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12:07pm PDT |
Storms kill 7 in Arkansas, damage homes around Kansas City
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Summary: AP - Severe storms that rolled across Arkansas early Friday killed at least seven people, including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed. The deaths came after earlier storms seriously damaged homes and businesses in the Kansas City, Mo |
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12:05pm PDT |
Clinton calls for gas tax vote, Obama calls it 'shell' game
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs. |
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11:55am PDT |
Labour suffers big UK election losses |
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Summary: Gordon Brown admits to "bad and disappointing" results, as Labour has its worst election showing in decades. |
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11:40am PDT |
Storms kill 5, injure 6 in northern Arkansas
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Summary: Reuters - Severe storms tore
through northern Arkansas on Friday, killing at least five
people and injuring six. |
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11:22am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition chief wins election, no overall majority
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition declared its leader as the rightful president Friday, rejecting the official result of a March 29 election which saw it fall just short of toppling Robert Mugabe in the first round. |
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11:21am PDT |
Arkansas storms kill 7 |
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11:00am PDT |
U.S. mulls Guantanamo closure as Bush term nears end
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Summary: Reuters - The Bush administration could
announce plans by the end of its term in January to close
Guantanamo prison and an upcoming Supreme Court ruling might be
the impetus for this, senior U.S. officials and experts say. |
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10:32am PDT |
Storms kill 6 in Arkansas, damage homes around Kansas City
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Summary: AP - Storms rolled across Arkansas early Friday, killing at least six people including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed. |
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10:31am PDT |
Police study old Fritzl sex case |
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Summary: Austrian investigators examine a police file on "house of horrors" father Josef Fritzl for a rape dating back to 1967. |
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10:26am PDT |
'Hee Haw' comedian dies at 66 |
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10:23am PDT |
6 die in Arkansas storms |
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10:20am PDT |
NBA suspends Darius Songaila for hitting LeBron James in face
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Summary: AP - Washington Wizards reserve forward Darius Songaila was suspended by the NBA for Game 6 of a playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night for hitting LeBron James in the face with his hand. |
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10:12am PDT |
Clive James asks |
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Summary: 'Does Amy Winehouse have a duty to her talent?' |
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9:57am PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition party proposes sharing power
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Summary: AP - Zimbabwe's opposition party is proposing sharing power with President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, but not with Mugabe. |
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9:55am PDT |
Bush: Economy not as robust as it needs to be
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Friday that the government's latest jobs figures showed that
the economy is not as robust as it needs to be. |
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Cnn.com |
9:34am PDT |
Cleared widow: Marine wasn't murdered |
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9:32am PDT |
Obama tries to ride past "rough couple of weeks"
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Summary: Reuters - Faced with doubts about his White
House bid after a "rough couple of weeks," Barack Obama is
trying a folksier, more personal style as he pushes his
economic plans at veterans' halls, factories and country fairs. |
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9:29am PDT |
Storms kill 3 in Arkansas, damage homes around Kansas City
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Summary: AP - Storms rolled across Arkansas, killing at least three people including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed, officials said Friday. |
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9:20am PDT |
Morgan blames UK woes for losses |
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Summary: Rhodri Morgan says economic problems it could not control were responsible for Labour's worst election in 40 years. |
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9:08am PDT |
Dutch man faces cocaine charges |
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Summary: A 24-year-old man is charged in connection with a seizure of cocaine at Belfast International Airport. |
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9:07am PDT |
Militants vow revenge after U.S. airstrike |
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9:05am PDT |
White House hopefuls leap on weak job picture
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Summary: Reuters - White House hopefuls
seized on a weak U.S. jobs picture on Friday to promote their
cures for the ailing economy amid bickering over a proposal to
suspend the federal gasoline tax. |
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8:53am PDT |
Texan tries to cash $360bn cheque |
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Summary: A man in Texas is arrested for trying to cash a cheque for $360bn to start a record business. |
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8:52am PDT |
Redknapp warrant ruling delayed |
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Summary: Judges will decide at a later date whether a police raid at the home of football boss Harry Redknapp was unlawful. |
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8:50am PDT |
Bush details $70 billion war funding request for 2009
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Summary: AP - President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion request Friday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the next president breathing room to make his or her own war policy. |
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8:50am PDT |
Pair jailed for blackmailing royal |
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Summary: Two men are jailed for five years for blackmailing a Royal Family member over tapes featuring gay sex claims. |
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8:48am PDT |
Title is within reach - Ferguson |
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Summary: Sir Alex Ferguson says Manchester United are on track to win the Premier League title despite losing to Chelsea last week. |
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8:48am PDT |
Did Mariah Carey get married? |
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8:46am PDT |
Tsvangirai wins Zimbabwe election, no overall majority
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was finally declared the winner Friday of the March 29 presidential election but fell just short of toppling incumbent Robert Mugabe in the first round. |
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Cnn.com |
8:44am PDT |
Dr. Phil: Polygamist values put kids at risk |
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Summary: Dr. Phil McGraw joined "Larry King Live" on Thursday where he talked about some of the stories in the news. He touched on topics ranging from the removal of children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sect to the Rev. Jere |
