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3:09pm PDT |
Storms flood Southern states, killing two |
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BBC News |
3:02pm PDT |
Damages due over McCann stories |
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Summary: Four UK newspapers are expected to pay damages to Madeleine McCann's parents after settling a libel action. |
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3:01pm PDT |
Workers uncovering mummified dinosaur
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Summary: AP - Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all. |
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3:00pm PDT |
Clinton's first lady papers to go public
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Summary: AP - Thousands of pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's schedules as first lady are being released to the public after months of pressure and criticism that the Clintons were delaying the disclosure. |
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2:58pm PDT |
Record-setting young pilot dies at 26
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Summary: AP - Vicki Van Meter, celebrated for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Crawford County coroner said. She was 26. |
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2:45pm PDT |
Four appear on dissident charges |
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Summary: Four men appear in court in Dublin charged in connection with dissident republican activity. |
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2:40pm PDT |
Celtic stunned by Aberdeen in Cup |
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Summary: Darren Mackie's strike is enough to stun Celtic and seal a Scottish Cup semi-final place for Aberdeen. |
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2:37pm PDT |
Obama battles back in reverend's race row
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Summary: AFP - White House hopeful Barack Obama, swamped in an uproar over incendiary sermons by his former pastor, bid Tuesday to wrench back his fundamental message of racial and political healing. |
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2:22pm PDT |
Teen love caught hanging in the balance
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Summary: AP - Two teenagers, one dangling from a rope tied to an interstate bridge and holding a can of spray paint, did not see Sheriff's Deputy Melissa Myers when she drove up. They never got a chance to express their love with graffiti. |
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2:14pm PDT |
Obama rebukes preacher, urges race healing
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized his preacher's racially
charged sermons but said he could not disown him in a speech
urging Americans to move past their "racial stalemate." |
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2:09pm PDT |
Lynndie England blames media for photos
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Summary: AP - Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German news magazine that she was sorry for appearing in photographs of detainees in the notorious Iraqi prison, and believes the scenes of torture and humiliation served as a |
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2:01pm PDT |
Stocks soar, Dow rises 420 points
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Summary: AP - Wall Street stormed higher Tuesday as investors, optimistic following stronger-than-expected earnings from two big investment banks, were also galvanized by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. |
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Yahoo News |
2:00pm PDT |
Record-setting child pilot dies at 26
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Summary: AP - Vicki Van Meter, who made headlines in the 1990s for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died, an apparent suicide. She was 26. |
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1:55pm PDT |
Justices agree on right to own guns
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Summary: AP - Americans have a right to own guns, Supreme Court justices declared Tuesday in a historic and lively debate that could lead to the most significant interpretation of the Second Amendment since its ratification two centuries ago. |
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Cnn.com |
1:28pm PDT |
FAA expands airline safety inquiry |
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Summary: The nation's air safety watchdog ordered its inspectors Tuesday to reconfirm that airlines are complying with federal rules after revelations that Southwest Airlines flew dozens of aircraft without certain mandatory inspections.
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1:19pm PDT |
Fed delivers 3/4 point cut
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Summary: Reuters - The Federal Reserve on
Tuesday slashed U.S. interest rates by a hefty three-quarters
of a percentage point, giving a lift to a Wall Street already
jubilant over stronger-than-expected investment bank earnings. |
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1:18pm PDT |
Fed cuts funds rate 0.75 point
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Summary: AP - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday slashed a key interest rate by three-fourths of a percentage point, moving aggressively to contain a credit crisis threatening to push the country into a severe recession. |
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Yahoo News |
1:17pm PDT |
McCain wary of Iran's influence in Iraq
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Summary: AP - Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, expressed fresh concern Tuesday about Iran's influence in Iraq and rising sway in Mideast. |
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Cnn.com |
1:17pm PDT |
Dow surges 420 points |
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Summary: Stocks jumped today, with the Dow surging 420 points -- its biggest one-day point gain in 5½ years -- after the Federal Reserve cut the fed funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, CNNMoney.com reports.
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1:13pm PDT |
Obama confronts racial division
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama confronted the nation's racial divide head-on Tuesday, tackling both black grievance and white resentment in a bold effort to quiet a campaign uproar over race and his former pastor's incendiary statements. |
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1:12pm PDT |
Judge says Mills twisted the truth
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A judge's ruling in the bitter Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce case shed new light Tuesday on a miserable marriage, saying Mills twisted the truth when convenient and made "exorbitant" financial demands. |
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Yahoo News |
1:11pm PDT |
Arctic sea ice builds, but vulnerable
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Summary: AP - Critical Arctic sea ice this winter made a tenuous partial recovery from last summer's record melt, federal scientists said Tuesday. But that's an illusion, like a Hollywood movie set, scientist Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center s |
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Yahoo News |
1:11pm PDT |
Stocks surges after Fed move
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Summary: AP - Wall Street stormed higher Tuesday as investors, optimistic following stronger-than-expected earnings from two big investment banks, were also galvanized by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. |
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Yahoo News |
1:08pm PDT |
Yankees pay homage to Va. Tech victims
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Summary: AP - The New York Yankees made a pilgrimage Tuesday to the Virginia Tech memorial dedicated to the campus shooting victims. Along with about 200 onlookers, the Yankees viewed 32 stone memorials to the victims of the shooting rampage on April 16 at the Bla |
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Cnn.com |
1:06pm PDT |
Justices hear arguments on owning guns |
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Summary: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took up gun control, hearing arguments concerning a District of Columbia ban on handguns more than two centuries after the Second Amendment gave Americans the right to "keep and bear arms."
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Cnn.com |
1:03pm PDT |
Exclusive commentary: End Musharraf rule |
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Summary: Monday was a momentous day for the people of Pakistan, but a bittersweet day for me.
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BBC News |
12:35pm PDT |
Vote fraud controls 'not working' |
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Summary: Safeguards to combat voting fraud are 'easily bypassed' because of weaknesses in the registration system, it was claimed. |
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Cnn.com |
12:34pm PDT |
Mastermind admits stolen body parts scheme |
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Cnn.com |
12:32pm PDT |
Obama: Move beyond race |
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Summary: Barack Obama addressed the race issue head on today, urging Americans to reject the "racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years." Obama's speech comes after spending the weekend on the defensive over racially charged statements from his former ministe |
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BBC News |
12:23pm PDT |
Malaysian PM unveils new cabinet |
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Summary: Malaysian PM Abdullah Badawi unveils a slimmed-down cabinet in response to last week's poor election results. |
