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3:17pm PDT |
Clinton unveils new stimulus package
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a second economic stimulus
package on Thursday as a new poll showed her maintaining her
lead over Barack Obama among Democrats. |
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3:15pm PDT |
Saturn moon may have ocean of water
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scientists say they have found the best evidence yet that an ocean of liquid water may be hidden below the surface of Saturn's giant moon Titan. |
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3:04pm PDT |
Judge allows questioning in Clinton suit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A battle over Hillary Rodham Clinton's record as first lady broke out on two fronts Thursday, as a federal judge stepped into a dispute over the handling of still-unreleased Clinton phone logs and Barack Obama's campaign challenged her record on trad |
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3:03pm PDT |
Obama ties economic woes to Iraq war
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama blamed the Iraq war for higher oil prices and skyrocketing debt Thursday as he sought to tie the unpopular war to the slumping economy in working-class West Virginia. |
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Cnn.com |
3:02pm PDT |
Woman on boat dies after ray strikes her |
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Summary: A spotted eagle ray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys today and struck a woman who was on a boat with her husband and children, pushing her backwards onto the boat deck and killing her, officials said. A state official said the woman died when sh |
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2:56pm PDT |
Police hunt for missing teenager |
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Summary: Ninety police officers and other rescuers take part in a search for a missing teenage girl in Devon. |
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Cnn.com |
2:50pm PDT |
NYC crane inspector charged in collapse |
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2:22pm PDT |
Clinton calls for $30 billion housing fund
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential
hopeful Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for a second
stimulus package, including a $30 billion emergency housing
fund, to help boost the ailing U.S. economy. |
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2:15pm PDT |
Bin Laden urges jihad for Palestinians
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Osama bin Laden lashed out Thursday at Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian lands. |
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2:13pm PDT |
Banks may get more help |
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Summary: The Bank of England considers a request by Britain's big banks to reform the way it provides emergency funding. |
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2:13pm PDT |
King may give more help to banks |
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Summary: The Bank of England considers a request for an emergency fund to deal with financial crises like the credit crunch. |
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BBC News |
2:13pm PDT |
King may help banks more |
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Summary: Bosses of Britain's biggest banks are optimistic that they are going to get extra help from the Bank of England. |
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2:10pm PDT |
McCain campaign suspends staffer for race video
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican John McCain's
presidential campaign on Thursday suspended a staffer for
sending a racially charged video involving Democrat Barack
Obama and his controversial preacher. |
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2:09pm PDT |
Stingray kills woman on boat in Fla.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 75-pound stingray killed a Michigan woman Thursday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode a boat in the Florida Keys, officials said. |
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2:08pm PDT |
Weary Midwesterners battle rising rivers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With more than a dozen people killed by floodwaters and rivers still rising, weary Midwesterners on Thursday weighed not just the prospect of a sodden cleanup but the likelihood that their communities could be inundated again. |
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Cnn.com |
1:58pm PDT |
Purported bin Laden tape: Iraq a 'perfect base' |
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Summary: Al-Jazeera broadcast on Thursday an audiotape on which a voice identified as Osama bin Laden declares "Iraq is the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine."
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1:53pm PDT |
ITV wins Champions League rights |
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Summary: ITV retains the rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League matches as part of a new deal for 2009 - 2012. |
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1:53pm PDT |
Football: Champs League for ITV |
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Summary: ITV retains the rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League matches as part of a new deal for 2009 - 2012. |
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1:53pm PDT |
ITV retains Champions League |
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Summary: ITV retains the rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League matches as part of a new deal for 2009 - 2012. |
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1:52pm PDT |
China pours troops into Tibet, admits shooting protesters
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Thousands of soldiers were seen in Lhasa on Thursday amid reports of a huge military build-up as China admitted for the first time it had shot Tibetan protesters. |
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1:51pm PDT |
Deport paedophile 'on register' |
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Summary: A paedophile who moved to Australia as a child and returned to the UK will be put on the sex offenders' register. |
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1:51pm PDT |
Statehouses often look like frat houses
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Of all the wisecracks heard in the marble halls of New York's Capitol after Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall in a call-girl scandal, one jest enlightened as much as it stung: Spitzer's got to be the only guy in Albany who PAYS for sex. |
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1:50pm PDT |
Livingstone inspirational - PM |
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Summary: Gordon Brown praises London Mayor Ken Livingstone for being an "inspirational" figure to the city. |
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Cnn.com |
1:49pm PDT |
Woman dies after ray strikes her |
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Summary: A spotted eagle ray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys today and struck a woman who was on a boat with her husband and children, pushing her backwards onto the boat deck and killing her, officials said. A Florida official said the woman died when |
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Yahoo News |
1:41pm PDT |
Court bans Libby from practicing law
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was banned Thursday from practicing law in the nation's capital following his perjury conviction in the case of a CIA operative's leaked identity. The disbarment order of the District of Columbia C |
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Yahoo News |
1:38pm PDT |
Wall St surges on hopes of easing credit crunch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Stocks jumped on Thursday, capping a
tumultuous week, on optimism that giving Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac a bigger role in the mortgage market will ease a credit
crunch that claimed Bear Stearns as its biggest victim. |
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Yahoo News |
1:36pm PDT |
China says its police shot Tibetan protesters
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese police shot and wounded four
protesters this week in an ethnic Tibetan community in the
province of Sichuan, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:34pm PDT |
No deal reached on Dems' Michigan revote |
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Summary: Michigan's State Senate adjourned today without reaching an agreement to schedule a new Democratic primary on June 3. The Legislature is now on recess for two weeks, and by the time lawmakers return, it will likely be too late to approve and organize a ne |
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Cnn.com |
1:34pm PDT |
No deal reached on Michigan revote |
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Summary: Michigan's State Senate adjourned today without reaching an agreement to schedule a new Democratic primary on June 3. The Legislature is now on recess for two weeks, and by the time lawmakers return, it will likely be too late to approve and organize a ne |
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BBC News |
1:33pm PDT |
AB Volvo's Iraq kickbacks penalty |
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Summary: AB Volvo agrees to pay millions of dollars in fines for its part in Iraq's oil for food programme. |
