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8:34pm PST |
Mistrial Declared in Texas Murder Trial
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Summary: AP - A judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the murder trial of a woman accused of fatally cutting the arms off her 10-month-old daughter. |
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8:30pm PST |
Homeland Security Protested Ports Deal
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Summary: AP - The Homeland Security Department objected at first to a United Arab Emirates company's taking over significant operations at six U.S. ports. It was the lone protest among members of the government committee that eventually approved the deal with |
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8:23pm PST |
Archbishop in Sudan 'peace visit' |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury arrives in Sudan at the start of a week-long pre-Lent visit. |
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8:17pm PST |
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, emotional toll still high
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Summary: AFP - Every time New Orleans gets a hard rain, Gabriel Black drives to the levee to see how high the water has risen. |
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8:16pm PST |
Aldridge Nearly Perfect As Texas Romps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - LaMarcus Aldridge scored 18 points on near-perfect shooting and No. 7 Texas inched closer to its first Big 12 title in seven years with an 80-55 win over No. 16 Kansas on Saturday night. |
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8:09pm PST |
More tests needed on powder in Texas dorm room
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More tests are needed to
determine if a chunky white powder found in a University of
Texas dormitory room is the deadly poison ricin, the FBI said
on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:50pm PST |
Bush Urges Iraqis to Stem Wave of Violence
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Summary: AP - Bombs and gunfire killed about 60 people as another daytime curfew Saturday failed to halt violence that has claimed nearly 200 lives since the destruction of a Shiite shrine set off a wave of retribution against Sunnis and pushed Iraq toward civil w |
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7:39pm PST |
Unrest at notorious Afghan jail |
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Summary: A riot starts at Kabul's main jail, and four prisoners are reported dead, with two guards taken hostage. |
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7:34pm PST |
Company Gives Up Hope for Trapped Miners
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Summary: AP - Toxic gas levels inside a northern Mexican coal mine are too high for any of the 65 miners trapped inside to have survived a nearly week-old explosion, the mining company said Saturday. |
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7:09pm PST |
Mine missing declared dead |
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Summary: The 65 men trapped in a coal mine in northern Mexico for almost a week are dead, the company says. |
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7:07pm PST |
All-party plan for Lords reform |
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Summary: The government is to launch an initiative to get consensus on reforms of the House of Lords. |
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7:02pm PST |
Al-Qaida Vows Attacks After Foiled Bid
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Summary: AP - Al-Qaida on Saturday vowed more attacks a day after an attempt to bomb the world's biggest oil processing complex showed the group still can strike inside Saudi Arabia despite the arrests of hundreds of suspects. |
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6:57pm PST |
Mistrial for woman accused of cutting off infant's arms |
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6:46pm PST |
Bolton Blasts U.N. 'Sex and Corruption'
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Summary: AP - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday that the world body is hobbled "by bad management, by sex and corruption" and a lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions. |
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6:36pm PST |
Nuclear, terrorism issues to hog Bush's first South Asia trip
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush leaves on a maiden visit to South Asia this week and is determined to clinch a landmark nuclear deal with India and prod Pakistan to move more rapidly against Al-Qaeda leaders believed to be hiding in the country. |
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6:29pm PST |
Don Knotts, TV's Barney Fife, Dies at 81
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Summary: AP - Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company," has died. He was 81. |
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Cnn.com |
6:27pm PST |
Actor Don Knotts dies |
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Cnn.com |
6:27pm PST |
Actor Don Knotts dead at 81 |
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6:26pm PST |
More Tests Needed in Texas Ricin Scare
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A University of Texas student found a substance in a roll of quarters that tested positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison, but more tests were needed, officials said Saturday. |
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Cnn.com |
6:23pm PST |
Mine officials: No chance of survivors |
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Cnn.com |
6:06pm PST |
Beads, bawdiness return to New Orleans |
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Cnn.com |
6:06pm PST |
Beads, bawdiness and booze: The party returns |
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6:02pm PST |
Murder accused father dies |
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Summary: A man accused of murdering his daughter dies after "long term refusal of food", the Home Office says. |
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5:56pm PST |
Palestinian leader issues warning |
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Summary: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he may resign if he feels too constrained by a Hamas administration. |
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5:54pm PST |
Guns found in £50m robbery van |
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Summary: Police investigating the £50m Securitas robbery recover firearms and cash and say "the net is closing in". |
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5:44pm PST |
Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts dies at 81
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Summary: Reuters - Don Knotts, who won five Emmys for
portraying the bungling deputy Barney Fife on the hit
television program "The Andy Griffith Show," has died at age
81, a spokesman said on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PST |
Trapped Mexican miners are dead: family member
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Sixty-five Mexican miners trapped in a mine six days ago are dead, the mine manager told their family members. |
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Cnn.com |
4:36pm PST |
GOP working on solution to ports deal |
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Summary: The British company selling its operations at six major U.S. ports to a state-controlled Arab firm has operations in 23 U.S. port cities but not a monopoly at any of the ports to be sold, according to the company's Web site. |
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4:11pm PST |
Suez to merge with Gaz de France
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Summary: AFP - France announced the merger of its state-owned Gaz de France with utility giant Suez, fending off a potential takeover bid from an Italian group and demonstrating its interest in "economic patriotism". |
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BBC News |
4:05pm PST |
Hope for better baby hearing test |
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Summary: A brain test to detect which frequencies babies cannot hear could help design individualised hearing aids for them. |
