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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
Bush nominates SBA chief to be housing secretary
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday
nominated the head of the Small Business Administration, Steve
Preston, to lead the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and efforts to shore up the sagging housing market. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09am PDT |
Despite myth, old age is the happiest time, research says
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Newsflash for rock stars and teenagers: It turns out everything doesn't go downhill as we age — the golden years really are golden. |
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Yahoo News |
9:07am PDT |
Carter meets Hamas supremo in Damascus
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter met exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in the Syrian capital on Friday despite strong opposition from Israel and the White House. |
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Yahoo News |
8:59am PDT |
5.2 earthquake rocks large area of Midwest; no major damage
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Friday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage. |
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Yahoo News |
8:56am PDT |
Pope warns against undermining U.N.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Countries that act unilaterally
on the world stage undermine the authority of the United
Nations and weaken the broad consensus needed to confront
global problems, Pope Benedict said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
8:47am PDT |
15-year-old held over forest rape |
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Summary: A 15-year-old boy is arrested by police investigating a serious sexual assault in a west Belfast forest park. |
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Yahoo News |
8:41am PDT |
Report: NYC Freedom Tower plans found in trash
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A homeless man has come forward with two sets of confidential ground zero blueprints that he says were dumped in a Lower Manhattan trash can. |
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BBC News |
8:41am PDT |
Bloody items found in Jersey home |
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Summary: Police in Jersey find blood-stained items in cellars at the former children's home at the centre of child abuse claims. |
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Yahoo News |
8:36am PDT |
Bush says U.S. has acted to boost economy
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. government has already
taken "very effective" action to help boost the slumping U.S.
economy, President George W. Bush said on Friday in a speech to
a U.S. business group. |
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Cnn.com |
8:26am PDT |
Church victim: 'My tears alone spoke' |
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Summary: They endured abuse by the people they trusted the most -- their priests, the same ones who on Sundays talked in church about right and wrong. The pope finally met with them, heard their stories and apologized. One woman simply broke down: "I think just my |
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Cnn.com |
8:26am PDT |
Victim tells pope of altar boy robbed of youth |
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Summary: Bernie McDaid was just 11 when his priest began molesting him. On Thursday, he got something he longed for decades: a meeting with the pope and an apology. "I basically told him that I was an altar boy ... a young boy praying to God at the time that I was |
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BBC News |
8:12am PDT |
Six jailed for supporting terror |
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Summary: Six men convicted of supporting terror via speeches at a London mosque and fundraising are sent to prison. |
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Cnn.com |
8:10am PDT |
Suicide bomb kills 24 in Afghanistan |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:06am PDT |
It's still "the economy, stupid" in Pennsylvania
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - In 1992, Bill Clinton used the
phrase "it's the economy, stupid" to win the White House amid a
recession. Sixteen years later, his wife Hillary Clinton and
Barack Obama are fighting for the Democratic presidential
nomination by promising rel |
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BBC News |
8:03am PDT |
Carter meets Hamas chief in Syria |
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Summary: Former US President Jimmy Carter meets Hamas's political chief in Syria, as an Israeli minister offers talks. |
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Yahoo News |
7:59am PDT |
Carter meets Hamas chief in Syria
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter met
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Friday for talks
expected to focus on ways to include the Islamist group in
efforts to achieve Palestinian-Israeli peace. |
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BBC News |
7:54am PDT |
Heroin death sister found guilty |
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Summary: The half-sister of a teenager killed by heroin is found guilty of neglect, the day after her mother was convicted of the same offence. |
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BBC News |
7:53am PDT |
Pope to speak at United Nations |
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Summary: Pope Benedict XVI arrives at the United Nations in New York on the final stage of his six-day tour of the US. |
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Yahoo News |
7:52am PDT |
Pope to champion human rights in UN address
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pope Benedict XVI was Friday to defend human rights at a landmark speech to the UN General Assembly as part of his ground-breaking and emotional trip to the United States. |
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BBC News |
7:45am PDT |
7/7 accused 'joined weapons camp' |
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Summary: A convicted al-Qaeda terrorist tells a court how one of the men accused of helping the 7 July bombers fired an AK-47 rifle at a secret camp. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition request for vote recount dismissed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A judge has dismissed the Zimbabwean opposition's attempt to block a partial recount of the vote for parliament and president. |
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Cnn.com |
7:38am PDT |
Blog lists 845 deaths and Sharkey, killer of women |
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Summary: Her job was writing about death. But Jill Leovy's newspaper had her ignoring some of the murdered, and that just wasn't right, she felt. So she started blogging. Everybody who died in L.A. would get a story -- and unlike the cops, she'd get their names ri |
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Cnn.com |
7:23am PDT |
Illinois quake sways buildings, shuts airport |
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Summary: People as far away as Tennessee, Michigan and Iowa felt a magnitude-5.2 earthquake, centered in southern Illinois Friday morning. The last time a temblor that strong jolted the Midwest it was 1968.
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BBC News |
7:12am PDT |
Brown stateside |
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Summary: Martha Kearney reflects on PM's trip and trials at home |
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BBC News |
7:11am PDT |
Husband murdered wife's RAF lover |
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Summary: A jilted husband from Sardinia is found guilty of murdering his wife's childhood sweetheart in a jealous rage. |
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BBC News |
7:07am PDT |
France to double food aid budget |
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Summary: France doubles its emergency food aid for poor countries amid sharply rising prices, says President Sarkozy. |
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Cnn.com |
7:03am PDT |
Citigroup cuts 9,000 more jobs |
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Summary: Citigroup delivered yet another devastating quarterly loss Friday, this time losing more than $5 billion due to troubling results in its fixed-income business and higher consumer credit costs, adding it would also cut an additional 9,000 jobs.
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Yahoo News |
7:02am PDT |
Israel to build 100 settlement homes, including in West Bank
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Israeli government revealed plans Friday to build 100 homes in two Jewish settlements — one of them deep in the West Bank — in violation of its pledge to freeze settlement expansion. |
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BBC News |
7:02am PDT |
Stars defend Tube suicide comedy |
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Summary: The Office actor Mackenzie Crook denies his latest film about deaths on the London Underground is insensitive. |
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Yahoo News |
6:54am PDT |
Bush to name SBA's Preston as housing secretary
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday
plans to nominate Steve Preston to become the head of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has been
trying to grapple with the imploding housing market. |
