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7:35pm PDT |
Bailiffs kill man firing gun in courthouse |
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Cnn.com |
7:29pm PDT |
Incest suspect upset at media 'monster' image |
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7:25pm PDT |
Olympic flame reaches top of Mount Everest |
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Summary: The Olympic flame has reached the top of the world, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air. By successfully carrying the flame to Earth's highest point, China completed one of the promises it mad |
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BBC News |
7:17pm PDT |
Paediatrician to face GMC again |
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Summary: The General Medical Council will begin a new investigation into the work of controversial paediatrician David Southall. |
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7:02pm PDT |
Adults with autism to be audited |
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Summary: For the first time the government is to calculate the number of adults with autism in England. |
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6:55pm PDT |
Olympic flame reaches top of Mount Everest: state television
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Summary: AFP - Chinese climbers carrying the Olympic flame reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, state television showed, in an historic moment for China exactly three months ahead of the Beijing Games. |
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BBC News |
6:51pm PDT |
Man dies in suspected gas blast |
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Summary: A man is killed and two others are injured after an explosion rips through three homes in north-west London. |
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6:35pm PDT |
Clinton gives herself a loan and vows to fight on
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Barack Obama took a commanding lead
in the Democratic presidential race on Wednesday, but Hillary
Clinton vowed to fight on after loaning her campaign $6.4
million. |
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BBC News |
6:28pm PDT |
Olympic torch team climbs to top of Everest |
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Summary: Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame reach the summit of Mount Everest, shown live on Chinese television. |
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6:19pm PDT |
Handling of junior medics 'inept' |
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Summary: The handling of the junior doctors recruitment chaos last year by the government was inept, MPs say. |
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6:14pm PDT |
Clinton vows to fight on |
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Summary: After a big loss in North Carolina and a narrow win in Indiana, Sen. Hillary Clinton vowed to stay in the race until her party has a nominee. The race's focus now turns to the superdelegates, who outnumber the pledged delegates at stake in the six contest |
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Cnn.com |
6:14pm PDT |
Vowing to 'work as hard as I can,' Clinton fights on |
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Summary: After a big loss in North Carolina and a narrow win in Indiana, Sen. Hillary Clinton vowed to stay in the race until her party has a nominee. The race's focus now turns to the superdelegates, who outnumber the pledged delegates at stake in the six contest |
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Yahoo News |
6:09pm PDT |
Star Jones lashes out at Barbara Walters about memoir
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nearly two years after Star Jones left "The View" on rocky terms, the 46-year-old TV personality has criticized former boss Barbara Walters for writing about her. |
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Cnn.com |
6:05pm PDT |
Olympic torch nears top of Mount Everest |
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Summary: The Olympic flame is expected to reach the top of the world Wednesday night, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air of the earth's highest point.
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Yahoo News |
5:33pm PDT |
U.S. and NATO battle on uneven Afghan patchwork
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Last week U.S.
Captain Roger Hill led a patrol into the Jaldez valley, just
southwest of Kabul, and was immediately ambushed from three
sides by 50 Taliban fighters armed with rocket-propelled
grenades. |
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5:08pm PDT |
Envoy: Cyclone toll may top 100K |
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Summary: The situation in cyclone-devastated Myanmar is becoming "more and more horrendous" and the death toll in the nation's delta region alone could top 100,000, said Shari Villarosa, the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar.
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5:07pm PDT |
Obama picks up superdelegates; undecideds moving his way
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's march toward the Democratic presidential nomination picked up support from four more superdelegates Wednesday, pushing him ever closer to victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton — even as their primary marathon staggered on. |
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5:05pm PDT |
City Salute |
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Summary: Thousands attend tribute to injured forces personnel |
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4:59pm PDT |
DMX arrested for speeding, reckless driving in Ariz.
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Summary: AP - DMX was arrested after speed-enforcement cameras captured him in his bright yellow 1966 Chevrolet going 114 mph on a suburban Phoenix freeway. |
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BBC News |
4:36pm PDT |
'Better' prison planning needed |
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Summary: Ministers are urged to produce "clear plans" for coping with Scotland's growing prison population. |
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4:27pm PDT |
Prison toilets are 'unacceptable' |
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Summary: A sex offenders' prison is branded "unacceptable" after inmates were made to use buckets instead of a toilet. |
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4:11pm PDT |
UK interest rate 'set to be held' |
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Summary: UK interest rates are set to be held at 5%, most analysts predict, despite a flurry of downbeat economic data. |
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4:04pm PDT |
US pressing to deliver aid to Myanmar
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Summary: AP - The Pentagon readied people and equipment for an aid mission to cyclone-stricken Myanmar, but the top U.S. diplomat in the Asian nation said its military junta was "paranoid" about accepting American help. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Olympic torch team nears summit of Everest |
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Summary: Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame are approaching the summit of Everest, Chinese media report. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
China torch team to scale Everest |
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Summary: Chinese climbers are to begin their ascent of Mount Everest with the Olympic flame, due to be broadcast on live TV. |
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Cnn.com |
3:59pm PDT |
Brazilian man acquitted in U.S. nun's death |
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Summary: A Brazilian rancher convicted of orchestrating the 2005 killing of an American nun has been acquitted after a witness contradicted his own earlier testimony and said there had not been an order to carry out the assassination.
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Yahoo News |
3:57pm PDT |
Chantix recommended to quit smoking despite safety concerns
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The federal government's new advice to doctors for helping smokers quit recommends the drug Chantix, which has recently been linked with depression and suicidal behavior. The new guidelines mention the psychiatric risks but also say the popular Pfize |
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Cnn.com |
3:55pm PDT |
Video shows police beating restrained suspects |
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Summary: An internal investigation is under way into the videotaped beatings of three men by several Philadelphia police officers, according to Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.
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Yahoo News |
3:52pm PDT |
Myanmar under pressure, death toll may rise sharply
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Myanmar's military government came under
pressure on Wednesday to open its borders to more international
help after a devastating cyclone that a U.S. diplomat said may
have killed more than 100,000 people. |
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Yahoo News |
3:52pm PDT |
Feds penetrated drug culture easily at San Diego State
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Undercover agents who posed as college students to bust more than 100 suspected drug dealers at San Diego State University never had to crack a book to gain acceptance on campus. All it took was cash. |
