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BBC News |
1:22pm PDT |
Refinery strike talks to continue |
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Summary: Talks aimed at resolving a dispute which could shut down Grangemouth oil refinery will resume on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
1:22pm PDT |
Refinery dispute talks deadlocked |
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Summary: Talks aimed at resolving a dispute which could shut down Grangemouth oil refinery will resume on Wednesday morning. |
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Yahoo News |
1:13pm PDT |
Jake Long signs $57M deal with Dolphins, will be No. 1 pick
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Summary: AP - Michigan tackle Jake Long signed a five-year contract with $30 million guaranteed Tuesday with the Miami Dolphins, who plan to select him with the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. |
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Yahoo News |
1:06pm PDT |
Canada and Mexico brush aside U.S. free trade threats
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Summary: Reuters - The leaders of Canada and Mexico on
Tuesday brushed aside threats by the U.S. Democratic
presidential candidates to try to renegotiate NAFTA and adopt a
more protectionist approach to trade. |
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BBC News |
1:02pm PDT |
Democrats fight over key US state |
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Summary: Democrats in Pennsylvania vote in a critical battle between White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. |
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Yahoo News |
12:51pm PDT |
Senators debate future of Web
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Summary: AP - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent Internet service providers from discriminating against Web surfers and that new legislation is unnecessary. |
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Cnn.com |
12:41pm PDT |
Teller pregnant with twins shot in holdup |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
12:31pm PDT |
Darling 'promises to act on tax' |
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Summary: The chancellor tells MPs he will act "within this financial year" to allay concerns about tax changes, the BBC learns. |
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Cnn.com |
12:22pm PDT |
What to watch for in Pennsylvania results |
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Summary: The war for Pennsylvania's 158 Democratic delegates is more like a series of battles. Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes may rest on the state's more than 4 million Democratic voters as she faces off with Sen. Barack Obama. CNN's latest "poll of po |
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Cnn.com |
12:14pm PDT |
Bush denies U.S. in recession |
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Summary: President Bush denied Tuesday that the United States' economy is in recession, calling it instead a "slowdown."
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12:10pm PDT |
Brown's biofuels caution welcomed |
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Summary: Gordon Brown's pledge to examine the impact of biofuels on world food prices is welcomed by campaigners. |
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Yahoo News |
12:01pm PDT |
Chelsea Clinton in NC, says mother more prepared than father
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Summary: AP - Chelsea Clinton says her mother would be a better president than her father because she is more prepared and more progressive. |
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Cnn.com |
11:50am PDT |
NFL No. 1 overall draft pick named |
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BBC News |
11:40am PDT |
Goldsmith 'can't back' terror law |
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Summary: The former attorney general says "the case has not been made" for a longer limit on holding terror suspects. |
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Cnn.com |
11:27am PDT |
Harry Potter case brings law into Internet Age |
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Summary: It's a battle worthy of Harry Potter himself. His creator, author J.K. Rowling, is locked in a courtroom fight -- not with an evil wizard -- but one of her biggest fans, a former librarian from Michigan named Steven Vander Ark. The outcome is likely to ch |
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11:18am PDT |
Oil jumps to near $120 a barrel |
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Summary: Oil prices hit new highs in London and New York amid worries about supply disruptions in Nigeria. |
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Cnn.com |
11:13am PDT |
Defense secretary chokes up among cadets |
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Summary: Defense Secretary Robert Gates' voice cracked with emotion Monday night as he wrapped up a lesson to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Yahoo News |
11:13am PDT |
Jake Long signs with Dolphins, will be top pick in NFL draft
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michigan tackle Jake Long has signed a multiyear contract with the Miami Dolphins, who plan to select him with the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:12am PDT |
London summit tackles 'tsunami' of rising food prices
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The world faces a "silent tsunami" of soaring food prices and more must be done to help secure future supply, the UN food agency said Tuesday as experts gathered in London for a special summit on the problem. |
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Cnn.com |
11:11am PDT |
Clinton: 'I have to win' |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton today acknowledged her White House bid is on the line in Pennsylvania, as primary voters headed to the polls. "I have to win," Clinton told reporters. "And I'm going to do everything I can to win." A CNN "poll of polls" suggests Clint |
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Yahoo News |
11:10am PDT |
American arrested as nuclear spy for Israel
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. authorities arrested an
American engineer on Tuesday on suspicion of giving secrets on
nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to
Israel during the 1980s, the Justice Department said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08am PDT |
Jake Long signs as top draft pick with Dolphins
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michigan tackle Jake Long is the first pick in the NFL draft by the Miami Dolphins, who signed him to a multiyear contract four days before the start of the draft. |
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Yahoo News |
11:00am PDT |
Richie Sambora charged with DUI in Southern California
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors in Orange County, Calif., have charged Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. |
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Yahoo News |
10:59am PDT |
Clinton, Obama battle for 158 delegates as Pennsylvania votes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama collided Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, the last of the big-state contests in a Democratic presidential campaign growing more negative the longer it goes. |
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BBC News |
10:48am PDT |
Galloway 'dazed' by ball attack |
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Summary: MP George Galloway is left "dazed" and bruised after being hit with a rubber stress ball while campaiging. |
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Cnn.com |
10:42am PDT |
Gas from corn ups food prices, expert says |
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Summary: Those battling global warming by promoting biofuels may unintentionally be adding to skyrocketing world food prices, creating what one expert calls "a silent tsunami" in developing nations.
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Yahoo News |
10:39am PDT |
FCC chief says no need for new regulation of the Internet
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday there's no need for new regulation of the Internet, saying his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent discrimination by Internet service providers. |
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BBC News |
10:39am PDT |
Strangled woman pregnant with son |
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Summary: A Chinese woman killed at her east Belfast home in June 1998, was 18 weeks pregnant with a son, a court hears. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38am PDT |
Bush: Now is not the time to renegotiate or cancel NAFTA
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush, replying to criticism from Democratic presidential candidates, said Tuesday that "now is not the time to renegotiate ... or walk away from" the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also denied the U.S. was in a recession, calling i |
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BBC News |
10:36am PDT |
Owner Hicks braves Anfield crowd |
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Summary: Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is at the club's Champions League semi-final, first-leg against Chelsea, despite fears of a hostile reception. |
