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Cnn.com |
10:32am PDT |
Marine: Why am I not a citizen yet? |
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Summary: Look into his face. He's put his life on the line in Iraq and he'll soon do the same in Afghanistan. Yet this decorated Marine is not an American. He's a citizen of El Salvador -- one of 20,000 "green-card warriors" serving in the U.S. military.
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Cnn.com |
10:31am PDT |
Officials: Woman dies after ray strikes her |
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Summary: A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
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Cnn.com |
10:31am PDT |
Officials: Woman dies after stingray strikes her |
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Summary: A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
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Cnn.com |
10:10am PDT |
Drug runners building $1M drug subs |
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Summary: Sophisticated submarine-like boats are the latest tool drug runners are using to bring cocaine north from Colombia, U.S. officials say.
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BBC News |
10:00am PDT |
Too many short sentences - Straw |
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Summary: Too many people are being given short jail sentences, clogging up the system, says Justice Secretary Jack Straw. |
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9:59am PDT |
Two men die after lorries collide |
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Summary: Two men die following a collision between two lorries on the A5 between Omagh and Newtownstewart. |
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Yahoo News |
9:53am PDT |
Democrats debate Mich. delegate split
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday splitting Michigan's delegates with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a fair way of resolving the dispute over how to handle the state at the Democratic National Convention. |
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Yahoo News |
9:50am PDT |
China says opened fire on Tibetan protesters
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese police opened fire and wounded
four protesters earlier this week in unrest in a Tibetan town,
its first admission that lethal weapons were used by its
security forces to crack down on anti-government
demonstrations. |
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Yahoo News |
9:48am PDT |
Iraq war drag on economy: Obama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama said the $500 billion cost
of the Iraq war is a drag on the U.S. economy and attempted to
lay some of the blame for it on Republican rival John McCain. |
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BBC News |
9:42am PDT |
Mugabe rival condemns vote plans |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition leader condemns plans to count presidential ballots centrally, in case this helps rigging. |
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Cnn.com |
9:29am PDT |
Expert: U.S. in 'recession of choice' |
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Summary: Congress and the Fed missed chances to keep the country from falling into recession by acting too slowly, according to a well-respected economist. CNNMoney.com reports that Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, say |
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9:23am PDT |
Hundreds face cancer tests checks |
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Summary: Letters have been sent to 528 patients after it was revealed mistakes were made in prostate cancer tests. |
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BBC News |
9:22am PDT |
Air passengers' safety 'at risk' |
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Summary: Air traffic controllers are under such pressure to maximise the number of landings, passengers are at risk, the BBC is told. |
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Yahoo News |
9:14am PDT |
Scooter Libby loses law license
(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. |
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Yahoo News |
8:57am PDT |
Soggy Midwest braces for more flooding
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents warily watched as rivers continued to rise Thursday from heavy storms that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the Midwest and left behind more than a dozen deaths. |
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BBC News |
8:52am PDT |
Police 'shot at Tibet protesters' |
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Summary: Chinese police shot and wounded four people during Tibetan protests in Sichuan province, state media says. |
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Cnn.com |
8:48am PDT |
Troops' electrocution deaths probed |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
8:48am PDT |
Panel probes troops' electrocution deaths in Iraq |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:39am PDT |
Bin Laden tape voice 'authentic' |
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Summary: US intelligence agents believe the voice on a tape purportedly from Osama Bin Laden was authentic, the CIA says. |
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8:37am PDT |
Brothers face Russia spy charges |
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Summary: Russia charges two men with British links with industrial spying, threatening to further worsen the countries' ties. |
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BBC News |
8:29am PDT |
Summer Wine star Brian Wilde dies |
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Summary: Actor Brian Wilde, who played Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine and Barraclough in Porridge, passes away. |
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Cnn.com |
8:27am PDT |
Rising waters threaten more floods |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:27am PDT |
Bank bosses meet governor King |
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Summary: The bosses of major UK banks are meeting Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to seek reassurances over funding. |
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8:19am PDT |
Palestinian talks in Yemen 'fail' |
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Summary: Talks between Fatah and Hamas, have collapsed, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:11am PDT |
U.N. council extends Afghanistan mandate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. Security Council
unanimously agreed on Thursday to extend the U.N. mandate in
Afghanistan where NATO-led forces are struggling to overcome a
surprisingly fierce Taliban insurgency. |
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BBC News |
7:43am PDT |
Russia spying charge for brothers |
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Summary: Russia charges two men with British links with industrial spying, after raids on petroleum giant BP. |
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Yahoo News |
7:40am PDT |
Stocks rebound after Wednesday's drop
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks rebounded Thursday after the previous session's big drop, with investors eager to take advantage of bargains and cheered by a milder-than-expected drop in manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia region. The Dow Jones industrial average rose |
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BBC News |
7:39am PDT |
Summer Wine star Wilde dies |
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Summary: Actor Brian Wilde, who played Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine and Barraclough in Porridge, passes away. |
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Cnn.com |
7:31am PDT |
Scooter Libby gets disbarred |
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Summary: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was disbarred from practicing law in the nation's capital on Thursday.
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BBC News |
7:31am PDT |
Fish key to reef climate survival |
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Summary: As climate change and pollution threaten coral reefs, fish may be vital to their survival, scientists say. |
