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Yahoo News |
2:12pm PST |
Jury acquits Wesley Snipes of tax fraud
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return. |
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BBC News |
1:57pm PST |
Delays continue on HMRC website |
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Summary: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says users of its online service are still experiencing delays filing their tax self-assessment. |
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Yahoo News |
1:55pm PST |
Pentagon rejects report, says ready for WMD attack
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Pentagon on Friday insisted it
is ready to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear attack
inside the United States, rejecting an independent panel's
criticism of its preparations. |
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Cnn.com |
1:45pm PST |
1 million Evenflo car seats recalled |
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Summary: About one million child safety seats made by Evenflo are being recalled because they could fail to protect children from vehicle side-impacts.
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Cnn.com |
1:45pm PST |
Snipes acquitted of tax fraud, conspiracy |
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Yahoo News |
1:33pm PST |
Huckabee: Romney shifted on key issues
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican Mike Huckabee on Friday defended his previous remark that Mitt Romney didn't reach "political puberty" until recently, saying he was referring to his presidential rival's change of heart on key issues. |
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1:31pm PST |
US strike exposes entrenched militants
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. missile strike that killed a top al-Qaida commander just over a mile from a Pakistani military base shows how entrenched Islamic militants are in the lawless tribal regions, where extremists have launched increasingly bold attacks. |
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PST |
U.S. backs modernizing Polish air defenses
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States supports
modernizing Poland's air defenses, a key Polish demand for
hosting part of a planned missile defense system, U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PST |
6 killed in North Carolina plane crash
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A twin-engine plane crashed Friday as it tried to land amid low fog at a small airport in northwest North Carolina, killing all six people on board, officials said. |
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Cnn.com |
1:14pm PST |
Casinos bet -- on getting your rebate |
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Summary: Kevin Warren, a New York City doorman, knows what he's going to do with his tax rebate check: "I'm going to try to double it."
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Cnn.com |
1:08pm PST |
Aruba reopens Holloway case -- again |
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Cnn.com |
12:54pm PST |
NASA to beam Beatles song to North Star |
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Yahoo News |
12:54pm PST |
Employment drops in a pink slip blizzard
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession. |
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Yahoo News |
12:13pm PST |
Britney Spears' parents go to LA court
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Britney Spears' parents made a surprise appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday, a day after she was whisked to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. |
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Yahoo News |
12:05pm PST |
NFL commissioner defends destroying tapes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In the face of congressional pressure over destroying evidence from the Spygate scandal, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended his actions Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:02pm PST |
Mentally retarded women used in bombings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extr |
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Cnn.com |
12:00pm PST |
Town rallies around wrongly convicted man |
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Summary: Since a judge threw out Tim Masters' murder conviction and freed the 36-year-old after almost a decade behind bars, the town of Fort Collins, Colorado, has showered him in letters, gifts and general good will. Though he remains a suspect in the 1987 slayi |
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Yahoo News |
11:57am PST |
Kenya's parties agree to stop violence
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Kenya's feuding parties agreed on
Friday to a framework for talks to resolve a violent political
crisis, in which some 850 people have died, within 15 days,
former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:51am PST |
Mentally impaired female bombers kill 64 in Baghdad markets
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Explosives strapped to two mentally impaired women were triggered by remote control in co-ordinated blasts Friday that ripped through two Baghdad pet markets killing 64 people, an official said. |
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BBC News |
11:41am PST |
Stranded motorists led to safety |
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Summary: A rescue operation is mounted to help 200 motorists stranded in snowdrifts in County Durham. |
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Cnn.com |
11:33am PST |
Third Internet cable cut in Mideast |
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Summary: Repair ships are going to the site of two undersea cables which were damaged this week, snarling Internet and phone traffic across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cables' owner said Friday.
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Cnn.com |
11:30am PST |
Militants turn disabled into human bombs |
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Summary: Two mentally disabled women were strapped with explosives today and sent into busy Baghdad markets, where they were blown up by remote control, a top Iraqi government official said. The bombs killed at least 98 people and wounded more than 200 at two popu |
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Cnn.com |
11:27am PST |
Ex-fiancee breaks silence on Ledger's death |
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BBC News |
11:20am PST |
Kenyan parties 'agree peace plan' |
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Summary: Kenya's feuding political rivals agree a plan to end the violence in the country, says ex-UN chief Kofi Annan. |
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Yahoo News |
11:14am PST |
Microsoft bids $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Microsoft Corp
made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion, seeking
to join forces against Google Inc in what would be the
biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner- AOL merger. |
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Cnn.com |
10:58am PST |
You weigh in on Microsoft's Yahoo bid |
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Summary: News that Microsoft was making a $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo was greeted with skepticism by many CNN.com users on Friday.
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Cnn.com |
10:53am PST |
Readers weigh in on Microsoft's Yahoo bid |
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Summary: News that Microsoft was making a $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo was greeted with skepticism by many CNN.com users on Friday.
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Yahoo News |
10:51am PST |
Female bombers kill 64 in Baghdad pet markets
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Explosives strapped to two mentally impaired women were triggered by remote control in co-ordinated attacks that devastated two Baghdad pet markets on Friday and killed at least 64 people, an Iraqi official said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:47am PST |
Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Scientists in Finland said they had
replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone
transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own
fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen. |
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BBC News |
10:45am PST |
Football: Hunt signs Royals deal |
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Summary: Midfielder Stephen Hunt signs a new deal to keep him at the Madejski Stadium until the summer of 2011. |
