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Yahoo News |
12:56pm PDT |
Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Putting pressure on congressional Democrats to back more exploration for oil, President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling that has stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congres |
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Yahoo News |
12:54pm PDT |
Student grifter pleads guilty in Pa. ID theft case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman pleaded guilty Monday in a brazen identity-theft scheme that she and her boyfriend used to fund exotic vacations and a lavish lifestyle. Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and her ex-boyfriend Edward Anderton, 25, face a minimum two years in prison after ad |
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ChristianPost |
12:53pm PDT |
Baptists Bring Comfort to Burma |
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Summary: The Baptist World Alliance announced this week that groups of its volunteers, in a special partnership with the Myanmar Baptist Convention, were steadily making headway in combating the ?huge unmet basic needs for the victims of the disaster? in Burma. |
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Yahoo News |
12:52pm PDT |
Obama camp: Satirical magazine cover 'tasteless'
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's campaign says a satirical New Yorker magazine cover showing the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist is "tasteless and offensive." |
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Yahoo News |
12:46pm PDT |
McCain and Obama clash over strategy in Iraq
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential foes John McCain and
Barack Obama clashed on Monday over the U.S. role in Iraq, with
McCain questioning his rival's judgment as Obama pushed for a
new strategy to boost troop levels in Afghanistan. |
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BBC News |
12:44pm PDT |
Smoke clouds close island airport |
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Summary: Jersey airport is closed after a series of explosions lead to a cloud of black smoke over the island. |
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BBC News |
12:42pm PDT |
500 fish perish in polluted river |
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Summary: More than 500 brown trout have been killed in a stretch of a County Antrim river after sewage flowed into it. |
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Yahoo News |
12:37pm PDT |
Ex-Prosecutor says he was put on terror watch list
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Justice Department's former top criminal prosecutor says the government's terror watch list likely has caused thousands of innocent Americans to be questioned, searched or otherwise hassled. Former Assistant Attorney General Jim Robinson would kn |
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Yahoo News |
12:19pm PDT |
Whoopi Goldberg to appear in 'Xanadu' on Broadway
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Whoopi Goldberg is going back to Broadway. Goldberg, a co-host on the ABC's "The View," announced on the air Monday that she will appear in the Tony-nominated roller-skating musical "Xanadu" as one of the show's evil sisters, Caliope. |
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Yahoo News |
12:17pm PDT |
IndyMac depositors line up for cash after seizure
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hundreds of worried
IndyMac Bancorp Inc customers descended on the company's
branches on Monday to withdraw their money, after regulators
seized what was once one of the largest mortgage lenders in the
United States. |
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Yahoo News |
12:13pm PDT |
NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket
(AP)
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Summary: AP - By day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative rocket that would be safer, cheaper and easi |
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Cnn.com |
12:06pm PDT |
Keep Manson follower in prison, DA urges |
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Yahoo News |
12:04pm PDT |
September 11 suspects may testify at Guantanamo trial
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Accused
September 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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Cnn.com |
11:56am PDT |
Missing soldier'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 |
11:42am PDT |
Bush lifts offshore drilling ban in symbolic move
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush lifted a
White House ban on offshore drilling on Monday to try to drive
down soaring energy prices, a largely symbolic move unlikely to
have any short-term impact on high gasoline costs. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42am PDT |
U.S. terrorism watch list tops 1 million
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. watch list of terrorism
suspects has passed 1 million records, corresponding to about
400,000 people, and a leading civil rights group said on Monday
the number was far too high to be effective. |
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Yahoo News |
11:38am PDT |
Fannie, Freddie shares sputter after US offers lifeline
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac struggled Monday after a near-meltdown last week, as investors mulled a weekend plan offering a government lifeline for the US mortgage finance giants. |
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Yahoo News |
11:30am PDT |
Bush trumps Congress; Moves first on drilling
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Putting pressure on congressional Democrats to back more exploration for oil, President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. |
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Yahoo News |
11:26am PDT |
Microsoft's Xbox 360 to stream Netflix movies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console will be able to stream thousands of movies over the Internet, thanks to a deal with Netflix. |
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ChristianPost |
11:25am PDT |
Life-Sized Jesus Statues to Debut on Sydney Streets |
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Summary: Life-sized Jesus Christ statues will go on display throughout the streets of Sydney, Australia, beginning Tuesday to coincide with the opening of World Youth Day. |
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Cnn.com |
11:22am PDT |
Foreign-owned Bud a wound to Americana |
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Summary: Philip McClary was grilling out at his home in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night when he heard hometown brewer Anheuser-Busch would be bought by the Belgian company InBev.
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BBC News |
11:07am PDT |
Bush lifts offshore drilling ban |
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Summary: President George W Bush lifts an executive ban on oil drilling in most US coastal waters, and urges Congress to follow suit. |
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ChristianPost |
10:56am PDT |
World's Former Only Hindu Country Opens to Christianity |
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Summary: The world?s former only official Hindu country is now open to the preaching of the Gospel, a Christian missionary working in the country shared this past weekend with joy. Formerly, Christians were reportedly arrested and imprisoned for preaching the Gosp |
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BBC News |
10:52am PDT |
Breakthrough baby - and IVF - celebrate turning 30 |
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Summary: Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, celebrates her 30th birthday. |
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BBC News |
10:52am PDT |
Birthday girl |
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Summary: Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, turns 30 |
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BBC News |
10:51am PDT |
Entomologists can't identify a bug in their own back garden |
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Summary: Experts at Natural History Museum can't identify bug in their own back garden |
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Cnn.com |
10:50am PDT |
Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling |
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Summary: President Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive ban on offshore oil drilling, the White House said.
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Yahoo News |
10:49am PDT |
Whoopi Goldberg to appear in `Xanadu' on Broadway
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Whoopi Goldberg is going back to Broadway. Goldberg, a co-host on the ABC's "The View," announced on the air Monday that she will appear in the Tony-nominated roller-skating musical "Xanadu" as one of the show's evil sisters, Caliope. |
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Yahoo News |
10:34am PDT |
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Sudan's Beshir for 'genocide'
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The International Criminal Court's top prosecutor Monday sought the arrest of Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. |
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BBC News |
10:27am PDT |
Shorts long-term future 'secure' |
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Summary: The biggest single investment in Northern Ireland will secure the long-term future of the aerospace firm Bombardier. |
