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2:17pm PDT |
Burglar plays dead at funeral home
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A burglar who broke into a funeral home tried to fool police by playing dead, but two things gave him away. First, he breathed. Plus, he wore grungy clothes rather than the Sunday best of those settling in for eternal rest. |
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2:02pm PDT |
McCain draws up list of possible VPs |
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Summary: A prominent Christian conservative leader has reproached Sen. John McCain for not reaching out to conservatives and accused him of dividing the Republican Party.
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1:56pm PDT |
United grounds Boeing 777 fleet |
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Summary: United Airlines cancels 31 flights after grounding its entire fleet of Boeing 777 aircraft. |
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1:52pm PDT |
Bernanke says recession possible
(AP)
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Summary: AP - For the first time, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged the U.S. could reel into recession from the powerful punches of housing, credit and financial crises. Yet, he was coy about the Fed's next move. |
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1:51pm PDT |
NATO aide: No deal on Ukraine, Georgia
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A NATO official said Wednesday he did not expect that Georgia and Ukraine would be placed on track for membership in the military alliance at the organization's summit. |
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1:50pm PDT |
Mugabe's party loses grip on parliament
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Robert Mugabe's long-ruling party lost its parliamentary majority Wednesday, bolstering opposition claims that impoverished Zimbabweans voted for change in this struggling southern African nation. |
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1:43pm PDT |
Liverpool clinch draw at Arsenal |
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Summary: Liverpool frustrate Arsenal as they hold them to a 1-1 draw in the Champions League quarter-final first leg at the Emirates. |
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1:38pm PDT |
Fenerbahce 2-1 Chelsea |
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Summary: Fenerbahce mount a stunning comeback to shock Chelsea in their Champions League quarter-final first leg. |
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1:35pm PDT |
Labor union, superdelegate endorse Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama received endorsements Wednesday from a labor union and a Democratic superdelegate, as he tried to regain the presidential campaign momentum he enjoyed before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won two large states last month. |
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1:31pm PDT |
King slaying stained Memphis for years
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Joe Warren dropped his head to his hands, sobbing as he remembered back 40 years to the bitter garbage workers strike that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis — and to his death. |
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1:30pm PDT |
Wall Street pulls back as oil spikes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street turned lower Wednesday as investors worried that a sharp jump in oil prices could be another sign that consumers are under stress in an economy that is already showing signs of a recession. |
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1:07pm PDT |
Stones on show at film premiere |
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Summary: The Rolling Stones attend the premiere of their "rockumentary", Shine A Light, in London's West End. |
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12:47pm PDT |
Call to reject Burma constitution |
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Summary: Burma's National League for Democracy urges voters to reject the army-backed constitution in a referendum. |
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12:46pm PDT |
Living with autism |
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Summary: What is life like for the people with the condition? |
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12:46pm PDT |
U.S. troop cut in Iraq to continue
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Violence in Baghdad and southern
Iraq will not derail U.S. plans to withdraw combat troops from
the war zone through July, the top U.S. military officer said
on Wednesday. |
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12:36pm PDT |
Knicks hire Donnie Walsh as president
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Donnie Walsh was hired Wednesday as president of the New York Knicks, and said he would wait a few days before deciding on Isiah Thomas' future with the organization. |
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12:35pm PDT |
Obama would consider Gore for major post
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming. |
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Cnn.com |
12:31pm PDT |
Pilots: Cockpit dangers being ignored |
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Summary: The pilot says his cockpit window "shattered like a spider web" during flight two years ago, and he immediately put on goggles and an oxygen mask before making an emergency landing. It's a problem, one pilot group says, the industry has virtually ignored. |
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12:19pm PDT |
NATO expansion rifts widen as summit opens
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The United States pressed for Ukraine and Georgia to be put on track to join NATO as a summit of the alliance began here Wednesday, while key European nations objected to the move. |
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12:05pm PDT |
Three 'eco-town' sites rejected |
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Summary: Ministers have rejected plans for three "eco-towns" in Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Derbyshire, the BBC learns. |
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12:04pm PDT |
UK cruise ship is held in Madeira |
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Summary: Efforts have begun to secure the release of a UK cruise ship being detained by police in Madeira. |
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12:00pm PDT |
Alitalia boss quits as talks end |
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Summary: Alitalia boss Maurizio Prato resigns as talks about a takeover by Air France-KLM are abandoned. |
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11:58am PDT |
Tancock races to new world record |
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Summary: Liam Tancock sets a new world 50m backstroke record of 24.47 seconds at the British Olympic trials in Sheffield on Wednesday night. |
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Cnn.com |
11:30am PDT |
FBI: Airport suspect planned to build bomb |
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Summary: The man accused of trying to sneak bomb-making materials on a flight from Orlando to Jamaica admitted he planned to build a bomb after he landed, according to an FBI agent.
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11:22am PDT |
Mugabe loses control of Zimbabwe parliament
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President Robert Mugabe fought to
survive the biggest crisis of his rule on Wednesday after
losing control of Zimbabwe's parliament for the first time
since taking power after independence. |
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Cnn.com |
11:20am PDT |
'Pig Book' names congressional porkers |
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Summary: A watchdog group critical of pork barrel spending released its latest findings Wednesday targeting the top Congressional "porkers."
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11:20am PDT |
Obama: I'd hire Gore
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday he talks regularly with former vice president Al Gore and would consider putting him in a Cabinet-level position or higher. |
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11:18am PDT |
McCain compiles list of possible veeps
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. John McCain is in the "embryonic stages" of selecting a vice presidential running mate and he hopes to unveil his choice before the Republican National Convention to avoid the type of problems that plagued Dan Quayle's debut two decades ago. |
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BBC News |
11:14am PDT |
Church rejects women bishops bill |
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Summary: Leaders of the Church in Wales vote against a bill to allow women priests to be ordained as bishops. |
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11:13am PDT |
"Ask Zawarhi" responses coming soon from Qaeda leader
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawarhi's
responses to Internet questions submitted by the public will be
released soon, probably within the next three days, a terrorism
monitoring service said on Wednesday. |
