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BBC News |
4:09pm PDT |
Treasury may relax fiscal rules |
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Summary: Officials in the Treasury are looking at ways of relaxing Gordon Brown's so called fiscal rules on government finances. |
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Cnn.com |
4:09pm PDT |
Pelosi says 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 |
3:55pm PDT |
EU plans to block aid to Bulgaria |
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Summary: The European Commission plans to block almost $1bn in funds for Bulgaria as penalty for failing to beat corruption. |
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Yahoo News |
3:37pm PDT |
McCain says Obama Europe trip amounts to politics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential
candidate John McCain said on Thursday he believes Democrat
Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Europe is tantamount to holding
political rallies abroad. |
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Yahoo News |
3:33pm PDT |
Nazi-hunter says he's closing in on 'Dr. Death'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chil |
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Yahoo News |
3:28pm PDT |
House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush has been a "total failure" in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing |
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Yahoo News |
3:26pm PDT |
Afraid of laundry? You will be after reading this
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Mara Ranger will be a little paranoid doing laundry now. When she was removing clothes from the washing machine at her Maine farmhouse Wednesday, the clothes moved. She told WMTW-TV, "I jumped back" and saw a snake. She quickly shut the lid and calle |
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Yahoo News |
3:14pm PDT |
Judge clears way for first Guantanamo Bay trial
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. can begin trying Osama bin Laden's former driver next week at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a federal judge ruled Thursday, rejecting the defendant's plea to halt the historic first trial in the military system set up following the Sept. 11 terror |
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BBC News |
3:14pm PDT |
EU hits Intel with fresh charges |
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Summary: European regulators file new charges against chip maker Intel over alleged abuse of its dominant market position. |
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Cnn.com |
3:06pm PDT |
Fattest U.S. states named |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
3:06pm PDT |
CDC: Who's the fattest of them all? Southerners |
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Yahoo News |
3:01pm PDT |
AP Source: Yankees reach deal with Sexson
(AP)
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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 |
2:57pm PDT |
Youth killed in stabbing attack |
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Summary: A youth dies after being stabbed at a property in south-west London, Scotland Yard says. |
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Yahoo News |
2:57pm PDT |
Bin Laden driver headed for trial at Guantanamo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Yemeni
likely to be the first person tried before the U.S. war crimes
court at Guantanamo naval base was more than just a driver for
Osama bin Laden, U.S. agents said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
2:43pm PDT |
Shotgun fired by cash van robbers |
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Summary: A shot is fired by armed robbers who made off with up to 100,000 euro from a cash-in-transit guard in Dublin. |
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Cnn.com |
2:38pm PDT |
FBI seeks new clues into 'diabolical' killing |
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Summary: Men burst into Frank Morris' shoe-repair store, doused it in gas and set it ablaze -- what the FBI called a "diabolical act." Morris died of burns a few days later, but no one has ever been charged in the 1964 killing. One man recently broke years of sile |
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Yahoo News |
2:34pm PDT |
Bush warned he might send troops to Darfur: Wade
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Senegal's president said on Thursday
George W. Bush told African leaders at one stage the United
States might send troops to Sudan's Darfur if they did not act
to halt what he saw as genocide there. |
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ChristianPost |
2:32pm PDT |
Northern Calif. Evangelical College Announces $25M Expansion |
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Summary: William Jessup University, an evangelical Christian college near Sacramento, announced on Wednesday a $25 million campus expansion that will double the amount of on-campus student housing, create a banquet facility to accommodate nearly 800 people, and ad |
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BBC News |
2:26pm PDT |
Teenager dies in stabbing attack |
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Summary: A teenager dies after being stabbed at a property in south-west London, Scotland Yard says. |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PDT |
U.S. plans peace talks with Israelis, Palestinians
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
plans to host peace talks in Washington with Israeli and
Palestinian negotiators on July 30, Palestinian negotiator Saeb
Erekat said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
2:25pm PDT |
Army chief welcomes troop support |
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Summary: The head of the Army, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt, welcomes moves by ministers to increase support for soldiers and their families. |
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Cnn.com |
2:20pm PDT |
Merrill Lynch reports $4.9 billion loss |
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Summary: Merrill Lynch booked its fourth-straight quarterly loss Thursday, this time losing nearly $5 billion, as the nation's largest brokerage was forced to once again take massive writedowns.
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Yahoo News |
2:16pm PDT |
Ashcroft: 'Not hard' to reject interrogation memos
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday disavowed the now-defunct legal reasoning used to justify harshly questioning terrorism suspects, but dug in his heels to defend White House officials who pressured him while he was hospitalized four |
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BBC News |
2:09pm PDT |
Ronaldinho excited by Milan move |
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Summary: Ronaldinho says he is fully fit and ready to return to his best after completing his move to AC Milan. |
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ChristianPost |
1:56pm PDT |
1 in 4 Students Drop Out of Calif. Public High Schools |
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Summary: Nearly one in four public high school students in California dropped out in the 2006-07 school year, according to figures released Wednesday by the state Department of Education. |
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Yahoo News |
1:55pm PDT |
Obama raises $52M in June, setting torrid new pace
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Though he's raking in the cash so far, Barack Obama's decision to forgo public funds for the fall campaign means he must keep up his torrid pace — a tall order that will tax his time, test his Internet support and require the help of Democratic donor |
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Cnn.com |
1:43pm PDT |
Fans stay up all 'Knight' for Batman movie |
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Summary: In "The Dark Knight," crusading District Attorney Harvey Dent -- battling Gotham City's crime spree -- quotes the old saying: "The night is always darkest before the dawn." But dawn may be the brightest time for "The Dark Knight," which had about 3,000 la |
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Cnn.com |
1:43pm PDT |
Fans ready to stay up all 'Knight' for Batman movie |
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Summary: In "The Dark Knight," crusading District Attorney Harvey Dent -- battling Gotham City's crime spree -- quotes the old saying: "The night is always darkest before the dawn." But the dawn may be the brightest time for "The Dark Knight," which is scheduled t |
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Cnn.com |
1:42pm PDT |
FBI seeks new clues into 'diabolical' killing from '64 |
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Summary: Men burst into Frank Morris' shoe-repair store, doused it in gas and set it ablaze -- what the FBI called a "diabolical act." Morris died of burns a few days later, but no one has ever been charged in the 1964 killing. One man recently broke years of sile |
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BBC News |
1:22pm PDT |
Warrant out for no-show Doherty |
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Summary: A warrant is issued for the arrest of musician Pete Doherty after he fails to attend a court appearance in Somerset. |
