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Yahoo News |
3:12pm PDT |
FBI starts criminal probe into Countrywide, reports NY Times
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The FBI has begun a criminal inquiry
into the largest U.S. mortgage lender, Countrywide Financial
Corp , for suspected securities fraud as part of
investigations into the mortgage crisis, The New York Times
reported on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:09pm PDT |
Venezuela reopening embassy in Colombia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Venezuela said Sunday that it is reopening its embassy in Colombia and will allow back Colombian diplomats expelled last week by President Hugo Chavez in a crisis sparked by a cross-border Colombian attack on rebels in Ecuador. |
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BBC News |
3:06pm PDT |
Socialists win Spanish elections |
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Summary: Early exit polls from Spain's election suggest win for Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's governing Socialist party. |
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Cnn.com |
3:06pm PDT |
Socialists claim win in Spain |
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Summary: Exit polls gave Spain's ruling Socialists the victory in general elections Sunday, but it was not clear whether they would win an absolute majority.
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3:02pm PDT |
Venezuela restores Colombia ties |
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Summary: Venezuela says it is restoring diplomatic ties with Colombia, a week after a regional crisis blew up. |
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Yahoo News |
2:58pm PDT |
Spain's conservatives concede vote loss
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Spain's opposition conservatives have conceded defeat in the country's general election. |
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Yahoo News |
2:56pm PDT |
Busch gets Toyota's first Sprint Cup win
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Kyle Busch gave Toyota its first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory, driving away from the pack in the waning laps to win the Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. |
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Yahoo News |
2:22pm PDT |
Venezuela restores Colombia diplomatic ties
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Venezuela will immediately restore
normal diplomatic relations with Colombia, the government said
on Sunday, after this week's resolution of a regional dispute
that had raised the specter of war. |
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Cnn.com |
2:15pm PDT |
Survey: Gas rises 9 cents in 2 weeks |
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Summary: Gas prices rose more than 9 cents over the past two weeks, to a national average of $3.20 per gallon of self-serve regular, a survey said Sunday.
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Cnn.com |
2:12pm PDT |
Ohio digs out; storm heads east |
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Yahoo News |
2:08pm PDT |
Early results put Spain Socialists ahead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Spain's ruling Socialist party appeared headed for victory in Spain's general election Sunday, overcoming worries about a slumping economy, immigration and resurgent Basque militants. |
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Yahoo News |
2:02pm PDT |
Studies: Iraq costs US $12B per month
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-w |
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Cnn.com |
2:02pm PDT |
Year after American vanishes, Iran still mum |
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Summary: Private investigator Robert Levinson was working in Iran when he vanished, and his family is searching for answers. Officials in Tehran aren't being cooperative, and the fugitive American who says he saw Iranian officials seize the former FBI agent said h |
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Cnn.com |
2:02pm PDT |
Wife of missing American wants answers from Iran |
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Summary: Private investigator Robert Levinson was working in Iran when he vanished, and his family is searching for answers. Officials in Tehran aren't being cooperative, and the fugitive American who says he saw Iranian officials seize the former FBI agent said h |
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Yahoo News |
1:33pm PDT |
Clintons push a Hillary/Obama ticket
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary and Bill Clinton are again
teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term
U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would
be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket
headed by the former |
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BBC News |
1:22pm PDT |
Spanish socialists head for win |
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Summary: Early exit polls from Spain's election suggest win for Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's governing Socialist party. |
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BBC News |
1:18pm PDT |
China says militant plots foiled |
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Summary: Chinese officials say they have thwarted two plans, one to attack the Olympics and another to crash an airliner. |
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BBC News |
12:55pm PDT |
Sunday football as it happened |
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Summary: Cardiff knock Middlesbrough out of the FA Cup as West Brom ease past Bristol Rovers. |
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Cnn.com |
12:47pm PDT |
Exit polls: Socialists win in Spain |
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Summary: Exit polls gave Spain's ruling Socialists the victory in general elections Sunday, but it was not clear whether they would win an absolute majority.
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Yahoo News |
12:17pm PDT |
Olmert approves homes for West Bank settlement
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israel announced plans to build
hundreds of new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied
West Bank on Sunday in a move the Palestinians denounced as
another blow to U.S.-brokered peace talks. |
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BBC News |
11:58am PDT |
Singer Duffy secures chart double |
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Summary: Welsh star Duffy debuts at number one with new album Rockferry, while her single Mercy is top for a third week. |
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Yahoo News |
11:44am PDT |
Reformers decry Iran president's nuclear rhetoric
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A leading Iranian reformist said on
Sunday that "provocative" speeches had damaged Iran's nuclear
cause and its diplomatic standing in a veiled attack on Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
Athletics: Gold for Idowu in Spain |
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Summary: Phillips Idowu wins Great Britain's first gold medal at the World Indoor Championships. |
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Cnn.com |
11:27am PDT |
Law targets adults who tongue kiss minors |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
11:14am PDT |
Live - Bristol Rovers v West Brom |
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Summary: Bristol Rovers host West Brom in the last FA Cup quarter-final after Cardiff knock out Middlesbrough. |
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Yahoo News |
11:09am PDT |
Investing joins 3 R's at unusual school
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Like their peers elsewhere, the students at a one-of-a-kind public elementary school on the South Side of Chicago are dazzled by pop-culture stars — Beyonce and Common, Kanye West and Lil' Wayne, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. |
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BBC News |
11:09am PDT |
Warning of evacuation over storms |
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Summary: Areas at high risk of flooding are warned of possible evacuations as Wales faces the worst storm of the winter. |
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Yahoo News |
11:02am PDT |
Venezuela nabs suspected Colombian cocaine kingpin
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Venezuelan authorities have arrested a
suspected drug lord and arms smuggler with paramilitary links
wanted in the United States on charges of trafficking cocaine,
a television station reported on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:57am PDT |
Fla. mail-in primary plan gains traction
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A consensus began to emerge Sunday that the best way to give Florida's Democrats a voice in electing a candidate for president lies with the U.S. Postal Service. |
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BBC News |
10:55am PDT |
Mugabe approves ownership law |
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Summary: Robert Mugabe approves a law giving local owners the right to take a majority share of foreign companies. |
