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Yahoo News |
1:59pm PDT |
Fla. presidential primary re-do unlikely
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Florida Democrats on Thursday proposed a vote-by-mail presidential primary to solve the high-stakes delegate dispute while acknowledging the plan's chances are slim. |
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Yahoo News |
1:43pm PDT |
U.S. urges NATO allies to back 5-year Afghan plan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States is urging NATO
allies at a summit next month to sign up to a five-year plan
stepping up efforts to end the insurgency in Afghanistan,
according to a document obtained by Reuters. |
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Yahoo News |
1:36pm PDT |
Obama blasts McCain on tax stance
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama took aim on
Thursday at potential White House opponent John McCain,
accusing the Arizona senator of switching his stance on tax
cuts in order to help his bid for the Republican presidential
nomination. |
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Yahoo News |
1:34pm PDT |
Some viruses come pre-installed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - From iPods to navigation systems, some of today's hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory — pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam. |
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Yahoo News |
1:32pm PDT |
Katrina victims complain about red tape
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, tens of thousands of miserable homeowners are still waiting for their government rebuilding checks, and many complain they can't even get their calls returned. But the company that holds the big contract |
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1:25pm PDT |
Captive archbishop's body found in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop was found in a shallow grave in northern Iraq on Thursday, two weeks after he was kidnapped by gunmen in one of the most dramatic attacks against the country's small Christian community. |
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Yahoo News |
1:20pm PDT |
Indian DNA links to 6 'founding mothers'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
1:19pm PDT |
Bush blasts House surveillance bill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Thursday that the House Democrats' version of a terrorist-surveillance bill would undermine the nation's security and that if it reaches his desk, he will veto it. |
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Cnn.com |
1:17pm PDT |
New $5 bill makes debut |
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Summary: The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday began circulating a redesigned $5 bill. The first transaction was at a gift shop near President Lincoln's summer cottage overlooking Washington.
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Yahoo News |
1:16pm PDT |
Obama criticizes McCain on taxes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that Sen. John McCain reversed his position on President Bush's deep tax cuts in order to win the Republican presidential nomination, one of his sharpest criticisms yet of the Arizona senator he hopes to fac |
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BBC News |
12:39pm PDT |
Taylor 'made rebels eat enemies' |
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Summary: Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor told militias to eat their enemies, a former rebel tells his war crimes trial. |
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Yahoo News |
12:37pm PDT |
Stocks rise after S&P report
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A fractious Wall Street recovered from an early plunge Thursday after Standard & Poor's predicted financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs that have been devastating the stock and credit markets since last summer. |
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Cnn.com |
12:24pm PDT |
Who's getting rich off $3 gas |
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Summary: Motorists may fume when forking over $3 a gallon at the local service station, but as it turns out, your local filling spot makes chump change from a gallon of gas.
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Cnn.com |
12:15pm PDT |
Spitzer's escort: 'I love who I am' |
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Summary: When the Emperors Club VIP said it was sending Kristen, a call girl described as a "petite, very pretty brunette," Client 9 was pleased. "Great, OK, wonderful," he said, according to an affidavit. Client 9, later revealed to be New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer |
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11:51am PDT |
NI councils reduced from 26 to 11 |
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Summary: The Northern Ireland Executive agrees on a compromise proposal to create 11 new councils. |
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11:51am PDT |
UK pupils hit News Day deadline |
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Summary: Young reporters across the UK tackled a range of subjects for TV, radio and online on School Report News Day. |
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Yahoo News |
11:50am PDT |
New hope and momentum seen for U.N. council expansion
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Many U.N. diplomats see new and
growing momentum at the United Nations which they hope will end
an impasse that has long blocked the launch of formal
negotiations on expanding the U.N. Security Council. |
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Yahoo News |
11:48am PDT |
Islamic Jihad rockets hit Israel after West Bank raid
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel
from the Gaza Strip on Thursday after Israel killed five
militants in the occupied West Bank, in renewed violence that
threatened prospects for an Egyptian-brokered truce. |
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BBC News |
11:42am PDT |
Innovation 'starts in education' |
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Summary: A government White Paper is published to make the UK a world leader in innovation. |
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Yahoo News |
11:40am PDT |
Stocks recoup losses on S&P projection
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street recovered from an early plunge Thursday to trade higher after Standard & Poor's predicted financial companies are nearing the end of the massive asset write-downs that devastated the stock and credit markets for months. |
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Yahoo News |
11:23am PDT |
Novartis sued in Calif. over kids' cough medicine
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A California mother has sued drug
maker Novartis AG in what the company believes to be the first
proposed class action involving its Triaminic children's cough
and cold medicines since overdose fears prompted a recall of
the drugs. |
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Cnn.com |
11:23am PDT |
Comic Crystal strikes out with Yankees |
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BBC News |
11:10am PDT |
Michael Jackson 'saves Neverland' |
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Summary: Michael Jackson has refinanced Neverland to save it from being auctioned off, his lawyer says. |
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Yahoo News |
11:04am PDT |
Rice: U.S. concerned by terrorism in Latin America
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said on Thursday that Washington was concerned about terrorism
in Latin America but she declined to comment on the chances
that it might add Venezuela to a U.S. terrorism blacklist. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01am PDT |
Crystal strikes out in new career
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Billy Crystal better stick to his night job. The comedian, actor and Oscar presenter struck out in his new career as a baseball player Thursday — and promptly struck out as the New York Yankees' new leadoff man. |
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BBC News |
10:59am PDT |
Antarctica's unique space rocks |
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Summary: A pair of meteorites discovered in Antarctica are in a class all of their own, a major space conference is told. |
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BBC News |
10:55am PDT |
MPs' £10k kitchens on expenses |
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Summary: The amounts MPs can claim on expenses for their second homes emerges - from £300 rugs to £10,000 kitchens. |
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BBC News |
10:49am PDT |
News Day - hour by hour |
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Summary: How School Reporters across the UK covered the news on 13 March 2008. |
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BBC News |
10:49am PDT |
Huge ice deposits 'seen' on Mars |
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Summary: Water ice has probably been detected below Mars' surface, far from the planet's polar ice caps, say scientists. |
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BBC News |
10:45am PDT |
Inquiry into stabbed vicar death |
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Summary: A watchdog is to investigate why a paranoid schizophrenic who killed a vicar was not identified as a threat. |
