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4:07pm PDT |
Boy dies as sand tunnel collapses |
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Summary: A 15-year-old boy dies as a sand tunnel at a beach collapses around him. |
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Yahoo News |
3:52pm PDT |
Rich begin feeling the pain in down economy
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Summary: AP - The rich are sharing your financial pain — and contributing to it. |
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BBC News |
3:52pm PDT |
Eleven climbers feared dead on K2 |
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Summary: Eleven climbers have died in north Pakistan trying to scale the world's second-highest peak, K2, reports say. |
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Yahoo News |
3:49pm PDT |
Poll: McCain's attack strategy paying dividends
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Summary: AP - Intensified attacks by Republican John McCain on the character of his Democratic opponent have coincided with Barack Obama losing a nine percentage point advantage in a national poll, which showed the candidates running dead even over the weekend. |
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3:47pm PDT |
Paris Hilton's mom takes offense at McCain's humor
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Summary: AP - Paris Hilton's mother doesn't share John McCain's sense of humor. |
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Cnn.com |
3:29pm PDT |
Tropical storm forms; Louisiana warned |
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Summary: Tropical Storm Edouard formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, threatening to parallel Louisiana's coast while heading toward Texas, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Cnn.com |
3:26pm PDT |
Russian novelist Solzhenitsyn dies |
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Summary: The Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works detailed the Soviet labor camp system, has died at 89, Russian news agencies reported Monday.
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3:20pm PDT |
Tropical Storm Edouard forms off Louisiana coast
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Summary: AP - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Edouard has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and it's moving west along the Louisiana coast toward Texas. |
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Yahoo News |
3:19pm PDT |
U.N. council must increase sanctions on Iran: U.S
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Summary: Reuters - The United States said on Sunday
that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to
increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands
that it halt sensitive nuclear activities. |
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3:05pm PDT |
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
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Summary: AP - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. |
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BBC News |
2:56pm PDT |
Gulag chronicler Solzhenitsyn dies |
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Summary: Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin's prison system, dies at 89, Russian media report. |
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2:51pm PDT |
Favre to be added to Packers' active roster Monday
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Summary: AP - Though the Green Bay Packers say Brett Favre has put them in a difficult situation, they're prepared to welcome him back. The NFL announced Sunday that Favre will be reinstated and added to the Packers' active roster on Monday. |
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BBC News |
2:40pm PDT |
Superb Murray wins Masters title |
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Summary: Andy Murray beats Novak Djokovic in Cincinnati to win his first Masters Series tournament. |
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Cnn.com |
2:37pm PDT |
'Dark Knight' No. 1 again, nears $400 million |
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Cnn.com |
2:37pm PDT |
'Dark Knight' No. 1 again, nears $400M |
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BBC News |
2:28pm PDT |
Solzhenitsyn's life |
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Summary: Soldier, exile, and one of the greatest Russian writers |
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Yahoo News |
2:24pm PDT |
Tropical storm warning issued for Louisiana coast
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Summary: AP - A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for parts of the Louisiana coast as a tropical depression formed in the northern Gulf of Mexico. |
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Cnn.com |
2:19pm PDT |
Israel officer held after Palestinian boy dies |
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Summary: An Israeli border policeman has been arrested in connection with last week's shooting death of a Palestinian boy, an Israeli police spokesman said Sunday.
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1:48pm PDT |
GIs miss baby's first words, own weddings during long Iraq tour
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out. |
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1:48pm PDT |
GIs miss baby's first words, own weddings on long Iraq tour
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The phone call surprised Katie Kriesel, so soon after her husband, John, shipped out. |
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Cnn.com |
1:45pm PDT |
Obama wants 'full vote' for Mich., Fla. delegates |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday that delegates from Florida and Michigan should get a "full vote" at the Democratic convention this month.
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1:30pm PDT |
'Kidnap' girl reunited with her mother |
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Summary: A seven-year-old girl from London allegedly abducted by her father in the US has been reunited with her mother. |
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1:30pm PDT |
'Kidnap' girl rejoins her mother |
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Summary: Seven-year-old Reigh Storrow Boss is reunited with her mother after six days. |
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1:16pm PDT |
Scientist: DNA led agents to anthrax suspect
(AP)
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Summary: AP - DNA taken from the bodies of people killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks helped lead investigators to Bruce Ivins, who oversaw the highly specific type of germ in an Army lab, a government scientist said Sunday. |
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1:15pm PDT |
Al-Qaida: Explosives expert wanted by US killed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago. |
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Cnn.com |
1:09pm PDT |
11 dead after K2 avalanche, says climber |
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Summary: Eleven climbers died on Pakistan's K2 mountain after an ice avalanche knocked down a fixed rope climbers were using to reach the summit, a mountaineer at their base camp said Sunday. Among the dead was a sherpa who had gone up K2 -- the world's second-tal |
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12:59pm PDT |
Up to 150 dead in India temple stampede: police
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - As many as 150 Hindu worshippers, many of them women, children and the elderly, were crushed to death Sunday in a stampede at a hill temple in northern India, police said. |
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Cnn.com |
12:48pm PDT |
VP fever intensifies as conventions near |
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Summary: It happens once every four years: Political pundits, news junkies and water cooler crowds obsess over whom the presidential contenders will pick to be their No. 2.
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Cnn.com |
12:41pm PDT |
Sources: Gazans given amnesty still in limbo |
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Summary: Hamas arrested several Palestinian youths that Israel returned to Gaza on Sunday after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said they were not part of a Fatah-linked group granted passage through the Jewish state, an official in Abbas' office said.
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12:40pm PDT |
Plutonium leaks at Austrian plant |
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Summary: Plutonium leaks at a lab run by the UN's nuclear watchdog near Vienna but Austrian officials insist no-one was at risk. |
