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1:59pm PDT |
Stocks rise in erratic trading after economic, earnings data
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Summary: AP - Wall Street closed an erratic session moderately higher Tuesday after investors sorted through a mixed batch of data that included a rebound in New York manufacturing, signs of rising inflation and uneven first-quarter earnings. The market also had i |
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1:59pm PDT |
Texas defends separation of polygamist sect kids from moms
(AP)
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Summary: AP - State officials Tuesday defended their decision to suddenly separate mothers from many of the children taken in a raid on a polygamist ranch in West Texas. |
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1:55pm PDT |
Aldershot back in the league after 16 years |
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Summary: Aldershot secure their return to the Football League with a draw at play-off hopefuls Exeter. |
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1:52pm PDT |
Six held in 'dissident inquiry' |
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Summary: Six people are arrested by detectives investigating dissident republican activity, it is understood. |
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1:51pm PDT |
Plane veers off runway in Congo, bursts into flames
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Congolese jetliner with about 85 people aboard crashed on takeoff Tuesday, careening off a runway into a busy neighborhood and bursting into flames, officials said. |
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1:45pm PDT |
Airliner hits houses in DR Congo |
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Summary: At least nine people die when an airliner ploughs into housing while trying to take off in Goma in the DR Congo. |
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1:45pm PDT |
A former nanny for Rob Lowe claims abuse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One of three former employees being sued by Rob Lowe says the actor sexually abused her for years but she continued to work for him and his wife because she loved their two boys and needed the job. |
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1:41pm PDT |
Bombings kill nearly 60 in Sunni areas of Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Bombings blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq tore through market areas in Baghdad and outside the capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people and shattering weeks of relative calm in Sunni-dominated areas. |
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1:39pm PDT |
Pope arrives in U.S., says ashamed by sex abuse
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict arrived in Washington
on Tuesday for his first papal visit to the United States due
to include a United Nations address and discussions about a
sexual abuse scandal that left him "deeply ashamed." |
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1:38pm PDT |
'D.C. Madam' sighs as jury finds her guilty |
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1:36pm PDT |
Group finds 6 million pounds of trash on world's beaches
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Summary: AP - The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten sea |
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1:32pm PDT |
Carter embraces Hamas official at West Bank meeting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former President Carter angered Israel's government Tuesday by embracing a Hamas politician during a visit to the West Bank, ignoring Israeli and U.S. designation of the Islamic militants as a terror group. Israel accused Carter, the broker of the fi |
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1:15pm PDT |
Obama calls elitism attack "political silly season"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential hopeful
Barack Obama, accused of being elitist for remarks he made
about small-town American voters, said on Tuesday the slap at
his background is amusing and signals a nation in the midst of
"political silly season." |
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1:08pm PDT |
Bush greets pope at start of U.S. visit |
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Summary: Pope Benedict XVI has touched down at Andrews Air Force Base to start a six-day, two-city journey that will take him from the White House to the halls of the United Nations. Security precautions have been taken in the air, on land and in the water for the |
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1:05pm PDT |
Ex-NFL star says disorder led to Russian roulette |
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Summary: Former NFL star Herschel Walker reveals in a new book that he has a form of mental illness called dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. He describes about a dozen different personality facets and says one caused |
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12:59pm PDT |
Six questioned over serious crime |
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Summary: Detectives investigating serious crime arrest five men and a woman under the Terrorism Act. |
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12:57pm PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition says open to run-off vote
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai signalled Tuesday his willingness to participate in a run-off against President Robert Mugabe if international observers were allowed to monitor proceedings. |
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12:56pm PDT |
Pope Benedict lands for six-day U.S. visit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pope Benedict
landed in Washington on Tuesday for his first papal visit to
the United States, during which he will address the United
Nations and try to heal wounds from a clerical sexual abuse
scandal. |
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12:51pm PDT |
Bush plans White House speech Wednesday on climate change
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a Rose Garden speech Wednesday, President Bush will outline the way he thinks the United States can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and challenge lawmakers on climate change legislation up for debate in June. |
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12:45pm PDT |
Plane crashes in DR Congo; at least 75 dead |
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Summary: A plane crashed Tuesday in a northeastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 78 people on board, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
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12:38pm PDT |
Delta, Northwest seeking support for merger
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Executives of Delta Air Lines Inc hope
to win over Northwest Airlines Corp pilots, who oppose Delta's
bid to buy Northwest for more than $3 billion to create the
world's biggest airline by traffic. |
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12:27pm PDT |
Legendary Disney animator dies at 95 |
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12:08pm PDT |
Headwinds for Delta-Northwest deal |
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Summary: Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines have finally agreed to a merger. But it could be a bumpy ride before a deal is officially completed.
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12:07pm PDT |
Congo plane crashes at end of runway and bursts into flames
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Congolese jetliner with about 85 people on board failed to take off Tuesday from an airport in this eastern town, slamming into a busy market neighborhood at the end of the runway and bursting into flames, officials said. |
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11:29am PDT |
British music festival is criticized for inviting Jay-Z
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Organizers of one of Britain's best-known music festivals on Tuesday defended their decision to book Jay-Z as their headline act after Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher blamed the U.S. rapper for disappointing ticket sales. |
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11:23am PDT |
U.S. military holds hearing in first contractor case
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. military held a pre-trial
hearing on Tuesday for an interpreter accused of a stabbing in
Iraq, the first attempt to apply military law to civilian
contractors working for U.S. forces in Iraq. |
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11:17am PDT |
Lack of progress on bed blocking |
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Summary: The problem of bed blocking has not improved in hospitals in Wales over the last two years, a review concludes. |
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11:05am PDT |
Zimbabwe general strike flops, Tsvangirai warms on run-off
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Zimbabwe opposition's campaign to force the release of results from last month's presidential election suffered a fresh blow on Tuesday when a call for a general strike went largely unheeded. |
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10:57am PDT |
Train deaths pair 'may have argued' |
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Summary: A man and a woman who died when they were struck by an 80mph train may have been arguing moments before. |
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10:40am PDT |
McCain proposes consumer tax cuts to boost economy
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential hopeful John
McCain proposed a summer gas tax reduction and other tax cuts
on Tuesday in a bid to reassure voters he would help them
navigate an ailing economy. |
