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Yahoo News |
12:51pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Cristobal forms off Southeast coast
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tropical Storm Cristobal formed off the Southeast coast Saturday, the first storm to threaten the U.S. this hurricane season, forecasters said. |
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BBC News |
12:49pm PDT |
Norman leads by two at Birkdale |
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Summary: Greg Norman will take a two-shot lead over defending champion Padraig Harrington and KJ Choi into the final round of the Open at Birkdale. |
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Yahoo News |
12:41pm PDT |
Norman in familiar spot at major, if it was 1996
(AP)
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Summary: AP - This sounds familiar: Greg Norman goes to the final round of a major with the lead. And, no, we're not talking about 1996. The 53-year-old, part-time golfer reclaimed a spot he used to know all too well in his prime, putting the Shark one more solid |
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Yahoo News |
12:14pm PDT |
Obama backs support in meeting with Afghan leaders
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met Saturday with officials of a region of Afghanistan that has been a hotbed of Taliban and al-Qaida activity, offering his support for reconstruction and security there and throughout the country, an o |
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Yahoo News |
11:55am PDT |
Tropical storm forms off U.S. East Coast
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Summary: Reuters - The third tropical storm of the 2008
Atlantic hurricane season, Cristobal, formed off the U.S. East
Coast on Saturday and gale-force winds and heavy rains were
expected to lash the Carolinas as the storm grazed the
shoreline on a northeaster |
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ChristianPost |
11:50am PDT |
$125K Donation to Protect Marriage Draws Boycott Calls, More Support |
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Summary: Pro-gay activists are calling for a boycott against two Southern California hotels after their owner donated $125,000 to support a ballot initiative to protect marriage in the state of California. |
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BBC News |
11:40am PDT |
Open day three as it happened |
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Summary: Veteran Greg Norman leads the field by two strokes after three rounds of the Open at Royal Birkdale. |
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Cnn.com |
11:35am PDT |
Woman's corpse may be link to mystery newborn |
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Summary: The body of a woman -- found at the apartment of a Pennsylvania woman who arrived at a hospital with a newborn infant earlier this week -- had been partially eviscerated and her uterus had been cut open, an autopsy found.
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Yahoo News |
11:31am PDT |
Iran nuclear talks stall, even with US at table
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A U.S. decision to bend policy and sit down with Iran at nuclear talks fizzled Saturday, with Iran stonewalling Washington and five other world powers on their call to freeze uranium enrichment. |
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Cnn.com |
11:29am PDT |
Tropical storm closes in on Carolinas |
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Summary: Winds in a tropical depression that formed late Friday near the Carolina coast were approaching tropical storm strength Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Yahoo News |
11:25am PDT |
Norman clings to lead at blustery British Open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tiger Woods and Kenny Perry couldn't have picked a better place to be on Saturday. Anywhere but Royal Birkdale. A fearsome wind sweeping off the Irish Sea turned the third round of the British Open into a test of survival, the only goal to limit the |
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Cnn.com |
11:17am PDT |
Woman's corpse may be link to mystery baby |
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Yahoo News |
11:02am PDT |
New tropical storm forms off U.S. East Coast
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The third tropical storm of the 2008
Atlantic hurricane season formed just off the U.S. East Coast
on Saturday and was moving in a northeasterly direction,
grazing the shoreline, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:47am PDT |
Library confrontation points up privacy dilemma
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on "Love That Dog" when police showed up. |
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BBC News |
10:46am PDT |
England toil after Prince century |
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Summary: Ashwell Prince and AB de Villiers guide South Africa to 322-4, a lead of 119 over England, on day two of the second Test. |
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Yahoo News |
10:46am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition may sign initial talks agreement
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's main opposition party could
sign an agreement as early as Monday to begin substantive talks
with President Robert Mugabe's party on ending a political
impasse that has worsened the country's already severe economic
crisis, opposit |
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BBC News |
10:44am PDT |
Brown in Basra |
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Summary: The PM meets UK troops stationed in Iraq |
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Yahoo News |
10:43am PDT |
As wars lengthen, toll on military families mounts
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help. |
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Yahoo News |
10:37am PDT |
Norman ties Choi on blustery day at British Open
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tiger Woods and Kenny Perry couldn't have picked a better place to be on Saturday. Anywhere but Royal Birkdale. A fearsome wind sweeping off the Irish Sea turned the third round of the British Open into a test of survival, the only goal to limit the |
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Yahoo News |
10:36am PDT |
Powers wield sanction threat after Iran stalemate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Major powers gave Iran two weeks to
answer calls to rein in its nuclear programme on Saturday or
face tougher sanctions after talks ended in stalemate despite
unprecedented U.S. participation. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31am PDT |
U.S. calls on Iran to choose nuclear negotiation
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The United States is calling on Iran to negotiate over its nuclear program, after diplomats agreed to resume talks in two weeks on suspending uranium enrichment. |
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DJ Chuang |
10:27am PDT |
Saturday Surprises: Tired is the new Fine |
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Summary: Bible App for iPhone powered by YouVersion, free at that; even if I don’t have an iPhone (yet?), it’s still very nice
Tired is the new Fine. I’m noticing that answers to “How are you?” is switching from “Fine.” to |
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Yahoo News |
10:22am PDT |
Obama in Afghanistan to tour war zone
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met Saturday with officials of a region of Afghanistan that has been a hotbed of Taliban and al-Qaida activity, offering his support for reconstruction and security there and throughout the country, an o |
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Yahoo News |
10:16am PDT |
Investigators begin work at site of crane collapse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal officials started their investigation Saturday in the collapse of one of the nation's largest mobile cranes, which toppled at a Houston oil refinery, killing four workers and injuring seven others. |
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ChristianPost |
10:14am PDT |
Anglican Head: God Doesn't Need Violent Protection |
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Summary: An eternal God does not need to be defended using human violence, said the Archbishop of Canterbury this week in response to a letter by Muslim leaders and scholars. Dr. Rowan Williams was referring to Christian-Muslim relations as he responded to a histo |
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ChristianPost |
9:58am PDT |
Fanning the Flames of Racism |
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Summary: Since racial hatred has animated some of the worst atrocities in history, one would think that an opportunity for nations to come together and seek solutions to racial tensions would be welcomed. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55am PDT |
Iran nuclear talks make 'insufficient' progress: Solana
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Attempts to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear programme have made "insufficient" progress, the EU's diplomatic chief Javier Solana said Saturday following high-level talks in Geneva. |
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Cnn.com |
9:47am PDT |
Rev. Moon hurt in copter crash, officials say |
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ChristianPost |
9:26am PDT |
More Methodists Support Clergy Performing Gay Weddings |
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Summary: More United Methodists are throwing their support behind clergy in California who want to perform same-sex "marriages" despite the denomination's stance that homosexual practice is "incompatible with Christian teaching." |
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Yahoo News |
9:15am PDT |
`Dark Knight' sets box office record with $66.4M
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Batman's joust with the Joker has set another box office record. |
