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Yahoo News |
10:21am PDT |
Cliff Lee, Ben Sheets to start All-Star game
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cliff Lee of the Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee ace Ben Sheets were picked as the starting pitchers for Tuesday night's All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. |
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Cnn.com |
10:17am PDT |
Fed takes on shady home loans |
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Summary: The Federal Reserve today unanimously approved new mortgage lending rules meant to crack down on shady practices -- particularly subprime loans made to borrowers with weak credit. The new rules will apply to all mortgage lenders.
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Yahoo News |
10:14am PDT |
Stocks decline as worries about financials persist
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks declined Monday as investors worried that even a safety net set up over the weekend for mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac couldn't head off further troubles in the financial markets. |
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BBC News |
10:07am PDT |
UN to withdraw staff from Darfur |
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Summary: The UN is to withdraw all non-essential staff from Darfur after Sudan's leader is accused of genocide, the BBC learns. |
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Yahoo News |
10:02am PDT |
U.S. pledge fails to lift cloud over Fannie, Freddie
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Buyers flocked to 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 panic on
Wall Street. |
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Yahoo News |
9:57am PDT |
IndyMac borrowers line up in California to withdraw their cash
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - IndyMac Bancorp Inc
customers lined up outside a branch at the company's
headquarters on Monday, hoping 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 |
9:48am PDT |
Magazine cover featuring Obamas draws criticism
(AP)
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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 |
9:41am PDT |
Afghanistan blames Pakistan for spike in attacks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday directly accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of being behind a recent series of attacks by extremist Islamic militants that have killed scores of people. |
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BBC News |
9:40am PDT |
Sats company faces bill for delay |
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Summary: England's exams watchdog plans legal action against the Sats company. |
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DJ Chuang |
9:33am PDT |
Isn?t it hard to go missional? |
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Summary: Helen Lee is working on a Leadership Journal article about the changes that have occurred in pastors’ mindsets about the Gospel and mission. She’s looking to hear from pastors who are gung-ho about transforming their churches (under 200 in siz |
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BBC News |
9:32am PDT |
Heart transplant toddler Zoe dies |
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Summary: A toddler who had a heart transplant last year dies a month before taking part in the British Transplant Games. |
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CTI News |
9:28am PDT |
Reel News: More 'Sex and the City?' |
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Summary: HBO has enthusiasm for making a sequel to the blockbuster film. Plus: A possible 'Sopranos' movie; 'Dark Knight' actors mourn Heath Ledger; Jon Favreau signs on for 'Iron Man 2'; del Toro talks religion and 'Hellboy 2'; updates from Lucasfilm, Walden Medi |
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CTI News |
9:28am PDT |
Poll: How important is your church's statement of faith to you? |
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Summary: Poll: How important is your church's statement of faith to you? |
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CTI News |
9:28am PDT |
EFCA Tweaks Statement of Faith |
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Summary: New EFCA statement of faith clarifies positions on controversial doctrines. |
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BBC News |
9:26am PDT |
Obama team decries cartoon image |
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Summary: Barack Obama's team voices outrage at a US magazine cover depicting him in Muslim dress and his wife as an armed terrorist. |
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BBC News |
9:26am PDT |
Obama team decry satirical image |
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Summary: Barack Obama's team voice outrage at a US magazine cover depicting him in Muslim dress and his wife as an armed terrorist. |
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Cnn.com |
9:22am PDT |
Russia sends warships to patrol in Arctic |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
9:21am PDT |
Obama camp calls New Yorker cover offensive |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has sharply criticized The New Yorker magazine over the publication's latest cover illustration, which appears to portray the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife as terrorist enemies of the United States.
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BBC News |
9:21am PDT |
Bail plan for illegal immigrants |
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Summary: Illegal immigrants will be able to pay a "bail bond" to avoid being sent to a detention centre, under Home Office plans. |
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BBC News |
9:18am PDT |
Station's cash machine targeted |
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Summary: Hundreds of people who have used a cash machine at Cardiff's main railway station are warned of a cloning device found on it. |
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Cnn.com |
9:16am PDT |
Heroic troops repel at least 100 in Afghan fight |
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Summary: Afghan authorities released further details Monday of the insurgent attack at an outpost in eastern Afghanistan which killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 others.
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BBC News |
9:14am PDT |
South Africa earn draw at Lord's |
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Summary: The first Test between England and South Africa at Lord's ends in a draw after the tourists close 47 runs ahead at 393-3. |
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Yahoo News |
9:12am PDT |
Mbeki to discuss Zimbabwe crisis with AU chairman
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - South African President Thabo
Mbeki and the African Union's top diplomat will meet on Friday
to discuss the political crisis in Zimbabwe, an Mbeki spokesman
said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
9:08am PDT |
Flintoff returns to England squad |
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Summary: Andrew Flintoff is recalled to the England squad for the second Test against South Africa. |
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Cnn.com |
9:07am PDT |
Families hope poker cards help solve cold cases |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
9:00am PDT |
TSA launches leak investigation |
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Summary: Federal officers charged with keeping terrorists off planes are now searching their own ranks for staff who told CNN that few flights were protected by air marshals. CNN learned of the TSA investigation from a former federal air marshal and Iraq war veter |
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Yahoo News |
8:59am PDT |
Bush to lift offshore drilling ban in symbolic move
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush plans
to lift a ban on offshore drilling on Monday to combat soaring
energy prices, a largely symbolic move unlikely to have any
short-term impact on the high cost of gasoline. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54am PDT |
Slow-moving Tropical Storm Bertha rakes Bermuda
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Bertha raked Bermuda with high winds on Monday while kicking up choppy surf along the East Coast of the United States. |
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ChristianToday |
8:52am PDT |
Brown says knifecarrying unacceptable |
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Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday people carrying knives would be caught prosecuted and punished as he defended the governments handling of knife crime following a spate of stabbing deaths |
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Cnn.com |
8:52am PDT |
Fed goes to war against shady home loans |
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Summary: The Federal Reserve today unanimously approved new mortgage lending rules meant to crack down on shady practices -- particularly subprime loans made to borrowers with weak credit. The new rules will apply to all mortgage lenders.
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