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11:20pm PDT |
Freed Betancourt set for medical after hero's welcome in France
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Summary: AFP - Freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt faced a day of medical tests in Paris Saturday after receiving a hero's welcome following her six-year hostage ordeal, as video footage was released of her dramatic rescue. |
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11:14pm PDT |
Man arrested over student murders |
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Summary: A man is arrested in connection with the murder of two French students who were stabbed and burned in a flat in London. |
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10:55pm PDT |
Twin fires raging along California's central coast
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Summary: AP - A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes. |
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10:53pm PDT |
Protesters rally ahead of G8 summit
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Summary: AFP - Thousands of activists and farmers from around the world gathered in northern Japan Saturday for a major protest ahead of next week's summit of the Group of Eight rich nations. |
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10:48pm PDT |
Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
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Summary: AP - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on |
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10:30pm PDT |
Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
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Summary: AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. |
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BBC News |
10:16pm PDT |
Protests ahead of Japan G8 summit |
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Summary: Protests begin on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido ahead of Monday's summit of the G8 nations. |
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10:11pm PDT |
U.S. marks Independence Day with fireworks, revelry
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Summary: AP - The nation's largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York's world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day of July Fourth celebrations nationwide. |
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10:03pm PDT |
Prevention is cure |
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Summary: How the NHS could do more to stop people getting ill |
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9:59pm PDT |
Film of Zimbabwe 'vote-rigging' |
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Summary: New evidence of vote-rigging in Zimbabwe's presidential election emerges in a secret film by a prison guard. |
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9:42pm PDT |
Big protest planned for Seoul against beef and Lee
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Summary: Reuters - South Korean police said they expect
about 35,000 to gather on Saturday for a protest against a U.S.
beef import deal and the polices of the new president, whose
government has faced a crisis due to the weeks of street
rallies. |
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9:40pm PDT |
Afghan official: US strikes kill 22 civilians
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military said airstrikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. The province's governor said 22 civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed. |
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9:17pm PDT |
UK shops 'misleading customers' |
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Summary: High street shop staff are fobbing off customers and giving misleading advice about rights, Which? says. |
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9:16pm PDT |
Jesse Helms: Polarizer, not a compromiser
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Summary: AP - "Compromise, hell!" Jesse Helms screamed in a 1959 editorial that captured what would become the legacy of his Senate career and his place in the conservative movement. |
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BBC News |
9:04pm PDT |
Synod set to debate women bishops |
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Summary: A senior cleric urges the Church of England Synod to resolve its dispute over ordaining women bishops. |
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9:04pm PDT |
Two fires raging along Calif.'s Central Coast
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Summary: AP - A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California's central coast Friday, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening a total of more than 4,500 homes. |
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8:43pm PDT |
Mayor Johnson 'misled' by deputy |
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Summary: London Mayor Boris Johnson says he was "misled" by his deputy, who has resigned amid allegations of financial irregularities. |
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Cnn.com |
8:29pm PDT |
Patriotism, fun mark Fourth of July |
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8:01pm PDT |
Sources: U.S. to block some food from Mexico |
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Summary: Starting Monday, health inspectors will halt the shipment of ingredients common to Mexican cuisine from Mexico to the United States, sources familiar with the salmonella poisoning investigation said.
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7:49pm PDT |
Hamlin holds off Busch to continue JGR dominance
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Summary: AP - Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart or Joey Logano. It doesn't matter who's behind the wheel of the No. 20 Toyota, it always seems to end up in Victory Lane. |
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Cnn.com |
7:46pm PDT |
Traditions, fun and solemn, mark July Fourth |
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7:45pm PDT |
8 dead as canoeists sucked into turbines |
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7:02pm PDT |
Freed hostage Betancourt set for medical after hero's welcome in France
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Summary: AFP - Freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt faced a day of medical tests in Paris Saturday after receiving a hero's welcome following her six-year hostage ordeal, as video footage was released of her dramatic rescue. |
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6:47pm PDT |
Bus swept into river, at least 29 dead |
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6:25pm PDT |
Man accused of faking heart attacks to avoid bills
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Summary: AP - A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares. |
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Cnn.com |
6:18pm PDT |
41-year-old swimmer qualifies for Olympics |
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6:17pm PDT |
Analysis: Obama's centrist emphasis gives GOP ammo
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Summary: AP - Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth? |
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Cnn.com |
6:09pm PDT |
Former death row inmate celebrates independence |
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Summary: The Fourth of July doesn't mean as much to Paul House as it used to, but he is looking forward to his mother's BBQ and fireworks. "They don't feed you too well in prison," he said Friday. House was released Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled that new |
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6:06pm PDT |
2 supervisors at raided meatpacking plant arrested
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Summary: AP - Two supervisors at an Iowa meatpacking plant that was raided by federal immigration agents in May were arrested and charged with encouraging people to live in the United States illegally. |
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6:04pm PDT |
Aghan official says US strikes killed 22 civilians
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military said airstrikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. The province's governor said 22 civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed. |