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Yahoo News |
8:35am PST |
Packers legend Favre retires at 38
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Summary: Reuters - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett
Favre has decided to retire at the age of 38. |
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BBC News |
8:28am PST |
Man jailed for killing baby son |
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Summary: A former soldier from Devon is jailed for murdering his eight-week-old son by shaking him to death. |
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BBC News |
8:28am PST |
Man jailed for murdering baby son |
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Summary: A former soldier from Devon is jailed for murdering his eight-week-old son by shaking him to death. |
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Yahoo News |
8:23am PST |
Train derails in Calif.; homes evacuated
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Summary: AP - A freight train derailed in the Southern California desert and two tanker cars full of chemicals caught fire, sending up a cloud of fumes and forcing home evacuations, authorities said. |
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Cnn.com |
8:16am PST |
4 adults, 2 kids killed in Memphis home |
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Summary: Six people were killed, including two children, in a home Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said. Three other children were wounded. The four dead adults were shot and the two children were stabbed, sources told CNN affiliate WMC-TV.
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Yahoo News |
8:16am PST |
US states hold key polls
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama sought Tuesday to knock Hillary Clinton out of the White House race after a mud-slinging campaign that Democratic grandees fear is helping nobody but Republican heir John McCain. |
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Cnn.com |
8:10am PST |
Brett Favre retiring from NFL |
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Yahoo News |
8:05am PST |
Brett Favre retires after 17 years
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre has decided to retire from the NFL after 17 seasons. "He has had one of the greatest careers in the history of the National Football League, and he is able to walk away from the game on his own terms — not ma |
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7:58am PST |
Top commander: Iraq assessment needed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East said Tuesday that officials will probably need some time this summer to reassess the situation in Iraq before drawing down more troops. |
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Cnn.com |
7:56am PST |
More make-or-break-do-or-die primaries |
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Summary: Voters in four states will go to the polls Tuesday with a good chance at making the difference in deciding the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees.
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Cnn.com |
7:55am PST |
Wintry mess could slow voter turnout in Ohio |
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Summary: A possible tornado touched down late Monday in southern Mississippi, slashing through a National Guard barracks and injuring 14 guardsmen, according to a sheriff and a military spokesman.
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Yahoo News |
7:55am PST |
Rice urges renewed Middle East talks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice came away from a meeting with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday without any public
commitment to resume peace talks he froze over Israel's Gaza
offensive. |
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Cnn.com |
7:55am PST |
Military tried killing bomb suspect in Somalia |
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Summary: A U.S. missile strike in southern Somalia on Monday targeted a suspect on the FBI's most-wanted list of terrorists, according to a senior U.S. official.
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Cnn.com |
7:45am PST |
Sobbing widow recalls actor's final moments |
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Cnn.com |
7:43am PST |
GM to make lithium-ion powered hybrid cars |
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BBC News |
7:42am PST |
Abbas calls for Middle East truce |
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Summary: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas calls for an truce before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks can progress. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39am PST |
Stocks fall on bleak corporate forecasts
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Summary: AP - The stock market fell sharply Tuesday as troubling outlooks for Citigroup Inc. and Intel Corp. raised the anxiety level on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 100 points at times. |
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BBC News |
7:38am PST |
Colombia calls for Chavez charges |
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Summary: Colombia's president calls on the International Criminal Court to bring charges against Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. |
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Yahoo News |
7:34am PST |
Abbas calls for Israeli-Palestinian truce
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Summary: AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on Tuesday for a truce with Israel in order to try to achieve a peace agreement by the end of the year. |
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BBC News |
7:29am PST |
MPs to debate 'in or out' EU vote |
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Summary: MPs are to vote on whether there should be a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. |
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BBC News |
7:24am PST |
Child 'threatens two with knife' |
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Summary: Police are investigating allegations that a ten-year-old boy threatened two fellow pupils with a knife on their way to school. |
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Yahoo News |
7:11am PST |
Green Bay Packers Favre to retire
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett
Favre has decided to retire, ESPN reported on Tuesday.
According to Favre's agent Bus Cook, Favre has informed Packers
coach Mike McCarthy of his decision, ESPN said. |
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BBC News |
7:00am PST |
Newsreader Barnes suffers stroke |
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Summary: Former ITV News at Ten presenter Carol Barnes is seriously ill in a Brighton hospital after a stroke. |
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BBC News |
7:00am PST |
Newsreader Barnes ill with stroke |
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Summary: Former News at Ten presenter Carol Barnes is seriously ill in a Brighton hospital after a stroke. |
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Yahoo News |
6:58am PST |
Uribe to denounce Chavez in court in Andes crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on
Tuesday he would denounce Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in
international court in a growing Andean dispute after Venezuela
and Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with Bogota and ordered troops
to their neighbor's |
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Yahoo News |
6:51am PST |
Rice, Abbas urge resumption of talks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Tuesday that peace is his first choice in the Mideast and visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice exhorted Israel to "spare innocent life" in the latest upsurge in fighting in Hamas-ruled Gaza. |
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Yahoo News |
6:50am PST |
Fed chief: Mortgage crisis to continue
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called Tuesday for additional action to prevent more distressed homeowners from falling into foreclosure. |
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Yahoo News |
6:40am PST |
Train derails in Southern California
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Summary: AP - A Union Pacific train has derailed in the Southern California desert town of Mecca, setting two tanker cars ablaze. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39am PST |
United States cuts aid to Bosnian Serb ruling party
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. government has cut
development aid to the political party of Bosnian Serb Prime
Minister Milorad Dodik because of its nationalist policy, the
U.S. embassy in Sarajevo said in a statement on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
6:37am PST |
Deadline looms for science cuts |
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Summary: Scientists are given three weeks to make a case for a series of high-profile projects which face cuts. |
