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Yahoo News |
3:45pm PDT |
Necklace is oldest gold artifact in the Americas
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A gold necklace found near Lake
Titicaca in Peru dates back more than 4,000 years and is the
oldest gold artifact found in the Americas, researchers said on
Monday. |
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BBC News |
3:38pm PDT |
Anxious wait for Zimbabwe results |
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Summary: Zimbabweans anxiously await final election results, which have been slow to emerge since the close of polling. |
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3:29pm PDT |
Judge says courts 'overstretched' |
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Summary: The most senior judge in England and Wales says a "stream" of legislation has put pressure on the criminal justice system. |
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Yahoo News |
3:28pm PDT |
Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels
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Summary: AP - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state. |
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Yahoo News |
3:23pm PDT |
Nationals top Phillies 11-6 on 5-run 9th
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Washington Nationals took their late-inning act on the road. Nick Johnson's tiebreaking RBI double off Tom Gordon highlighted a five-run ninth inning and the Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 11-6 Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:21pm PDT |
O'Jays son dies after taken from jail
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39. |
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Cnn.com |
3:20pm PDT |
Heart Association: Hands-only CPR works |
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Cnn.com |
3:14pm PDT |
Member of '80s R&B trio dies in jail |
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3:02pm PDT |
Father drowns 3 children in Baltimore hotel bathtub
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Maryland man who was estranged
from his wife drowned their three young children in a Baltimore
hotel bathtub over the weekend, police said on Monday. |
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BBC News |
2:29pm PDT |
A long wait |
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Summary: Zimbabwe woman says result delays prompt concern |
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Cnn.com |
2:22pm PDT |
Dems not sold on money changes |
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Summary: Top Democrats dismissed the Bush administration's plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system as inadequate Monday, with one leading senator calling the proposals a "wild pitch."
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Cnn.com |
2:22pm PDT |
Dems not sold on financial overhaul |
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Summary: Top Democrats dismissed the Bush administration's plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system as inadequate Monday, with one leading senator calling the proposals a "wild pitch."
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Yahoo News |
2:21pm PDT |
Lehman to raise $3 billion capital
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc ,
an investment bank beset by rumors of not having enough
funding, said it plans to raise $3 billion of capital. |
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Yahoo News |
2:12pm PDT |
Bills linked to DB Cooper up for auction
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A boy who found the lone piece of evidence linked to the world's only unsolved skyjacking is now a 30-something father of five and has decided to start selling his treasure. Brian Ingram was an 8-year-old on a family camping trip when he discovered t |
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2:11pm PDT |
Experts now recommend hands-only CPR
(AP)
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Summary: AP - You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR — rapid, deep presses on the victim's chest until help arrives — works just as wel |
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2:11pm PDT |
Second female senator endorses Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama secured the backing of a second female senator on Monday as a top supporter of rival Hillary Rodham Clinton raised expectations for Obama in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary. |
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2:11pm PDT |
Cuba allows citizens to stay in hotels
(AP)
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Summary: AP - New President Raul Castro's government has lifted a ban on Cubans staying at hotels previously reserved for foreigners, ending another restriction that had been especially irksome to citizens. |
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Yahoo News |
2:10pm PDT |
Clinton criticizes proposed Fed overhaul
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday criticized the Bush administration's plan to overhaul regulation of U.S. financial institutions, saying the proposal "comes late and falls short." |
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Yahoo News |
2:09pm PDT |
Hud chief resigns amid criminal probe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, his tenure tarnished by allegations of political favoritism and a criminal investigation, announced his resignation Monday amid the wreckage of the national housing crisis. |
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Yahoo News |
2:08pm PDT |
Ancient gold necklace discovered in Peru
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The earliest known gold jewelry made in the Americas has been discovered in southern Peru. The gold necklace, made nearly 4,000 years ago, was found in a burial site near Lake Titicaca, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the Nati |
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BBC News |
2:05pm PDT |
French aid staff freed from jail |
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Summary: Six members of a French charity convicted of kidnapping 103 children in Chad are released from prison. |
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Yahoo News |
2:05pm PDT |
Royals edge Tigers 5-4 to spoil opener
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The $138 million Tigers opened with a thud. Tony Pena Jr. hit a two-out, tiebreaking single in the 11th inning and the Kansas City Royals held on to beat Detroit 5-4 in Monday's opener. |
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1:56pm PDT |
Advance Auto says data on 56,000 customers exposed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Advance Auto Parts Inc, a leading auto
parts retailer, said on Monday that a "network intrusion," now
under criminal investigation, had exposed financial information
on up to 56,000 of its customers. |
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Cnn.com |
1:46pm PDT |
Man charged with murder days after release |
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Yahoo News |
1:44pm PDT |
Riot police in Harare townships amid poll tensions
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Riot police in armored carriers were
deployed in two of Harare's restive townships on Monday night
amid long delays in issuing Zimbabwe's election results which
have raised tensions. |
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Yahoo News |
1:26pm PDT |
Truce calms Iraq, weakens prime minister
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sought to rein in his gunmen after a week of battles that claimed about 400 lives. |
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Yahoo News |
1:21pm PDT |
Bush starts Europe tour in NATO aspirant Ukraine
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush arrived in Ukraine Monday at the start of a tour to push NATO allies for more support in Afghanistan and to reach a compromise with Russia on defence plans. |
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Yahoo News |
1:18pm PDT |
Married troops can live together in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife. |
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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
U.S. defense analyst guilty in China spy case
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. Defense Department analyst
pleaded guilty to passing classified information to an agent
working for the Chinese government, the Justice Department said
on Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:08pm PDT |
Autism mystery remains as numbers grow |
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Summary: The triplets were happy, healthy boys. But at 18 months, one became withdrawn, one screamed at night and one stopped talking. Doctor after doctor told the boys' parents to just wait, but now all are known to have autism -- the neurological disorder that b |
