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Yahoo News |
8:19am PDT |
Bush pushes Congress to move on farm legislation, housing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Tuesday that Congress is blocking his proposals to deal with high gas prices and dragging its feet on other issues to address the nation's sagging economy. He said he was open to any idea in terms of energy, including a proposal b |
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BBC News |
8:16am PDT |
Blogger fined for 'menacing' rant |
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Summary: A man who "let off steam" on his blog about police is convicted of posting a menacing message. |
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Yahoo News |
8:16am PDT |
Russia to examine Iran's nuclear ideas: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Russia was quoted as saying on Tuesday
it was ready to examine Iranian proposals to end a deadlock
over Tehran's disputed nuclear program. |
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Yahoo News |
8:07am PDT |
Tests show Austrian fathered daughter's children
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - DNA tests showed that
Austrian Josef Fritzl, who raped his daughter and kept her
prisoner in a windowless cellar for 24 years, was the father of
her six surviving children, police said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:07am PDT |
New Orleans Hornets' Byron Scott is voted NBA coach of year
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Byron Scott has been voted NBA coach of the year after leading the New Orleans Hornets to their first playoff appearance in four years. |
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Cnn.com |
7:50am PDT |
Bush scolds Congress on economy |
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Summary: President Bush will address Americans' "understandable anxiety" about their finances Tuesday, the White House said.
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BBC News |
7:50am PDT |
Fine after 'flower power' crime |
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Summary: A man who waved a plastic flower in a police officer's face and shouted sectarian abuse is fined £500. |
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BBC News |
7:50am PDT |
Tariq Aziz goes on trial in Iraq |
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Summary: Former Iraqi Deputy PM Tariq Aziz is due to go on trial over the deaths of a group of Baghdad merchants. |
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Yahoo News |
7:49am PDT |
Gasoline price high due inadequate oil output: Bush
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Tuesday that U.S. gasoline prices are at record levels because
global oil production is not keeping pace with demand. |
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Yahoo News |
7:48am PDT |
Former Iraqi deputy PM Tareq Aziz trial starts
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
Tareq Aziz, the public face of Saddam Hussein's regime, went on
trial on Tuesday over the execution of dozens of merchants for
price gouging in 1992. |
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BBC News |
7:46am PDT |
US house prices show steep fall |
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Summary: US house prices dropped sharply at the beginning of 2008, a survey suggests. |
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Cnn.com |
7:45am PDT |
140 homes hit by Virginia tornadoes |
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Summary: Virginians face a massive cleanup project today after at least three tornadoes damaged dozens of homes and injured more than 200 people. "We have had some injuries. Most of them are minor, so in many ways we are blessed," Suffolk Mayor Linda Johnson said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:25am PDT |
DNA tests confirm paternity of Austrian incest case dad
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - DNA test results confirmed Tuesday that the Austrian man who locked up his daughter for 24 years in a basement was indeed the father of her surviving six children, investigators said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:22am PDT |
Consumer confidence drops in April on inflation, job worries
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Soaring gas prices and weaker job prospects made Americans gloomier about the economy in April, sending a widely watched measure of consumer sentiment even lower, a private research group said Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
7:18am PDT |
Blackmail suspect was 'entrapped' |
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Summary: A man accused of blackmailing a member of the Royal Family tells a court he was a victim of entrapment. |
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Yahoo News |
7:08am PDT |
More than 30 killed in street battles in Baghdad's Sadr City
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shiite militants ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's embattled Sadr City district on Tuesday and more than two dozen people were killed in the fighting, a U.S. military spokesman and Iraqi officials said. Six American soldiers were wounded. |
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BBC News |
7:07am PDT |
BA raises fuel surcharges again |
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Summary: British Airways says it is increasing fuel surcharges on long and short haul flights from 2 May. |
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Cnn.com |
7:07am PDT |
Iranian official calls Barbie 'destructive' |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:05am PDT |
Top billing? |
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Summary: Shakin' Stevens and Jay-Z to share Glastonbury stage |
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BBC News |
7:03am PDT |
DNA 'backs Austrian incest claim' |
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Summary: DNA evidence supports an Austrian's confession that he fathered his daughter's children, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
7:03am PDT |
Police: DNA tests show Austrian man fathered grandchildren
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Authorities say DNA tests confirm that the Austrian man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years is the biological father of her children. |
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Cnn.com |
7:00am PDT |
DNA confirms man fathered daughter's kids |
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Summary: DNA tests confirm that Josef Fritzl fathered six children with his daughter, whom he kept imprisoned in his basement for 24 years, police in Austria said today. A seventh child died shortly after birth. Hospital officials say two of the three children kep |
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Cnn.com |
7:00am PDT |
DNA: Sex captor fathered daughter's kids |
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Summary: Austria was on Tuesday still coming to terms with its second horrific case of abduction in two years, with a 73-year-old man having admitted to imprisoning his daughter for more than two decades and fathering seven of her children.
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Cnn.com |
6:57am PDT |
Rev. Wright more than Obama's ex-pastor |
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Summary: Jeremiah Wright has been a lot of things -- husband, father, author, composer, outspoken minister and spiritual confidant to Sen. Barack Obama.
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Cnn.com |
6:53am PDT |
Housing prices post record declines |
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Summary: Home prices posted another record decline.
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BBC News |
6:52am PDT |
More British troops off to Kosovo |
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Summary: Defence Secretary Des Browne announces 600 British troops will be sent to Kosovo, following a Nato request. |
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Cnn.com |
6:50am PDT |
Candidates split over gas-tax holiday |
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Summary: Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain are pushing for a gas-tax holiday, but Sen. Barack Obama says the plan is a quick fix that would do more harm than good.
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Yahoo News |
6:38am PDT |
Everest torch silence breeds frustration
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Sub-zero temperatures and
altitude sickness were bad enough, but a lack of information
about just when a special Olympic flame would start up Mount
Everest made journalists doubly miserable at Base Camp on
Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
6:32am PDT |
Casualties mount in Baghdad clash |
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Summary: Twenty-eight militants are killed and US soldiers are wounded in clashes in Sadr City, Baghdad, the US says. |
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BBC News |
6:26am PDT |
Court holds Austria 'sex captor' |
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Summary: An Austrian who admitted imprisoning his daughter and fathering her children is to appear before a magistrate. |
