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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
Obama presses Europe on Afghanistan in Berlin
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama
urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilizing
Afghanistan in a speech to over 200,000 in Berlin that stressed
the need for unity in the face of new threats. |
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Cnn.com |
1:15pm PDT |
Top secret torture memo released |
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Summary: The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they "have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," according to a previously secret Justice Dep |
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Cnn.com |
1:12pm PDT |
Gay Iraqi says 'dirty animals' raped his |
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Summary: Kamal was just 16 when gunmen grabbed him off the streets of Baghdad, stuffed him in the trunk of a car and whisked him away to a house. But the real terror was about to begin -- when the men learned he was gay: "They told me to take off my clothes to rap |
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Cnn.com |
1:12pm PDT |
Gay Iraqi says 'dirty animals' raped him |
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Summary: Kamal was just 16 when gunmen grabbed him off the streets of Baghdad, stuffed him in the trunk of a car and whisked him away to a house. But the real terror was about to begin -- when the men learned he was gay: "They told me to take off my clothes to rap |
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1:11pm PDT |
Texas officials urge residents to stay home
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents across south Texas slogged through knee-deep muddy waters, tiptoed around downed power lines and dug through debris Thursday, but were thankful that Hurricane Dolly didn't pack the wallop they had feared. |
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BBC News |
1:04pm PDT |
Murray through to face Djokovic |
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Summary: Andy Murray beats Stanislas Wawrinka to set up a Toronto Masters quarter-final against Novak Djokovic. |
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Cnn.com |
12:58pm PDT |
Commentary: Prisons hunger for blacks |
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Summary: Whenever the segment featuring me and my imprisoned brother, Everett, from Soledad O'Brien's searing CNN special "Black in America" airs nationally, I invariably receive an e-mail, call or comment from a black person saying our story is their story.
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Cnn.com |
12:56pm PDT |
Mavs owner among finalists to buy Cubs |
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Yahoo News |
12:47pm PDT |
US fentanyl deaths topped 1,000 over 2 years
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Summary: AP - More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported Thursday in its first national tally of those deaths. |
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Yahoo News |
12:45pm PDT |
Okla. crane fall kills man watching construction
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Church members watching the steeple being raised on their new building looked on in horror Thursday as a crane holding the structure toppled, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who had been watching from inside the vehicle, firefighters sa |
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BBC News |
12:43pm PDT |
Man drowns during family holiday |
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Summary: A man dies and another person, believed to be his son, is airlifted to hospital after being rescued from the sea in Devon. |
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12:40pm PDT |
GOP kills effort to release oil from US stockpile
(AP)
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Summary: AP - House Republicans on Thursday scuttled a bill that Democrats hoped would help lower gasoline prices by forcing the Energy Department to release 70 million barrels of oil — about a three-day supply — from the national stockpile. |
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Yahoo News |
12:29pm PDT |
Obama draws crowd of 200,000 in Berlin
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama Thursday told a vast crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin that Americans and Europeans must tear down walls between estranged allies, races and faiths, in a soaring challenge to a new political generation. |
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12:28pm PDT |
McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday — at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted that he was happy to devote his time this week to touring the nation's heartland. |
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Yahoo News |
12:27pm PDT |
Delgado lifts Mets over Phillies 3-1, into first
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Carlos Delgado hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning and Oliver Perez stifled the Philadelphia Phillies again, helping the New York Mets earn a 3-1 win Thursday that gave them sole possession of first place in the NL East. |
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12:22pm PDT |
Rapper DMX pleads not guilty to felony charges
(AP)
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Summary: AP - DMX rapped for reporters outside a Phoenix courtroom after pleading not guilty to felony charges of theft and identity theft. Then he plugged his new album. |
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12:21pm PDT |
Okla. Crane Fall Kills Man Watching Steeple Installation |
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Summary: A crane holding a church steeple toppled Thursday morning, crushing a car and killing an 80-year-old man who was watching the construction from inside the vehicle, firefighters said. The accident happened in the parking lot of a new church being built in |
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BBC News |
12:18pm PDT |
Obama seeks stronger Europe ties |
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Summary: Barack Obama tells Berliners the US and Europe have drifted apart and it is time for them to come together again. |
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Yahoo News |
12:17pm PDT |
Peacock hitches ride with pair along Pa. roadway
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Picking up hitchhikers can be risky, but this one in northeast Pennsylvania was a bird of a different feather. Jerry Dimick and a friend were driving along Route 307 near Clarks Summit on Wednesday when they spotted a peacock standing by the edge of |
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Yahoo News |
12:10pm PDT |
Dow briefly falls 2 percent as financials, Boeing drag
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Stocks added to losses on Thursday,
with the Dow industrials briefly falling more than 2 percent,
as financial stocks sold off on renewed housing concerns
triggered by a higher-than-expected drop in sales of existing
U.S. homes. |
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Yahoo News |
12:09pm PDT |
House rejects bill to sell oil from reserve
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives
rejected legislation on Thursday to sell 70 million of barrels
of light, sweet crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and
replace it with heavy, sour crude. |
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Cnn.com |
12:07pm PDT |
In Germany, Obama calls for world to stand as one |
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Summary: Standing before a massive crowd in Berlin, a city that once symbolized division, Sen. Barack Obama today warned about the dangers of allowing new walls to come between the U.S. and its allies. Obama said people of all nations must stand together to face c |
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Cnn.com |
11:34am PDT |
Girls found equal to boys in math skills |
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11:24am PDT |
Karzai 'impeding Afghan drug war' |
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Summary: An ex-US narcotics official accuses President Hamid Karzai of obstructing efforts to tackle the Afghan drugs trade. |
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Yahoo News |
11:15am PDT |
South Texas begins cleanup after Hurricane Dolly
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents across south Texas slogged through knee-deep muddy waters, tiptoed around downed power lines and dug through debris Thursday, but were thankful that Hurricane Dolly didn't pack the wallop they had feared. |
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Yahoo News |
11:10am PDT |
Obama delivers soaring call for unity in Berlin
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama Thursday challenged a new generation of Americans and Europeans to tear down walls between estranged allies, races, and faiths in a soaring call for global unity at an unprecedented mass campaign rally in Berlin. |
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BBC News |
11:06am PDT |
Zuma 'shocked by white poverty' |
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Summary: The head of South Africa's governing ANC party, Jacob Zuma, says he is shocked by white poverty in the country. |
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Yahoo News |
11:05am PDT |
Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th. The r |
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Yahoo News |
10:58am PDT |
Bin Laden driver was not read rights, court told
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Osama bin
Laden's driver was not told of any rights against
self-incrimination under years of interrogation, FBI agents
told the Guantanamo war crimes court on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:56am PDT |
White House threatens veto on bill to sell govt oil
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The White House on Thursday
threatened to veto legislation that would require the
government to sell 10 percent of the oil in the nation's
emergency petroleum stockpile. |
