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BBC News |
10:29am PDT |
Central banks fight credit crisis |
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Summary: The world's largest central banks launch their latest coordinated action to calm jittery credit markets. |
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Yahoo News |
10:27am PDT |
GOP to push for NY gov impeachment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pressure mounted Tuesday on Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign because of a prostitution scandal, with a top state Republican threatening to push for impeachment proceedings if the governor doesn't step down in 48 hours. |
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BBC News |
10:22am PDT |
Serial killer main murder suspect |
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Summary: A French serial killer is to be questioned over the kidnap, rape and murder of a Gloucestershire woman in 1990. |
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BBC News |
10:21am PDT |
London 2012 to shelve ship idea |
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Summary: The organisers of the London Olympics scrap plans to have a ship sail the world promoting Britain's cultural riches. |
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BBC News |
10:21am PDT |
Olympics: 2012 ship idea shelved |
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Summary: The organisers of the London Olympics scrap plans to have a ship sail the world promoting Britain's cultural riches, the BBC learns. |
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Yahoo News |
10:21am PDT |
Fed and central banks team up to unstick markets
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Federal Reserve and other
central banks on Tuesday teamed up to get hundreds of billions
of dollars in fresh funds to cash-starved credit markets,
allowing financial firms to use securities backed by home
mortgages as collateral for |
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Yahoo News |
10:06am PDT |
U.S. criticizes 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. |
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Cnn.com |
10:01am PDT |
Is prostitution-linked governor about to 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 federal prosecutors linked Spitzer to a high-end prostitution ring, a top legislative staffer told CNN.
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Yahoo News |
9:51am PDT |
Google closes DoubleClick deal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Google Inc. says it has taken control of online ad service DoubleClick Inc., completing a deal that the Internet search leader announced 11 months ago. |
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Yahoo News |
9:45am PDT |
McCain lashes Democrats for criticizing NAFTA
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential candidate
John McCain criticized his Democratic rivals on Tuesday for
pledging to renegotiate a hemispheric trade treaty that
Democrats blame for U.S. manufacturing job losses. |
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Yahoo News |
9:43am PDT |
Obama tears into Clinton as Mississippi votes
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Mississippi headed to the polls Tuesday as Democrat Barack Obama launched a withering assault on the foreign policy boasts of his White House adversary Hillary Clinton. |
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Cnn.com |
9:42am PDT |
Stanford recruit, ball star gunned down in L.A. |
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Summary: Jamiel Shaw was just three doors from his house on March 2. His father told the 17-year-old high school football star to be home before dark. That is exactly what he was trying to do when, just before dusk, gunshots rang out.
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Cnn.com |
9:38am PDT |
1 out of 4 teen girls has an STD, study finds |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
9:37am PDT |
NY Republicans threaten to impeach Spitzer
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - State Republicans threatened on
Tuesday to impeach New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he does not
quit over a sex scandal that has raised questions over whether
he could face criminal charges. |
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BBC News |
9:34am PDT |
Cassini to make audacious flyby |
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Summary: Nasa directs its Cassini spacecraft to make an ultra-close pass of the Saturnian moon Enceladus. |
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Cnn.com |
9:34am PDT |
Suicide bombers blast Pakistan's version of 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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Yahoo News |
9:32am PDT |
1 in 4 teen girls has sexual disease
(AP)
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Summary: AP - At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group. |
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BBC News |
9:22am PDT |
Deadline to quit for NY's Spitzer |
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Summary: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is given 48 hours to quit over sex allegations or face impeachment. |
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BBC News |
9:17am PDT |
Man guilty of raping schoolgirls |
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Summary: Schoolgirls as young as 12 were raped and abused by a Newtownards man, Belfast Crown Court has heard. |
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BBC News |
9:15am PDT |
'Challenging' local tax unveiled |
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Summary: Scottish ministers unveil plans to replace the "unfair" council tax with a local income tax. |
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BBC News |
9:08am PDT |
STDs rife among US teenage girls |
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Summary: At least one in four teenage girls in the US has a sexually transmitted disease, a study finds. |
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BBC News |
9:06am PDT |
Afghan shops join doctors' strike |
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Summary: Shops and factories in the Afghan province of Herat join a doctors' strike to demand better security. |
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Yahoo News |
9:03am PDT |
Stocks rise on Fed lifeline to Wall St.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street rebounded sharply Tuesday after the Federal Reserve and other central banks said they will pump $200 billion into the financial markets to help ease the strain from the credit crisis. The Dow Jones industrials surged about 150 points. |
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Yahoo News |
8:56am PDT |
NY Republicans threaten to impeach Gov. Spitzer
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - State Republicans threatened on
Tuesday to impeach New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer if he does not
quit over a report linking him to a prostitute that has raised
questions over whether he could face criminal charges. |
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Yahoo News |
8:53am PDT |
Google takes control of DoubleClick
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Google Inc. says it has taken control of online ad service DoubleClick Inc., completing a deal that the Internet search leader announced 11 months ago. |
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Cnn.com |
8:51am PDT |
Mississippi grabs Democrats' focus |
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Summary: One of the most Republican states in the nation takes center stage Tuesday in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Cnn.com |
8:51am PDT |
Top Republican state grabs Dems' attention |
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Summary: One of the most Republican states in the nation takes center stage Tuesday in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Cnn.com |
8:50am PDT |
Deal could bring 3-D movies to 10,000 screens |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PDT |
Mississippi votes in tense White House race
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Mississippi headed to the polls Tuesday in the nailbiting US presidential race with Democrat Barack Obama tipped for another victory over his White House adversary Hillary Clinton. |
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BBC News |
8:47am PDT |
Radio 'could have saved SAS man' |
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Summary: A radio link may have saved an SAS soldier, killed on his first day parachute training, an inquest hears. |
