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Cnn.com |
3:11pm PDT |
Obama to stress responsibility in NAACP speech |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama's speech Monday night to the NAACP will mark a historic first: an African-American presidential nominee of a major party will be addressing the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
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Cnn.com |
3:11pm PDT |
Obama stresses responsibility in NAACP speech |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama's speech Monday night to the NAACP will mark a historic first: an African-American presidential nominee of a major party will be addressing the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
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Cnn.com |
3:03pm PDT |
Missing GI's husband charged with murder |
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Summary: The Marine husband of a female Fort Bragg soldier was charged with murder today and another Marine was charged with aiding the crime, a local police chief in North Carolina said. The charred remains of Holley Wimunc were recently found in some woods, auth |
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Yahoo News |
3:00pm PDT |
Sleep deprivation raised in bin Laden driver case
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A
newly-released document suggests Osama bin Laden's former
driver may have been subjected to 50 days of sleep deprivation
at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba, the prisoner's defense
lawyers said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
3:00pm PDT |
Council puts £500,000 value on 300-year-old oak tree |
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Summary: A tree worth £500,000 is found in Surrey after the introduction of a new valuation system. |
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BBC News |
2:59pm PDT |
Commons apology over bomb claims |
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Summary: Security Minister Paul Goggins apologises for false claims made by officials in 1971 over the McGurk's Bar bombing. |
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BBC News |
2:57pm PDT |
Fire cancels flights into island |
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Summary: Flights into Jersey airport are cancelled when a smoke cloud from a hotel fire drifts across the approach to the airport. |
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Yahoo News |
2:47pm PDT |
Dead Army nurse's husband charged with murder
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The husband of a Fort Bragg Army nurse whose remains were found amid a brush fire was charged Monday with first-degree murder and a fellow Marine was charged with being an accomplice. |
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ChristianPost |
2:45pm PDT |
NFL Draft Pick Promotes Christian Charity in Liberia |
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Summary: Newly drafted Washington Redskins receiver Malcolm Kelly returned this week from his first trip to Liberia as an official promoter of the Christian charity Mercy Ships. |
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Yahoo News |
2:44pm PDT |
Cancer forces Tasmanian devils to breed earlier
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The little devils just can't wait. Faced with an epidemic of cancer that cuts their lives short, Tasmanian devils have begun breeding at younger ages, according to researchers at the University of Tasmania in Australia. |
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Yahoo News |
2:43pm PDT |
Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman end romance
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday. "Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment," Kimmel's spokesman Lewis Kay told The Associated Press, confirming the split that was first reported on Vanity Fair magazine's W |
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Yahoo News |
2:37pm PDT |
Brett Favre: Packers should let me play elsewhere
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brett Favre finally is speaking for himself: He wants to play but doesn't feel welcome in Green Bay, so he's asking to be released. The quarterback's first substantial comments on his latest retirement decision reversal come in an interview with Fox |
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BBC News |
2:27pm PDT |
Aston Villa make move for Bentley |
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Summary: Blackburn boss Paul Ince says Aston Villa have lodged on offer for midfielder David Bentley. |
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ChristianPost |
2:27pm PDT |
S.C. Pastor Back Home After Jail Odyssey in Russia |
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Summary: The Rev. Phillip Miles thought he had the perfect gift when he decided to buy some hunting rifle ammunition for a fellow pastor he would visit. He had already picked out lotion and jewelry for the man's wife and was proud of thinking of something for the |
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ChristianPost |
2:05pm PDT |
'Summer of Hope' Outreach Targets Native American Youth |
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Summary: Thousands of Native American youth in the United States and Canada are expected to have the opportunity to respond to Jesus this summer during the Summer of Hope 2008 tour. |
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Yahoo News |
2:04pm PDT |
Favre: Pack should let me play elsewhere
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brett Favre finally is speaking for himself: He wants to play but doesn't feel welcome in Green Bay, so he's asking to be released. |
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BBC News |
1:52pm PDT |
Mexican cartels 'threaten state' |
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Summary: The head of Mexico's intelligence service says drug cartels are threatening the country's democracy. |
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Yahoo News |
1:48pm PDT |
Pledge fails to lift cloud over Fannie, Freddie
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Buyers showed no hesitation in bidding
on Freddie Mac's $3 billion debt sale on Monday, just hours
after the U.S. government pledged support for the nation's top
mortgage finance agencies, but the steps failed to stem growing
alarm on Wall S |
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ChristianToday |
1:43pm PDT |
Nepal finally opening up to Gospel says GFA missionary |
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Summary: The worlds former only official Hindu country is now open to the preaching of the Gospel a Christian missionary working there declared joyfully this past weekend |
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Yahoo News |
1:38pm PDT |
Grandmother, 77, pins down rabid fox that bit her
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 77-year-old grandmother was recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her and held it until help arrived. Avis Blakeslee was attacked as she tended to her petunias outside her Stroudsburg farmhouse. |
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Yahoo News |
1:27pm PDT |
Sept. 11 suspects may testify at Guantanamo trial
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Accused
Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and some of his
co-defendants may have relevant evidence to offer as defense
witnesses for Osama bin Laden's former chauffeur at the
Guantanamo war court, a military judge said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
1:25pm PDT |
UN pulls back staff from Darfur |
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Summary: The UN is to relocate non-essential staff from Darfur after violence and genocide allegations against Sudan's leader. |
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Yahoo News |
1:25pm PDT |
Outraged Icahn refocuses on ousting Yahoo board
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft Corp. was angrily rejected. |
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Yahoo News |
1:24pm PDT |
FAA re-evaluates JFK runway procedures
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Federal Aviation Administration is studying whether to again change takeoff and landing procedures at John F. Kennedy International Airport after a second near-collision of aircraft in less than a week. |
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Yahoo News |
1:13pm PDT |
Student grifter admits $116K fraud in Pa. ID theft
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 22-year-old woman will probably face six years in prison after admitting Monday that she and her boyfriend pulled off a brazen identity-theft scheme that funded trips, fancy dinners and expensive salon visits. |
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Yahoo News |
1:10pm PDT |
3 plead to charges in plot that changed air travel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a case that changed the face of air travel, three men charged with a plot to kill trans-Atlantic airline passengers with bombs in soda bottles admitted Monday they intended to cause explosions. |
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Yahoo News |
1:10pm PDT |
Dubai detains 79 for indecent behavior on beaches
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Westerners were getting too racy on the beaches of this Persian Gulf tourist haven, and a police crackdown on topless sunbathing, nudity and other indecent behavior has resulted in 79 arrests in recent days. |
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BBC News |
1:09pm PDT |
Two arrested over stabbing death |
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Summary: Two people are arrested in connection with the killing of an 18-year-old at a bedsit in north London. |
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Cnn.com |
1:03pm PDT |
Foreign-owned Bud? Has bad aftertaste, fans say |
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Summary: News that American brewer Anheuser-Busch -- the maker of Budweiser -- would be bought by a Belgian company has left some Bud lovers sobbing in their suds. One angry Bud fan even wrote a song about it. But a beer expert says the resistance, while expected, |
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Cnn.com |
1:03pm PDT |
Foreign-owned Bud? Hard to swallow, fans say |
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Summary: News that American brewer Anheuser-Busch -- the maker of Budweiser -- would be bought by a Belgian company has left some Bud lovers sobbing in their suds. One angry Bud fan even wrote a song about it. One beer expert says the resistance is to be expected |
