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7:45pm PDT |
Pressure mounts over school tests |
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Summary: Pressure is set to increase on an US company over delays in marking thousands of school tests. |
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Yahoo News |
7:35pm PDT |
AP source: Yankees reach deal with Richie Sexson
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Summary: AP - First baseman Richie Sexson and the New York Yankees reached a deal Thursday, a week after the Seattle Mariners cut the slumping slugger. A person familiar with the contract said Sexson would be paid a prorated share of the $390,000 minimum salary. T |
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7:34pm PDT |
Pope says Christian unity efforts at 'critical juncture'
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Summary: AFP - Efforts to promote unity within different denominations of the Christian faith are at a "critical juncture", Pope Benedict XVI told other Christian leaders in Australia Friday. |
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7:07pm PDT |
Gore challenges US to ditch oil |
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Summary: Nobel Laureate Gore urges Americans to abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade. |
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Yahoo News |
7:05pm PDT |
Tributes pour in as Mandela marks his 90th birthday
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Summary: AFP - Nelson Mandela, the icon of the anti-apartheid movement and South Africa's first black president, was marking his 90th birthday Friday as tributes poured in from around the world. |
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6:51pm PDT |
Mediate in 3-way tie for the lead at British Open
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Summary: AP - From sunny San Diego to bleak and blustery Royal Birkdale, the expression on Rocco Mediate's face didn't change. |
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Yahoo News |
6:38pm PDT |
Got a brand new bag? James Brown items auctioned
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Summary: AP - James Brown mementoes ranging from his signature capes to a medical bracelet fetched thousands of dollars Thursday at an auction, which the soul icon's children protested. |
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BBC News |
6:37pm PDT |
James Brown's 'relics' auctioned |
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Summary: Jumpsuits and stage capes belonging to late singer James Brown raise $800,000 at auction in New York. |
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6:37pm PDT |
Taxman feels good as James Brown memorabilia sold |
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Summary: Jumpsuits and stage capes belonging to late singer James Brown raise $800,000 at auction in New York. |
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BBC News |
6:25pm PDT |
Hospitals 'could aid crime fight' |
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Summary: Hospitals should share information with police when patients are admitted because of a violent attack, a crime expert says. |
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Cnn.com |
6:21pm PDT |
Sewage plant may be named for Bush |
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Cnn.com |
6:21pm PDT |
S.F. to vote on naming sewage plant for Bush |
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Yahoo News |
6:07pm PDT |
Chertoff: European terrorists trying to enter US
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Summary: AP - European terrorists are trying to enter the United States with European Union passports, and there is no guarantee officials will catch them every time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
5:56pm PDT |
Public heart shock scheme success |
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Summary: A scheme to provide defibrillators in public places in England and Wales should be extended, researchers say. |
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5:56pm PDT |
Defibrillators scheme hailed success |
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Summary: A scheme to provide defibrillators in public places in England and Wales should be extended, researchers say. |
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BBC News |
5:56pm PDT |
Defibrillators scheme 'saved 132 lives' |
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Summary: A scheme to provide defibrillators in public places in England and Wales should be extended, researchers say. |
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Yahoo News |
5:56pm PDT |
Regulators lift tomato Salmonella warning
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. regulators on Thursday lifted
a warning on tomatoes and repeated a warning on peppers as the
possible cause of an outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul in which
more than 1,200 people have reported getting sick. |
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BBC News |
5:56pm PDT |
Ex-soldiers 'struggle on leaving' |
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Summary: Service personnel leaving the forces after just a few years settle into civilian life less well than those of many years' service, MPs find. |
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Yahoo News |
5:52pm PDT |
AP Source: Yankees reach deal with Richie Sexson
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Summary: AP - First baseman Richie Sexson and the New York Yankees reached a deal Thursday, a week after the Seattle Mariners cut the slumping slugger. A person familiar with the contract said Sexson would be paid a prorated share of the $390,000 minimum salary. T |
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ChristianPost |
5:33pm PDT |
Historic Chicago Church Secures $1M from State 30 Months After Promise |
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Summary: Thirty months after a promise was made by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Baptist church in Chicago finally received the $1 million it had been waiting for to rebuild a burnt-out building in place of a historic Chicago landmark. |
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5:23pm PDT |
Spread the word |
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Summary: The performers promoting a love of language |
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Cnn.com |
5:22pm PDT |
Former G-man, 101, helps FBI mark 100 years |
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Summary: Only one of the nearly 2,000 guests who attended the FBI's 100th birthday party Thursday was alive when a handful of investigators formed what was to become the world's premier law enforcement agency.
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Cnn.com |
5:02pm PDT |
Plan to send refugees to Sudan draws protest |
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Summary: Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may accept a U.N. offer to go to Sudan, a country widely condemned for atrocities and genocide in its Darfur region.
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4:42pm PDT |
Ga. Pro-Lifers Encouraged by County's Support of 'Personhood Amendment' |
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Summary: Georgia pro-lifers were encouraged Tuesday after residents of the state?s fastest growing county voted overwhelmingly in support of an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution that would grant the paramount right to life to ?each human being from the m |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PDT |
Bush surveys record-breaking Calif. wildfires
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Summary: AP - President Bush offered federal help and encouragement Thursday to some of the 25,000 firefighters working under a blazing sun to contain wildfires that make up the single largest fire event ever recorded in California. |
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Yahoo News |
4:27pm PDT |
Yankees reach deal with Richie Sexson, AP source says
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Summary: AP - First baseman Richie Sexson and the New York Yankees reached a deal Thursday, a week after the Seattle Mariners cut the slumping slugger. A person familiar with the contract said Sexson would be paid a prorated share of the $390,000 minimum salary. T |
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BBC News |
4:24pm PDT |
By-election vote pitch continues |
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Summary: Political parties continue their campaigning for the Glasgow East by-election, with just over a week to go to voting. |
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Cnn.com |
4:23pm PDT |
Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure' |
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Summary: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called President Bush "a total failure" -- among the California Democrat's harshest assessments to date of the president.
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BBC News |
4:22pm PDT |
Gas bills 'to top £1,000 a year' |
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Summary: Energy bills could rise by more than 60% within the next few years, the UK's biggest domestic energy supplier warns. |
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Yahoo News |
4:20pm PDT |
Dennis Farina pleads no contest to gun charge
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Summary: AP - Dennis Farina may be able to carry a gun on-screen, but he won't be able to own one in California for several months. |
