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Cnn.com |
11:51pm PDT |
Saudi man arrested over TV sex boast |
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Summary: A Saudi Arabian man was arrested after bragging about his sex life on television, local media reported.
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Yahoo News |
11:51pm PDT |
Jackson advisor says he turned over $5.5 million
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Summary: AP - A former financial advisor to Michael Jackson said Friday that he was the person who recently turned over to executors $5.5 million, which had been "a secret between Michael and me." |
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Yahoo News |
11:45pm PDT |
Iraqi Kurds flock to polls in key election
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Summary: AFP - Iraqi Kurds on Saturday began casting their ballots in presidential and parliamentary polls being held as the region grapples with a land dispute with Baghdad and tensions over oil exports. |
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Yahoo News |
11:43pm PDT |
Controversial Iran VP abandons post: report
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Summary: AFP - Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, the controversial aide of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has abandoned his post as Iran's first vice president, the Fars news agency reported on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:39pm PDT |
Ericsson wins auction for Nortel's wireless assets
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Summary: Reuters - Sweden's Ericsson has won an auction for the wireless assets of bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp in a deal valued at $1.13 billion, Nortel said on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:20pm PDT |
Zelaya briefly steps into Honduras — now what?
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya stood on the edge of his country and called on his fellow Hondurans to resist the coup-installed government. |
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Yahoo News |
9:42pm PDT |
Report: Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported. |
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Yahoo News |
9:42pm PDT |
Holliday in St. Louie: Star goes to Cardinals
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Matt Holliday wanted to join his new team quickly, so he hopped on a train with his wife and two sons and got to the ballpark in plenty of time. |
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BBC News |
9:40pm PDT |
Outcry over disowned US rape girl |
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Summary: Offers of help pour in for an eight-year-old Liberian girl disowned by her family in Arizona, after being raped. |
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BBC News |
9:40pm PDT |
Outcry over disowned rape girl |
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Summary: Offers for help pour in for an eight-year-old Liberian girl disowned by her family in Arizona, after being raped. |
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DJ Chuang |
9:34pm PDT |
to Texas and back |
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Summary: Thrilled to be in Dallas this week for the Ideation Experience hosted by Leadership Network. I didn’t spend much time at the laptop keyboard and made most of my time with f2f conversations. For great notes on the process of ideation and innovation, |
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Yahoo News |
9:33pm PDT |
House Dems clear 1 health obstacle, others loom
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Summary: AP - House Democrats announced agreement Friday on far-reaching steps designed to rein in the relentless growth of Medicare, part of a concerted effort to counter the impression that President Barack Obama's health care legislation is in deep trouble. |
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Yahoo News |
9:20pm PDT |
Border agent killed in unusual violence within US
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal investigators scrambled Friday to find whoever shot a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the head in an unusually violent attack within the U.S. that has left a baffling trail of evidence. |
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BBC News |
9:05pm PDT |
Traffic wardens 'made to ticket' |
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Summary: Unions are warning that some traffic wardens are under increasing pressure to hit targets and are being bullied and humiliated if they under perform.
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BBC News |
8:58pm PDT |
Ousted Zelaya makes brief return |
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Summary: Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya briefly makes a symbolic crossing over the country's border with Nicaragua. |
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Yahoo News |
8:57pm PDT |
Paper: Bush considered sending troops into Buffalo
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported. |
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Yahoo News |
8:57pm PDT |
Ousted Zelaya sets foot back in Honduras, briefly
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Vowing to return home, ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a few symbolic steps inside Honduras on Friday but backed away from a confrontation with Honduran security forces waiting to arrest him. |
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BBC News |
8:38pm PDT |
IMF grants Sri Lanka $2.6bn loan |
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Summary: The International Monetary Fund approves a $2.6bn (£1.6bn) loan to help Sri Lanka weather the global economic crisis. |
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Yahoo News |
8:32pm PDT |
Bush advisers debated troops to nab U.S. terror targets
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Summary: Reuters - The Bush administration debated testing the U.S. Constitution by sending troops into the suburbs of Buffalo, New York to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with al Qaeda, The New York Times reported on Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
8:24pm PDT |
Well-known Iranians in exile hold hunger strike |
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Summary: If you're Iranian, you probably know both and Akbar Ganji and Googoosh. You also know that 30 years ago they had as much in common as Rush Limbaugh and Madonna. The story of how they came together this week on a street corner in Manhattan for a hunger str |
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BBC News |
8:24pm PDT |
Aviators mark cross-Channel first, 100 years after Bleriot's feat |
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Summary: A Swedish pilot will attempt to recreate the first flight across the English Channel, on the 100th anniversary. |
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Cnn.com |
8:05pm PDT |
House Democrats splinter over health care |
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Summary: House Democrats split sharply over the issue of health care reform Friday as talks between a committee chairman and party conservatives broke down. The escalating public dissent in the ranks raised new questions about President Obama's top domestic legisl |
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BBC News |
7:47pm PDT |
Equality chief urged to quit post |
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Summary: Equalities Commission chairman Trevor Phillips faces calls to quit after four commissioners resign in eight days. |
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Cnn.com |
7:41pm PDT |
Jackson estate recovers $5M from ex-advisers |
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Summary: The administrators of Michael Jackson's estate have filed court papers disclosing they've recovered $5.5 million in cash from one of Jackson's "former financial advisers."
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Yahoo News |
7:41pm PDT |
Ousted Honduran leader returns home -- briefly
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland Friday, vowing to reclaim his post a month after soldiers flew him into exile. |
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Cnn.com |
7:38pm PDT |
Liberia decries 8-year-old's sex assault in U.S. |
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Summary: The president of Liberia spoke Friday on the sexual assault of an 8-year-old Liberian refugee in Phoenix, Arizona, decrying reports that the parents believe their family has been shamed by the girl.
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Cnn.com |
7:38pm PDT |
Liberians decry 8-year-old's sex assault in U.S. |
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Summary: The president of Liberia spoke Friday on the sexual assault of an 8-year-old Liberian refugee in Phoenix, Arizona, decrying reports that the parents believe their family has been shamed by the girl.
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ChristianPost |
7:14pm PDT |
Pro-Family Leader Rebukes Gates, Sharpton for 'Abusing Police While Black' |
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Summary: The black leader of an organization dedicated to “rebuilding the family by rebuilding man” rebuked Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and civil rights activist Al Sharpton on Thursday for their "unfounded and reckless" allegations of racism against p |
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Yahoo News |
7:13pm PDT |
Millions of Iraqi Kurds go to polls in key vote
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - More than 2.5 million Iraqi Kurds go to the polls in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday as the region grapples with a land dispute with Baghdad and tensions over oil exports. |
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Cnn.com |
7:11pm PDT |
Retiring soldier eats 36-year-old cake-in-a-can |
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Summary: Serving a decades old, government-issue cake at an Army retirement ceremony sounds like a classic bureaucratic mistake, but there was no mistake about it.
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