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3:17pm PDT |
Bush optimistic on economy, Clinton says in recession
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush, seeking to
bolster faith in the economy amid fears of a recession,
acknowledged on Friday the United States was going through hard
times but said growth would resume over the long run because
economic fundamentals w |
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2:55pm PDT |
Turmoil in Tibet after deadly violence
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Tibet braced for the worst Saturday after a day of violence in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, where police opened fire to end the biggest anti-Chinese protests in two decades and some deaths were reported, officials and rights groups said. |
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2:52pm PDT |
Obama denounces pastor's 9/11 comments
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday denounced inflammatory remarks from his pastor, who has railed against the United States and accused its leaders of bringing on the Sept. 11 attacks by spreading terrorism. |
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2:45pm PDT |
Pre-Inca temple discovered in Peru
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig. |
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2:40pm PDT |
Search for missing S.C. couple broadens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The search for a couple missing for almost two weeks has expanded beyond this resort island, a sheriff said Friday without giving details. |
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2:35pm PDT |
U.S. struggles to interest Russia in missile shield
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
said on Friday Russia had shown some interest in U.S. ideas on
cooperating on plans to build a missile shield in Europe but
remained fundamentally opposed to the system. |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PDT |
Cabrera, Duncan, Gomes suspended
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The shenanigans between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays will leave them short-handed. Yankees first baseman Shelley Duncan and center fielder Melky Cabrera were suspended for three games and Tampa Bay outfielder Jonny Gomes was docked two gam |
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2:23pm PDT |
Elissalde doubts Welsh standard |
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Summary: Jean-Baptiste Elissalde says France have nothing to fear from Wales in Saturday's Six Nations decider. |
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2:10pm PDT |
Great-grandma, 83, foils purse snatcher
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Great-grandmother 1, would-be robber 0. Bernie Garcia at first thought the young man who approached her asking for money while she gassed up her car seemed like a sweet guy. |
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2:03pm PDT |
Chavez says US can 'shove' terror list
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Hugo Chavez dared the U.S. on Friday to put Venezuela on a list of countries accused of supporting terrorism, calling it one more attempt by Washington to undermine him for political reasons. Chavez said the "threat to include us on the ter |
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2:01pm PDT |
High-level al-Qaida figure captured
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After secret interrogations, the CIA transferred to U.S. military custody a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday. |
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BBC News |
2:00pm PDT |
Fishing boat crewmen found in sea |
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Summary: Two fishing boat crewmen are taken to hospital after being pulled from the sea off County Donegal. |
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BBC News |
2:00pm PDT |
Fishing boat crewman found in sea |
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Summary: One man has been rescued after a fishing boat gets into difficulties off the coast of County Donegal. |
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Yahoo News |
1:58pm PDT |
House approves new eavesdropping rules
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The House on Friday approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. The bill, approved as lawmakers departed for a two-week break, faces a veto threat from Presid |
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1:43pm PDT |
Pentagon reports increase in harassment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One-third of women in the military and 6 percent of men said they were sexually harassed, according to the latest Pentagon survey on the issue. |
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Cnn.com |
1:41pm PDT |
Doctors cleared in death of John Ritter |
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1:39pm PDT |
Man in month-old Vegas ricin case wakes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man who may have been exposed to toxic ricin in his motel room a month ago has regained consciousness and was being questioned by investigators, authorities said Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:31pm PDT |
Hiker killer hatched '95 murder movie plot |
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Summary: When attorney-turned-movie producer Samuel Rael decided he wanted to make a film about a serial killer in 1995, it was former legal client Gary Michael Hilton who he says came up with the plot.
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1:22pm PDT |
Risks vs cheap stock price: Will Bear be bought?
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The emergency rescue of Bear
Stearns Co Inc on Friday left observers from all quarters
wondering who would be the last man standing at the Wall Street
bank. |
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Yahoo News |
1:17pm PDT |
Stocks retreat on credit fears
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks tumbled Friday after a plan to alleviate a liquidity crisis at Bear Stearns Cos. touched off concerns about the severity of credit troubles. Each of the major indexes lost more than 1.5 percent on the day, with the Dow Jones industrial average |
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Cnn.com |
1:08pm PDT |
All clear for Richard Gere; kissing warrant lifted |
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1:04pm PDT |
Police summon Goa girl's mother |
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Summary: The mother of a British teenager murdered in Goa is issued with a summons to appear before police. |
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BBC News |
1:00pm PDT |
Move to ban ruling Turkish party |
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Summary: A Turkish state prosecutor asks the country's top court to ban the ruling AK Party for anti-secular activities. |
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Cnn.com |
12:27pm PDT |
CIA sends Bin Laden associate to Gitmo |
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Summary: The U.S. military has put a close associate of Osama bin Laden in prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said Friday.
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12:27pm PDT |
Senior al Qaeda suspect sent to Guantanamo prison
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suspected high-level al Qaeda
member who helped Osama bin Laden elude U.S. forces in
Afghanistan has been captured and sent to the U.S. military
prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
12:08pm PDT |
Fresh banking fears knock shares |
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Summary: US shares fall sharply on renewed fears about the impact of bad mortgage debt and the wider credit squeeze. |
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Cnn.com |
12:00pm PDT |
Doctors cleared in death of actor John Ritter |
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11:55am PDT |
Stocks tumble after Bear Stearns bailout
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks tumbled Friday as a plan to alleviate a liquidity crisis at Bear Stearns Cos. touched off concerns about the severity of credit troubles. Each of the major indexes lost more than 2 percent; the Dow Jones industrial average gave up about 300 po |
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Yahoo News |
11:53am PDT |
House seeks debt limit increase to $10.2 trillion
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The government's debt limit would be
raised to $10.2 trillion under a budget plan for next year
approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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Cnn.com |
11:52am PDT |
Fed-up Tibetans setting fires in capital |
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Summary: Protesters set fire to vehicles and shops in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa on Friday, as tear gas filled the streets and gunfire rang out, a witness told CNN.
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