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Cnn.com |
9:02am PDT |
Nation's bridges, roads still 'structurally deficient' |
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Summary: With a fractured spine and all of her leg bones shattered, Mercedes Gorden knows she is one of the lucky ones -- she's a survivor of the Minnesota bridge collapse. One year after the tragedy, many Americans wonder if their bridges and highways are any saf |
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Yahoo News |
8:52am PDT |
Americans roll to basketball win over Lithuania
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Summary: AP - Kobe Bryant harassed longtime nemesis Sarunas Jasikevicius into a miserable night and helped the U.S. Olympic basketball team roll to a 120-84 exhibition victory over Lithuania on Friday night. |
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BBC News |
8:47am PDT |
Gas price rises |
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Summary: How your fuel bill depends on where you live in UK |
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Yahoo News |
8:45am PDT |
Economic models predict clear Obama win in November
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Summary: Reuters - It really is the economy, stupid!
Economic models that have correctly predicted the winner of
almost all post-war U.S. presidential elections say recession
fears will secure a victory for Barack Obama in November. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38am PDT |
Lawmakers head home after impasse on gas prices
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lawmakers sped for the exits Friday as Congress was to begin a five-week recess after a summer session noteworthy for bitter partisanship and paralysis on the issue topmost in the minds of many voters: the cost of gasoline. |
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Yahoo News |
8:35am PDT |
McCain criticizes Obama over education policies
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is warning an influential black organization that rival Barack Obama's ideas are not always as impressive as his rhetoric. |
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BBC News |
8:29am PDT |
Beheaded Canada bus man 'named' |
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Summary: A young man beheaded in a savage knife attack on a Canadian bus is identified as a "bubbly" 22-year-old by friends online. |
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Cnn.com |
8:29am PDT |
Hunt nabs suspect in swimmer deaths |
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Yahoo News |
8:28am PDT |
Five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan: ISAF
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Bomb blasts killed five NATO soldiers in Afghanistan on Friday, the alliance force said, in the latest in a surge of extremist attacks that have raised alarm about deteriorating security. |
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ChristianToday |
8:19am PDT |
Working a miracle with the Philippines shanty children |
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Summary: Twentythree million people live below the poverty line in the Philippines and the poorest of them in shanty houses made of scrap material It is here that Siloam is changing the lives of neglected children one at a time |
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Yahoo News |
8:11am PDT |
Siberian Russians marvel at solar eclipse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An enormous swath of western Siberia was submerged in darkness Friday afternoon as the moon completely blocked the sun, enrapturing huge crowds of Russians and foreign tourists. |
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Cnn.com |
8:09am PDT |
5 NATO-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan |
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Summary: Five NATO-led soldiers were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, military officials said.
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Yahoo News |
8:09am PDT |
No verdict in London July 7 bombing case
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A jury failed to reach a verdict on
Friday in the trial of three Britons accused of helping to plot
suicide bombings in London in July 2005, the capital's worst
peacetime attack which left 52 dead. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09am PDT |
People mag snags US rights to Jolie-Pitt twin pix
(AP)
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Summary: AP - People magazine has scored the U.S. rights to exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins, a representative for the magazine told The Associated Press on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:07am PDT |
Obama calls for tax rebates to pay energy costs
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama proposed a package of
measures on Friday to help workers fight rising energy costs,
including an immediate $1,000 tax rebate for low- and
middle-income families. |
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Cnn.com |
7:54am PDT |
Pakistan denies 'hellacious' bomb charge |
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Summary: Pakistan on Friday strongly denounced a report that the country's spy service helped plan the July 7 bombing of the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Cnn.com |
7:53am PDT |
Dragnet nabs suspect in 3 swimmer killings |
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Cnn.com |
7:51am PDT |
Karadzic: I made deal with U.S. to vanish |
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Summary: (CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he made a deal with the United States to disappear from public life -- in exchange for immunity from the war crimes tribunal he's currently facing.
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Cnn.com |
7:48am PDT |
Jury can't get verdict in July 7 terror case |
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Yahoo News |
7:47am PDT |
Dead Army vaccine scientist eyed in anthrax probe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty against a top Army microbiologist in connection with anthrax mailings that killed five people. The scientist, who was developing a vaccine a |
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Cnn.com |
7:45am PDT |
FBI got closer; anthrax suspect kills self |
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Summary: A government anthrax researcher committed suicide this week as the Justice Department was considering criminal charges against him in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Authorities were investigating Bruce Ivins, a former researcher at the Army's bioweapons labora |
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ChristianPost |
7:44am PDT |
The Worth of a Life |
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Summary: It turns out that ?priceless? and ?worth fighting for? may have their limits, at least measured in dollars and cents. |
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Yahoo News |
7:43am PDT |
US wants me dead: Karadzic
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed Friday the United States wanted him dead after reneging on a deal to shield him from trial by the UN war crimes court. |
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BBC News |
7:40am PDT |
Congo groups 're-arming' in east |
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Summary: Government forces and rebel troops are rearming for conflict in the east of DR Congo, the BBC learns. |
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BBC News |
7:39am PDT |
Paddle power |
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Summary: Iran's women rowers hoping for Olympic success |
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BBC News |
7:29am PDT |
Edinburgh's colourful cavalcade kicks off festival season |
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Summary: Edinburgh gears up for the world's biggest arts festival |
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Cnn.com |
7:17am PDT |
Suspect in bus beheading identified |
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Summary: Tributes have started pouring in for the young man beheaded in Canada while traveling home on a bus.
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Cnn.com |
7:14am PDT |
Unemployment at 4-year high |
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Summary: Not since 2004 have so many people been out of work. Employers cut jobs again in July, according to a government report Friday that showed the seventh straight month of job losses. Losses spread far beyond the battered construction and auto industries. Re |
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Yahoo News |
7:11am PDT |
Official: US wanted death penalty in anthrax case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal prosecutors investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks were planning to indict and seek the death penalty against a top Army microbiologist who was developing a vaccine against the deadly toxin. The scientist apparently committed suicide this wee |
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Yahoo News |
7:10am PDT |
Defense rests case in first Guantanamo trial
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Military
defense lawyers finished presenting their case in the trial of
Osama bin Laden's driver on Friday in the first trial in the
U.S. war crimes court at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. |
