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7:21pm PDT |
FDA takes closer look at Lasik complaints |
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7:21pm PDT |
U.N. chief to announce malaria plan |
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7:07pm PDT |
Raptors roll past Magic 108-94, cut Orlando's lead to 2-1
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Summary: AP - T.J. Ford scored 21 points, Jose Calderon had 18 points and 13 assists, and the Toronto Raptors beat the Orlando Magic 108-94 on Thursday night in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series. |
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7:02pm PDT |
U.S. Marine charged with rape in Japan |
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6:37pm PDT |
U.S. Marine in Japan charged with rape |
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6:33pm PDT |
Co-pilot's final words revealed |
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Summary: The last words of a co-pilot of the plane which crashed into a Kent house, killing five, are published in a report. |
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6:23pm PDT |
Ethics committee scolds GOP senator |
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Summary: The Senate Ethics Committee issued a letter of admonition Thursday to New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici for his role in contacting the U.S. attorney in his state about a pending federal grand jury investigation into public corruption.
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6:22pm PDT |
Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years in prison for tax convictions
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Summary: AP - Wesley Snipes called on famous friends to vouch for him, highlighted his clean criminal record and even wrote the government $5 million in checks — all in an effort to convince a judge that his conviction on tax charges should cost him nothing more t |
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6:14pm PDT |
Prosecutors: Ind. student planned Columbine-like attack
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Summary: AP - A 16-year-old boy is accused of plotting an attack on his high school, prosecutors said Thursday, alleging that he discussed plans by e-mail with another person to carry out simultaneous "Columbine-like mass murders" in two states on Sept. 11, 2008. |
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6:13pm PDT |
More teenage mothers emerge in Texas polygamy probe
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Summary: Reuters - Texas authorities said on
Thursday they identified 25 more mothers below age 18 among
those removed from a polygamist compound, raising to about 460
the number of minors at the heart of a huge abuse probe. |
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6:01pm PDT |
Third of girls 'have self-harmed' |
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Summary: A third of UK girls and a fifth of boys aged 11 to 19 have tried to harm themselves, a survey suggests. |
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6:00pm PDT |
Fighting back |
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Summary: France's president appears on air to assert his authority |
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6:00pm PDT |
Fighting Back |
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Summary: France's president appears on air to assert his authority |
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5:53pm PDT |
Port immigration offences surge |
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Summary: More than 1,000 people have been identified as illegal immigrants at ports in southern Scotland. |
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5:53pm PDT |
Study: Illegal worker crackdown would cost employers $1B
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Summary: AP - The government's plan to crack down on illegal workers could cost employers more than $1 billion a year and legal workers billions in lost wages, a study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says. |
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5:48pm PDT |
Sarkozy admits he made mistakes |
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Summary: France's President Nicolas Sarkozy says he made some mistakes in his first year in office, in a live TV interview. |
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5:46pm PDT |
Cosby, judge who expelled whites team up |
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5:26pm PDT |
Police review ethnic recruitment |
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Summary: A police force reviews job applications from ethnic minority candidates to see if they were unfairly rejected. |
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5:25pm PDT |
Senators ask Pentagon to reopen Air Force contract probe
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Summary: AP - Two senators have asked the Pentagon to reopen the investigation into Air Force officials' efforts to influence the award of a $50 million contract, urging investigators to focus on the actions of key service leaders, The Associated Press has learned |
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5:14pm PDT |
U.S.: Syria reactor likely had non-peaceful aims |
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Summary: A covert nuclear reactor destroyed last year in Syria would have been capable of producing plutonium and likely was "not intended for peaceful purposes," the White House said today. A senior U.S. official said the reactor had been weeks or months away fro |
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5:08pm PDT |
Actor Wesley Snipes gets 3 years in tax case |
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Summary: Actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced today to three years in prison for three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns -- the maximum requested by prosecutors. Snipes' attorneys said they will appeal. The actor, who showed little reaction, gave a lo |
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5:08pm PDT |
Microsoft sees slide in profits |
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Summary: Microsoft sees third quarter profits decline, hit by lower demand, but the results beat forecasts. |
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5:00pm PDT |
McCain hits Obama on diplomacy over North Korea
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Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain challenged Democrat Barack Obama's approach to diplomacy
on Thursday, saying U.S. charges that North Korea gave nuclear
assistance to Syria showed the folly of unconditional talks
with foreign ad |
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4:57pm PDT |
Winehouse makes cash splash in young music millionaires list |
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Summary: Winehouse makes cash splash in young music millionaires list |
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4:46pm PDT |
Judge sentences Snipes to 3 years for tax convictions
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Summary: AP - Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax charges Thursday, a victory for prosecutors who sought to make an example of the action star by aggressively pursuing the maximum penalty. |
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4:45pm PDT |
Bush assures Abbas on statehood
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
assured Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday that
Palestinian statehood remained a high priority in his final 10
months in office despite faltering peace talks. |
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4:44pm PDT |
Custom wetsuit protects patchy penguin |
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4:37pm PDT |
U.S. says North Korea gave Syria nuclear assistance
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Summary: Reuters - The United States on Thursday
released photographs of what it said was a Syrian nuclear
reactor built with North Korean help, in an effort to pressure
Pyongyang to fully disclose its nuclear activities. |
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4:31pm PDT |
Bush administration opposes Democrats' housing rescue plan
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Summary: AP - A top housing official said Thursday that the Bush administration "strongly opposes" Democrats' housing rescue package, calling it a bailout that would expose taxpayers to excessive risk. |
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4:30pm PDT |
Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things
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Summary: AP - What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the |
