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Yahoo News |
2:21pm PDT |
Midnight stampede to 'The Dark Knight' sets record
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Summary: AP - Nothing dark about Batman's first night at the box office. "The Dark Knight" lit up cash registers during its midnight debut, stealing away with a record $18.5 million from 3,040 theaters, distributor Warner Bros. said Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:17pm PDT |
A new travel style for Washington VIPs? It's SLICC
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - They sound like first-rate in-flight
accommodations -- leather chairs, a 37-inch (94-cm) flat-screen
monitor, bed, couch, table -- all the comfort a traveling VIP
could want. |
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Yahoo News |
2:17pm PDT |
Packers prez backs GM, coach in Favre standoff
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy has restated his support for general manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy in their dealings with Brett Favre. |
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BBC News |
2:02pm PDT |
Aid workers seized in Afghanistan |
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Summary: A French aid organisation says two of its workers have been abducted in central Afghanistan. |
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Cnn.com |
1:59pm PDT |
Guilty plea expected in homicides-at-sea case |
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Summary: The charter boat was found drifting at sea -- empty, its four crew members missing. Nearby, authorities found two men in a dinghy. Now one of those men, Kirby Archer, will plead guilty to murder in order to avoid the death penalty, a relative of one of th |
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BBC News |
1:49pm PDT |
Elderly woman critically injured |
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Summary: A woman in her 70s is in a critical condition in hospital following a road traffic accident in County Armagh. |
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Yahoo News |
1:29pm PDT |
McCain, Obama hedge on costly new Marine One
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Summary: AP - John McCain and Barack Obama vow to reform the nation's defense procurement if elected president, yet each is unwilling to take a firm stand against the skyrocketing cost of a plum White House perk: the new Marine One helicopter. |
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Yahoo News |
1:28pm PDT |
Food fears linger even as tomato scare ends
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The tomato scare may be over, but it has taken a toll — it's cost the industry an estimated $100 million and left millions of people with a new wariness about the safety of everyday foods. |
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Yahoo News |
1:27pm PDT |
Mandela beams at grandchildren's 'Happy Birthday'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nelson Mandela sat beaming in a yellow armchair, his legs propped up on a large stool and covered with a pale yellow blanket. Ten grandchildren crowded around to serenade him with "Happy Birthday" and then smothered him with hugs and kisses. |
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Yahoo News |
1:27pm PDT |
Pa. woman claims she bought baby; Real mom sought
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Police searched Friday for the mother of a newborn brought into a hospital by a woman they say first claimed she had given birth, then said she had paid $1,000 for the child. Authorities are concerned that the infant's mother might be in danger or ne |
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Yahoo News |
1:26pm PDT |
Choi leads British Open; Norman a stroke behind
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Greg Norman turned back the clock. So did David Duval. And K.J. Choi found himself in a familiar position — leading the final group of the British Open heading to the weekend. |
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CTI News |
1:25pm PDT |
'Mamma Mia!' |
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Summary: The music of ABBA successfully translates to a musical about a girl trying to determine the identity of her father on her wedding day, but the film version is too campy in tone, too sloppy in execution, and too mixed in its messages. |
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CTI News |
1:25pm PDT |
'Space Chimps' |
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Summary: Some decent nostalgia for the early days of NASA and a tacky, cheap alien world make for an odd match in this underwhelming cartoon. |
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CTI News |
1:25pm PDT |
'The Dark Knight' |
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Summary: While perhaps a bit too ambitious, 'The Dark Knight' demonstrates great balance between story and spectacle--and touts an all-time classic villain performance. |
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CTI News |
1:25pm PDT |
End Times Ecology |
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Summary: We care for the environment precisely because God will create a new earth. |
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BBC News |
1:20pm PDT |
Cigar blunder Welsh minister quits job |
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Summary: Welsh Culture Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas resigns after claims he walked into a bar near the Welsh assembly carrying a lit cigar. |
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BBC News |
1:19pm PDT |
Coastguards strike over pay row |
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Summary: Coastguards at Scotland's five control centres walk out in the latest in a series of strikes over pay. |
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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
Hundreds of baby penguins found dead in Brazil
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:11pm PDT |
Judge threatens to delay bin Laden driver trial
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A military
judge threatened on Friday to delay the first Guantanamo Bay
war crimes trial if prosecutors can't arrange for defense
lawyers to question accused September 11 mastermind Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed and other possible witnesses. |
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Yahoo News |
1:08pm PDT |
U.S., Iraq to set "time horizon" on troop cuts
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush and Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed to set a "time
horizon" for reducing U.S. forces in Iraq, despite Bush's long
opposition to deadlines for troop withdrawals. |
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Cnn.com |
1:00pm PDT |
Big-band singer Jo Stafford dead at 90 |
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Yahoo News |
12:57pm PDT |
NY man loses prosthetic leg while skydiving
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An upstate New York man says he's still upbeat despite losing the same leg twice. Scott Listemann told the Poughkeepsie Journal that he laughs about losing his foot and lower leg "both the first time and the second time." |
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ChristianPost |
12:55pm PDT |
Thousands See Reenactment of Jesus' Crucifixion |
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Summary: A recreation of the crucifixion and last days of Jesus played out against the backdrop of some of the city's most famous landmarks Friday, as an actor playing Christ was strung upside down, dragged through the streets and eventually "nailed" to a cross. |
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BBC News |
12:50pm PDT |
Choi claims Open lead over Norman |
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Summary: South Korea's KJ Choi fires a second-round 67 to overhaul veteran Australian Greg Norman for a one-shot lead in the Open at Royal Birkdale. |
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Yahoo News |
12:32pm PDT |
Singer and radio star Jo Stafford dies at 90
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jo Stafford, the honey-voiced band singer who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records with her ballads and folks songs, has died. She was 90. |
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Cnn.com |
12:28pm PDT |
iReporters gush over 'The Dark Knight' |
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Summary: "The Dark Knight" opened early today to huge crowds, rave reviews and a box-office record for midnight premieres. I-Reporters are sharing their thoughts on the film and its late star, Heath Ledger. The movie is "a haunting experiment into the human psyche |
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Yahoo News |
12:23pm PDT |
Norman, Duval turn back clock at British Open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Greg Norman turned back the clock. So did David Duval. And K.J. Choi found himself in a familiar position — playing in the final group of the British Open heading to the weekend. |
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BBC News |
12:16pm PDT |
Cigar blunder minister quits job |
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Summary: Welsh Culture Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas resigns after claims he walked into a bar near the Welsh assembly carrying a lit cigar. |
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ChristianPost |
12:11pm PDT |
Major Interfaith Conference Urges Anti-Terrorism Pact |
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Summary: Religious leaders at the historic Saudi-organized interfaith conference that ended Friday called for an international pact to combat terrorism. They asked the U.N. General Assembly to call a special session to help foster dialogue between ?followers of re |
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BBC News |
12:07pm PDT |
Cern lab goes 'colder than space' |
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Summary: A giant physics lab on the Swiss-French border is being cooled to a temperature lower than that of outer space. |
