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BBC News |
11:59pm PDT |
Afghan suicide blast kills three |
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Summary: A suicide bomber kills at least three police officers in an attack in southern Afghanistan, officials say. |
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Yahoo News |
11:41pm PDT |
Poll: 81 percent think US on wrong track
(AP)
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Summary: AP - More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early 1990s, according to a new survey. |
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BBC News |
11:21pm PDT |
Dead soldiers to be repatriated |
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Summary: The bodies of two marines killed while on patrol in Afghanistan are due to be flown home. |
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Yahoo News |
10:56pm PDT |
Tornado sweeps through Little Rock, Ark.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A tornado hit parts of Little Rock and its suburbs Thursday, injuring an unknown number of people while damaging businesses and downing trees and power lines. |
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BBC News |
10:50pm PDT |
Soca rejects NI cash crime fears |
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Summary: The crime agency Soca rejects claims that it will only target major criminals in Northern Ireland. |
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BBC News |
10:32pm PDT |
Prosecutors quiz Samsung boss |
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Summary: The boss of South Korea's Samsung Group is questioned by prosecutors over corruption allegations. |
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Yahoo News |
10:32pm PDT |
Petraeus to update Congress on Iraq
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S.
commander in Iraq, will not promise Congress large troop
withdrawals beyond July, saying it is too soon to make
decisions about the second half of the year, defense officials
say. |
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Yahoo News |
10:23pm PDT |
Bush, Putin at odds near end of terms
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush, fresh from securing full NATO support for his missile defense plans for Europe and a pledge to admit former Soviet republics, has plenty to discuss with Russia's Vladimir Putin. |
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Cnn.com |
10:21pm PDT |
Storm whips through Little Rock |
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Summary: A possible tornado caused "quite a bit of damage" near Little Rock, Arkansas on Thursday night, a local government spokesman said.
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Cnn.com |
10:19pm PDT |
Raids target Zimbabwe opposition party |
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Summary: Zimbabwe government forces today began cracking down on the main opposition party and foreign journalists -- including a New York Times reporter -- hours after officials announced another delay in releasing election results. A State Department spokesman c |
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Yahoo News |
10:18pm PDT |
King still roils U.S. politics 40 years after death
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Forty years after Martin Luther King
Jr. was shot to death in a racially charged assassination, the
civil rights leader is still roiling American politics. |
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Yahoo News |
10:10pm PDT |
Clinton and Obama spar over long Democratic contest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Depending on who is talking, Hillary
Clinton should either drop out of the race for the U.S.
Democratic presidential nomination for the good of the party or
fight on because all voters have a right to be heard. |
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Yahoo News |
10:02pm PDT |
Bengals cut receiver Henry after arrest
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry lost his job while in jail awaiting arraignment on assault charges on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:59pm PDT |
Zanu-PF to discuss Mugabe future |
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Summary: Zimbabwean President Mugabe's party will meet to discuss strategy with presidential election results still undeclared. |
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BBC News |
9:59pm PDT |
Zanu-PF meets to discuss strategy |
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Summary: Zimbabwean President Mugabe's party will meet to discuss strategy with presidential election results still undeclared. |
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Yahoo News |
9:23pm PDT |
Cops: Man threatens Va. Tech-like attack
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday. |
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BBC News |
9:18pm PDT |
Concern for jailed China activist |
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Summary: A Chinese court's jailing of a human rights activist sparks criticism from Western leaders and rights groups. |
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Cnn.com |
8:27pm PDT |
Commentary: A view from the CDC on autism |
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Summary: This week, the world has come together to focus on a major public health issue that affects thousands of children and their families around the world -- autism.
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Cnn.com |
8:27pm PDT |
Commentary: A view from the CDC |
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Summary: This week, the world has come together to focus on a major public health issue that affects thousands of children and their families around the world -- autism.
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BBC News |
8:18pm PDT |
Sex offenders face net use curbs |
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Summary: Sex offenders' e-mails are to be passed on to social networking sites, under new government guidelines. |
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BBC News |
8:08pm PDT |
Iraq sculpture destroyed by fire |
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Summary: A fire destroys a £2,000 sculpture put together out of oil drums and cardboard boxes in a London park. |
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Yahoo News |
7:46pm PDT |
Hawk swoops, attacks girl at Fenway Park
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 13-year-old girl touring Fenway Park on a school trip was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from her scalp Thursday. She wasn't seriously hurt, but some observers saw an omen for a certain New York Yankees slugger in the attack |
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Yahoo News |
7:27pm PDT |
Obama's support among Democrats softens: poll
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential candidate Barack
Obama's support among Democrats has softened over the last
month, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on
Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:25pm PDT |
FAA inspectors say concerns ignored
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The whistleblowers who exposed maintenance and inspection problems at Southwest Airlines told Congress their jobs were threatened and their reports of noncompliance were ignored for years. |
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BBC News |
7:24pm PDT |
Naomi bailed after row on plane |
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Summary: Supermodel Naomi Campbell is bailed on suspicion of assaulting a police office at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. |
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BBC News |
7:20pm PDT |
Newspaper journalists on strike |
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Summary: Journalists at Express Newspapers are staging the first of three 24-hour strikes. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15pm PDT |
Census stumbles over high-tech counters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people the old-fashioned way — with paper and pencil. |
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Cnn.com |
7:14pm PDT |
250,000 get by on monthly food drops, in cloth huts |
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Summary: The woman walked into the sprawling camp outside the Somali capital carrying her month-old baby, with her other seven children in tow. After the death of her husband in the country's ongoing violence, the woman and her kids joined some 250,000 others in w |
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Yahoo News |
7:10pm PDT |
81 percent of Americans think country on "wrong track"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Four out of five Americans believe
things are "on the wrong track" in the United States, the
gloomiest outlook in about 20 years, according to a New York
Times/CBS News poll released on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
7:08pm PDT |
Lincoln letter sets record price |
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Summary: A famous 1864 letter from Abraham Lincoln sells for a record $3.4m (£1.7m) at auction in New York. |
