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Cnn.com |
6:38pm PDT |
Ex-track star reportedly faces heroin charge |
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Yahoo News |
6:33pm PDT |
Oprah's couch is safe: Cruise more subdued during taping
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Summary: AP - Tom Cruise didn't jump on Oprah Winfrey's couch this time. |
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Yahoo News |
6:29pm PDT |
Corruption trial hears of plot to fire prosecutor
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A witness at the trial of political
fundraiser Antoin Rezko testified on Thursday that then-White
House aide Karl Rove was asked to replace the federal
prosecutor in Chicago to abort a probe of Illinois corruption. |
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BBC News |
6:25pm PDT |
Tories make strong council gains |
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Summary: The Conservatives make strong gains as the results of local elections in England and Wales are announced. |
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BBC News |
6:19pm PDT |
US rebuke over Palestinian funds |
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Summary: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice implies Arab states could do more to help with aid for the Palestinians. |
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Cnn.com |
6:17pm PDT |
Bush's popularity lowest in history |
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Summary: A new poll suggests President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job. The poll also indicates that |
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Cnn.com |
6:17pm PDT |
Bush's popularity lowest in U.S. history, poll shows |
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Summary: A new poll suggests President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job. The poll also indicates that |
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Cnn.com |
6:17pm PDT |
Poll: Bush disapproval rating highest on record |
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Summary: A new poll suggests President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job. The poll also indicates that |
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Cnn.com |
5:58pm PDT |
Distraught mom finds 'D.C. Madam' hanged |
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Summary: Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," was found dead in Florida today, according to police. Palfrey hanged herself in a storage shed and was found by her mother, police said. Palfrey was convicted last month on charges related to a high-end pr |
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Cnn.com |
5:58pm PDT |
Police: Mom found 'D.C. Madam,' suicide note |
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Summary: Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," was found dead in Florida today, according to police. Palfrey hanged herself in a storage shed and was found by her mother, police said. Palfrey was convicted last month on charges related to a high-end pr |
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5:57pm PDT |
Delusions 'haunt' sick children |
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Summary: One in three children admitted to intensive care will have powerful hallucinations, say British researchers. |
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5:40pm PDT |
Labour worries on council losses |
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Summary: Labour figures suggest that the party could have lost control of two south Wales heartland councils. |
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5:38pm PDT |
Tories make early council gains |
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Summary: Results are coming in for the local elections in England and Wales, with the Conservatives making early gains. |
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Cnn.com |
5:30pm PDT |
Air Force grounds T-38Cs after deadly crash |
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Cnn.com |
5:30pm PDT |
Air Force grounds T-38C jets after deadly crash |
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BBC News |
5:10pm PDT |
Turkish planes 'bomb Iraqi Kurds' |
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Summary: The Turkish air force launches attacks against separatist Kurds in northern Iraq, a Turkish news agency says. |
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BBC News |
5:07pm PDT |
Plan for greener dairy industry |
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Summary: The dairy industry and environment ministers are to give details on how they can reduce the effects milk production has on climate change. |
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Cnn.com |
5:05pm PDT |
Bush wants $770 million more food aid |
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Summary: President Bush urged Congress on Thursday to approve $770 million in new global food aid to be made available beginning in October.
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Cnn.com |
5:05pm PDT |
Al-Jazeera: Cameraman out of Gitmo |
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Summary: Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj has been released after nearly six years in the U.S. Navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Pentagon official aware of the details of the release told CNN on Thursday.
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4:55pm PDT |
'Key lessons' in charity collapse |
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Summary: Charity regulators say lessons can be learned after a major childcare provider went into liquidation last year. |
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BBC News |
4:53pm PDT |
London poll results on knife edge |
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Summary: Londoners wait to find out who will be their next mayor after polls closed on a fiercely fought campaign. |
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Yahoo News |
4:51pm PDT |
Former Dodgers GM Buzzie Bavasi dies in San Diego at 93
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Buzzie Bavasi, who built Dodgers teams that won four World Series titles in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, died Thursday at his home in La Jolla, outside San Diego. He was 93. His death was announced by the Seattle Mariners, whose general manager is Bill |
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Yahoo News |
4:51pm PDT |
Immigrants march in U.S. but rallies lose steam
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Thousands of immigrants marched
through cities across the United States on Thursday, but the
smaller crowds suggested their cause had lost momentum in this
election year. |
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Yahoo News |
4:47pm PDT |
Man arrested in Texas for trying to cash $360 billion check
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Charles Ray Fuller must have been planning one big record company. The 21-year-old North Texas man was arrested last week for trying to cash a $360 billion check, saying he wanted to start a record business. Tellers at the Fort Worth bank were immedi |
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BBC News |
4:41pm PDT |
Top job |
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Summary: Who is ready for Europe's first presidential race? |
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Cnn.com |
4:39pm PDT |
Video shows horror of London transit bombs |
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Summary: Videos of the chaos and horrified reactions after the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings were shown to jurors Thursday in the trial of three men charged with conspiracy in the case.
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Yahoo News |
4:30pm PDT |
Thousands rally in May Day effort for immigration reform
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thousands of chanting, flag-waving immigrants and activists rallied in cities across the country Thursday, attempting to reinvigorate calls for immigration reform in a presidential election year in which the economy has taken center stage. |
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BBC News |
4:29pm PDT |
Coal scars |
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Summary: Why the end of mining still hampers Welsh economy |
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Yahoo News |
4:24pm PDT |
Obama-Wright rift reveals divided loyalties in black church
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama's break with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is putting black pastors and their congregations in a difficult position, their loyalties divided between a politician who could be the first black president and a celebrated preacher who many b |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
First local poll results declared |
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Summary: The first results are in for the local elections in England and Wales, with counting set to continue all night. |
