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BBC News |
1:34pm PDT |
Calzaghe postpones Roy Jones fight |
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Summary: A hand injury forces Joe Calzaghe to postpone his September super-fight with Roy Jones Jr. |
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BBC News |
1:31pm PDT |
Terror police detain disabled boy |
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Summary: A police officer is transferred from duties after a disabled child and his parents are detained under the Terrorism Act. |
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ChristianPost |
1:31pm PDT |
Pastor Gets into Motorcycle Crash - During Service |
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Summary: A pastor brought out a dirt bike during a church service to demonstrate the concept of unity. Now he's demonstrating the concept of healing. |
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Yahoo News |
1:30pm PDT |
Prosecutor: Missing Fla. girl may have been killed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors in Florida say the case of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl is beginning to look like a homicide. |
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Yahoo News |
1:25pm PDT |
Obama begins Mideast visit, vows to work for peace
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stepped into the thicket of Mideast politics Tuesday, declaring in Jordan that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are strong enough internally to make the bold concessions necessary for peace. |
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Yahoo News |
1:21pm PDT |
Fannie, Freddie rescue gets big price tag as House vote looms
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Bush administration plan to
support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost
U.S. taxpayers $25 billion, congressional analysts said on
Tuesday in a report that fueled debate as Congress took steps
to approve a housing market rescue package |
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Yahoo News |
1:19pm PDT |
Women on antidepressants may benefit from Viagra
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Viagra's effect in women has been disappointing, but a new small study finds those on antidepressants may benefit from taking the little blue pills. The research involving 98 premenopausal women found Viagra helped with orgasm. But the benefits did n |
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Yahoo News |
1:18pm PDT |
McCain may be zeroing in on a running mate
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Yet another town-hall meeting isn't doing the trick. Neither is dropping in on a former Republican president. So just what can John McCain do to draw attention away from his showy Democratic rival? Pick a running mate, perhaps. |
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Yahoo News |
1:16pm PDT |
Bush asked not to commute Marion Jones' sentence
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The new leader at USA Track and Field sent a letter to President Bush asking him to deny Marion Jones' request to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam. |
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BBC News |
1:14pm PDT |
Italian MPs approve immunity law |
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Summary: Italy's MPs gives their final backing to a controversial immunity bill put forward by Silvio Berlusconi's government. |
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BBC News |
12:56pm PDT |
'Spying' requests exceed 500,000 |
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Summary: More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data were made last year, a report says. |
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Cnn.com |
12:52pm PDT |
Reality check on wind power |
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Summary: High-profile personalities have been telling the nation to ditch that dirty fossil fuel and turn to renewable energy.
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Cnn.com |
12:52pm PDT |
Wind power: A reality check |
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Summary: High-profile personalities -- including Al Gore and billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens -- have been pushing for the U.S. to get more of its energy from renewable sources. The question is, are these plans realistic or just dreams? CNNMoney.com has the ans |
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BBC News |
12:51pm PDT |
Food crisis looms in East Africa |
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Summary: More than 14m people in the Horn of Africa are in need of food aid because of drought and rocketing food and fuel prices, the United Nations warns. |
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Cnn.com |
12:50pm PDT |
Dolly nears hurricane strength -- and Texas |
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Summary: Tropical Storm Dolly intensified early Tuesday in the western Gulf of Mexico, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center said.
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Yahoo News |
12:44pm PDT |
RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level
(AP)
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Summary: AP - State Police arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level allegedly was .491, more than six times the legal limit, which they believe is the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead. |
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Yahoo News |
12:41pm PDT |
Indian government wins confidence vote
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's government won a vote of confidence in parliament on
Tuesday, ensuring the survival of the ruling coalition and a
civilian nuclear deal with the United States. |
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Yahoo News |
12:33pm PDT |
Sharpton's lawyers say feds have dropped tax probe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal prosecutors have disbanded their criminal investigation into the financial dealings of the Rev. Al Sharpton and his Harlem civil rights group, the minister and his lawyers said Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:16pm PDT |
Officials fear Dolly could break Rio Grande levees
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Coastal officials worried Tuesday that Tropical Storm Dolly may bring so much rain that flooding could break through the levees holding back the Rio Grande. |
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ChristianPost |
12:07pm PDT |
Colo. Church Collects Signatures for School Prayer Initiative |
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Summary: Members of a church in Colorado are trying to collect enough signatures for a ballot initiative that asks schools to give students five minutes a day to pray or meditate. |
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Yahoo News |
12:02pm PDT |
Bulldozer in Jerusalem rampage before Obama visit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Palestinian rammed a bulldozer into
vehicles on a Jerusalem street on Tuesday before a visit by
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who
condemned the attack and pledged to push for a peace deal. |
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ChristianPost |
12:01pm PDT |
Gay 'Marriage' and Soft Despotism |
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Summary: In Michigan, a homosexual man is suing two Christian publishers?Zondervan and Tyndale House?for $70 million dollars. |
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Yahoo News |
12:01pm PDT |
Stocks higher as crude drops $4 a barrel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street traded modestly higher Tuesday as investors were encouraged by another sharp drop in oil prices and snapped up shares of undervalued financial companies. |
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Yahoo News |
12:00pm PDT |
Fannie, Freddie rescue estimate mounts
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Bush administration plan to rescue
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost U.S. taxpayers $25
billion, congressional budget analysts said on Tuesday as
Congress worked to complete sweeping housing market
legislation. |
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Cnn.com |
11:54am PDT |
'Batman' denies assaulting mom, sister |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
11:54am PDT |
Obama says he'll work for Mideast peace
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stepped into the thicket of Mideast politics Wednesday, declaring that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are strong enough internally to make the bold concessions necessary for peace. |
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BBC News |
11:49am PDT |
Dogs prompted McCanns police move |
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Summary: Portuguese police declared Kate and Gerry McCann as formal suspects in their daughter's disappearance on the reactions of sniffer dogs, a report reveals. |
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BBC News |
11:42am PDT |
Speaker aims for more women MPs |
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Summary: Commons Speaker Michael Martin is to hold a conference to find a way to get more women and ethnic minority MPs. |
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Yahoo News |
11:40am PDT |
AP IMPACT: Traffic deaths fall as gas prices climb
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago. |
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BBC News |
11:38am PDT |
Lesbos locals lose attempt to ban use of the term "lesbian" |
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Summary: Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos lose an attempt to ban the use of the word "lesbian" to describe gay women. |
