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Yahoo News |
1:25pm PDT |
Stocks shoot higher on Fed credit plan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street finally found a reason for a huge rally Tuesday, after the Federal Reserve said it plans to pump $200 billion into the financial markets to help ease the strain from the credit crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average shot up more than 41 |
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1:20pm PDT |
Woman forgotten in cell over weekend
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with no food, water, or toilet, authorities and the woman said. |
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1:16pm PDT |
'Gilligan's' Mary Ann caught with dope
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car. |
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1:13pm PDT |
Restraining order against Moss dropped
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman who obtained a restraining order earlier this year against New England Patriots star Randy Moss has requested that the order be dissolved and the case dismissed, court records show. |
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1:07pm PDT |
Top U.S. Mideast commander quits after Iran story
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S.
commander for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, will retire
because of misperceptions he disagrees with the Bush
administration on Iran, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on
Tuesday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:00pm PDT |
Fallon resigns as chief of U.S. forces in Middle East |
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Summary: Adm. William Fallon has resigned as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia. Fallon, who had held the post for more than a year, cited what he called inaccurate news reports that put him at odds with the Bush administration over Iran.
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12:56pm PDT |
Clinton and Obama trade fire over campaign tactics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential
contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded fire over
campaign tactics on Tuesday and avoided wading into a debate
over whether the New York governor, a fellow Democrat and
Clinton backer, should resign in a prostitu |
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BBC News |
12:47pm PDT |
US Middle-East commander quits |
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Summary: The head of US forces in the Middle East, Adm William Fallon, is stepping down, the Pentagon announces. |
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Cnn.com |
12:29pm PDT |
Gangster arrested in killing of teen football star |
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Summary: Jamiel Shaw didn't have time to tell the gang members he wasn't one of them. The high school football star and Stanford recruit was gunned down before he could answer. Half a world away, his mother got the news while on duty in Iraq. "I was screaming and |
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Cnn.com |
12:29pm PDT |
Stanford recruit, ball star gunned down |
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Summary: Jamiel Shaw didn't have time to tell the gang members he wasn't one of them. The high school football star and Stanford recruit was gunned down before he could answer. Half a world away, his mother got the news while on duty in Iraq. "I was screaming and |
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BBC News |
12:28pm PDT |
Boss of internet bank Egg resigns |
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Summary: The boss of Egg quits, although the internet bank says it is unrelated to a row over credit card cancellations. |
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Yahoo News |
12:21pm PDT |
Obama, Clinton battle in Mississippi
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Mississippi primary on Tuesday, last in a string of contests across the Deep South and the final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race in Pennsylvania. |
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12:19pm PDT |
Gas prices rise to new national record
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The cost of filling up the family car jumped to a record high Tuesday, adding to the challenges consumers already face with falling home values and rising food prices. |
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12:19pm PDT |
New race row rocks Democrats as Mississippi votes
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama's camp on Tuesday called on his rival Hillary Clinton to fire history-blazing supporter Geraldine Ferraro, after she put the Illinois senator's stunning rise down to his race. |
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12:14pm PDT |
U.S. eases criticism of China and targets Russia
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States took aim at Russia
on Tuesday in its annual report on human rights, accusing the
government of corruption and electoral abuses, but seemed to
ease criticism of China ahead of the Olympic Games. |
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Yahoo News |
12:09pm PDT |
U.N. torture envoy says U.S. deny access to Iraq jails
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. investigator on torture said on
Tuesday the United States had denied his request to visit
U.S.-run jails in Iraq and insisted a visit could help clear
its legacy of the prison abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib. |
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Yahoo News |
12:06pm PDT |
Quarter of teen girls have sex-related disease
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More than one in four U.S. teen
girls is infected with at least one sexually transmitted
disease, and the rate is highest among blacks, the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:58am PDT |
Bush warns that gains in Iraq fragile and reversible
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush
warned on Tuesday that security gains in Iraq were "fragile"
and "reversible" as he appealed to skeptical Americans for
patience nearly five years after the U.S.-led invasion. |
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Cnn.com |
11:49am PDT |
Arrest made in slaying of Stanford recruit, ball star |
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Summary: Jamiel Shaw didn't have time to tell the gang members he wasn't one of them. The high school football star and Stanford recruit was gunned down before he could answer. Half a world away, his mother got the news while on duty in Iraq. "I was screaming and |
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Cnn.com |
11:46am PDT |
Will prostitution-linked governor quit? |
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Summary: Aides to New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Lt. Gov. David Paterson are discussing a transfer of power today, less than 24 hours after it emerged that federal prosecutors had linked Spitzer to a high-end prostitution ring, a top legislative staffer told CNN. |
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Cnn.com |
11:44am PDT |
Suicide bombers hit Pakistan's 'FBI' |
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Summary: Two suicide bombers exploded a car Tuesday at a building containing the offices of Pakistan's national investigative agency, destroying it and killing and wounding people inside.
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BBC News |
11:35am PDT |
Fears over forced marriages |
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Summary: A committee of MPs looking into the issue of forced marriages suggests more than 2,000 children are missing. |
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BBC News |
11:29am PDT |
Chancellor looks to green budget |
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Summary: Chancellor Alistair Darling is expected to include green taxes in his budget to boost state coffers, analysts say. |
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Cnn.com |
11:25am PDT |
U.S. report: China abusing human rights |
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Yahoo News |
11:16am PDT |
EU clears Google to buy DoubleClick
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Google Inc. took control of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. Tuesday just hours after European regulators cleared Google's $3.1 billion bid for the company. |
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Yahoo News |
10:56am PDT |
Site plans hundreds of TV shows online
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hulu.com, a joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal, plans to open its vast online library of ad-supported TV shows and movies to the public on Wednesday, the company announced. |
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Yahoo News |
10:53am PDT |
44 killed as Iraq and US ponder future American role
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - At least 44 people were killed in violence across Iraq on Tuesday, including 16 in a bomb attack on a bus, as US and Iraqi officials began talks on the US military's future role in the country. |
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BBC News |
10:39am PDT |
Top UK police chief is found dead |
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Summary: Michael Todd, the head of one of the biggest police forces in Britain, is found dead. |
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BBC News |
10:38am PDT |
Gale force winds set to batter NI |
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Summary: A severe weather warning is issued for NI, as the UK braces itself for further storms. |
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Yahoo News |
10:37am PDT |
U.S. critical of Russia in new rights report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States took aim at Russia
on Tuesday for its human rights record, accusing the government
of corruption, harassment of the media and electoral abuse and
the security forces of killings and torture. |
