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3:52pm PDT |
Kosovo clashes force UN pullout |
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Summary: UN police leave the Kosovo Serb stronghold in Mitrovica after more than 130 people are injured in clashes. |
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Yahoo News |
3:43pm PDT |
Cheney warns against large cuts in Iraq
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Summary: AP - Vice President Dick Cheney warned Monday against large U.S. troop cuts that could jeopardize recent security gains in Iraq, as he marked the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion with a two-day visit to the country. |
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3:43pm PDT |
UN calls for restraint in Tibet |
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Summary: UN chief Ban Ki-moon urges both Chinese troops and protesters in Tibet to show restraint after days of rioting. |
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Cnn.com |
3:31pm PDT |
Lawyers: Waterboarded detainee falsely held |
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Summary: Lawyers for one of the administration's most prized detainees in the war on terror are challenging their client's detention as unlawful -- contending he was never a member of al Qaeda and never tried to harm Americans.
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Cnn.com |
3:21pm PDT |
Ex-Beatle to pay $50M in divorce deal |
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Summary: Former Beatle Paul McCartney today was ordered to pay nearly $50M to his estranged wife as their bitter divorce battle came to an end. Heather Mills told reporters she was "so, so happy" with the outcome of her fight for a share of the pop legend's fortun |
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3:13pm PDT |
Leakey backing for elephant cull |
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Summary: Richard Leakey, the eminent African conservationist, gives qualifed backing to South Africa's elephant cull. |
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3:00pm PDT |
The legend of Tiger Woods keeps growing
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Summary: AP - The outcome has never been more inevitable. Tiger Woods has never looked so invincible. The world's No. 1 golfer faced a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Bay Hill, and the moment he settled over the ball and the crowd grew quiet, it no longer |
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2:58pm PDT |
Football: Magpies draw with Blues |
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Summary: Michael Owen's opportunistic strike earns Newcastle a vital point against fellow strugglers Birmingham and ends his side's four-game losing streak. |
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2:50pm PDT |
Florida Dems abandon mail-in vote plan
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Summary: AP - Florida Democrats have abandoned plans to redo the presidential primary with a mostly mail-in vote. |
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2:48pm PDT |
Cops: Teen tried to steal cruiser's gas
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Summary: AP - A Monroe County sheriff's detective on a stakeout to catch an arsonist arrested the suspect as he tried to steal gas from the officer's cruiser. Officers were placed around homes currently under construction after police had gotten two arson complain |
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Cnn.com |
2:42pm PDT |
Human rights groups see disaster in Iraq |
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Summary: As the war in Iraq reaches its five-year anniversary this week, two of the world's leading humanitarian groups issued extensive reports Monday describing a crisis of huge proportions with little reason for hope.
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2:38pm PDT |
Both parties cheer NY's new governor
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Summary: AP - David Paterson was sworn in as governor Monday before a crowd of lawmakers who chanted his name and cheered his message of unity in a state eager to move past his predecessor's sordid and speedy political collapse. |
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2:35pm PDT |
Deepening slump envelops factory sector
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Summary: Reuters - A spreading economic malaise seeped
into U.S. factories in February and March as waning demand more
than offset the export benefits of a cheaper dollar, a series
of reports showed on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:29pm PDT |
Clintons prod Dems on delegate strength
(AP)
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Summary: AP - After a weekend of campaign adversity, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband separately prodded Democratic Party leaders on Monday to look beyond mere delegate strength in picking a presidential nominee at this summer's national convention. |
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2:18pm PDT |
Russian, U.S. officials see chance for better ties
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Russia and the United States expressed
optimism on Monday they could improve ties, and Pentagon chief
Robert Gates said a deal might be reached on a U.S. missile
shield before the end of the Bush administration. |
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Yahoo News |
2:16pm PDT |
Justices take up gun rights in D.C. case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Supreme Court gets to write on a blank slate when it takes up the meaning of the Second Amendment "right to keep and bear arms" and the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. |
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2:12pm PDT |
Bear fire sale sparks rout on eve of Fed rate cut
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc
stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial stocks on the
eve of an expected U.S. interest rate cut aimed at preventing a
meltdown of the financial system. |
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Cnn.com |
2:09pm PDT |
Pilot charged in San Francisco Bay Bridge spill |
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Summary: The pilot of the oil tanker that crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge, causing a major oil spill last year, has been charged in federal court with criminal negligence in the accident.
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2:05pm PDT |
Individual's right to bear arms at issue
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Supreme Court gets to write on a blank slate when it takes up the meaning of the Second Amendment "right to keep and bear arms" and the District of Columbia's ban on handguns. |
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Cnn.com |
1:57pm PDT |
Fed may cut rates -- will it help? |
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Summary: With Wall Street hit by a crisis of confidence, many are hoping the nation's central bank can save the day.
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1:54pm PDT |
Stocks mixed after Bear Stearns deal
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Summary: AP - Wall Street ended a temperamental session widely mixed Monday after investors grappled with JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s government-backed buyout of the stricken investment bank Bear Stearns Cos. |
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Yahoo News |
1:53pm PDT |
Bomb kills 43 in Iraqi city of Karbala
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Summary: AP - A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at least 43 people and leaving pools of blood on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques. |
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1:51pm PDT |
Gay ex-gov claims threesome tryst
(AP)
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Summary: AP - He says yes. She says no. He says yes. Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey said Monday he and his wife and a male aide engaged in sexual threesomes, contradicting a denial issued hours earlier by his estranged wife. |
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1:49pm PDT |
Dow rises, S&P and Nasdaq down after Bear deal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Dow industrials ended slightly
higher, but the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell on Monday after
JPMorgan Chase & Co's deal to buy struggling brokerage
Bear Stearns at a rock bottom price failed to dispel fears of
deeper fallout from the esca |
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1:21pm PDT |
Woman dies in traffic accident |
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Summary: A woman has died in a traffic collision on the main Kesh to Enniskillen road in County Fermanagh. |
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Yahoo News |
1:16pm PDT |
Cocaine may cause heart attack symptoms
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Summary: AP - Younger ER patients with heart attack symptoms should be asked if they've recently used cocaine, which can cause similar chest pain, the American Heart Association warns doctors. For these patients, honesty can be a matter of life or death: Some hear |
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Cnn.com |
12:59pm PDT |
Seventh body pulled from crane collapse site |
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Summary: A fifth body has been pulled from the site where a crane collapsed Saturday on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York police said Monday.
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Yahoo News |
12:52pm PDT |
Market cuts losses, Dow gains over 100 points
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Stocks sharply cut losses and the Dow
gained more than 100 points late on Monday as investors took
comfort from the Federal Reserve's efforts to ease fallout from
the demise of Bear Stearns Cos. Inc and provided more cash for
the financial s |
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12:43pm PDT |
EU farmers to produce more milk |
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Summary: Europe's dairy farmers are told they can increase the amount of milk the produce to tackle an increase in demand. |
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Cnn.com |
12:40pm PDT |
Dow fights back into the black |
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Summary: Stocks tumbled Monday afternoon as investors continued to mull Bear Stearns' fire sale and emergency moves by the Federal Reserve exacerbated fears about the fallout in financial markets.
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