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Yahoo News |
4:51pm PDT |
Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives. |
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Yahoo News |
4:38pm PDT |
Obama open to Clinton as running mate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday
did not rule out selecting rival Hillary Clinton as his vice
presidential running mate if he ultimately defeats her in a
race in which he has an almost insurmountable lead. |
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BBC News |
4:33pm PDT |
Global manhunt nets abuse suspect |
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Summary: A man suspected of sexually abusing boys in South-East Asia is arrested in the US after a rare Interpol appeal. |
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BBC News |
4:17pm PDT |
Catch-up reading scheme 'success' |
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Summary: A government-backed reading scheme shows lasting results for struggling readers, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:17pm PDT |
Reading scheme boost for children |
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Summary: A government-backed reading scheme shows lasting results for struggling readers, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:17pm PDT |
Scheme helps bad readers catch up |
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Summary: A government-backed reading scheme shows lasting results for struggling readers. |
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Yahoo News |
4:14pm PDT |
Israeli PM denies taking illicit donations from American
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen, but said Thursday night that he will step down if he is indicted. |
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BBC News |
4:13pm PDT |
Museum is top visitor attraction |
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Summary: New figures show Scotland's most visited attraction is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. |
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BBC News |
4:13pm PDT |
Museum Scotland's top attraction |
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Summary: New figures show Scotland's most visited attraction is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. |
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BBC News |
4:12pm PDT |
Centrica wind farm cost warning |
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Summary: Centrica warns that the prospect of making money from wind farms is looking "marginal" due to high costs. |
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Yahoo News |
4:10pm PDT |
U.S. says 5-10 percent of Guantanamo inmates fight again
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Between 5 and 10 percent of inmates
freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have
returned to terrorism since their release, U.S. Defense
Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:07pm PDT |
Israel's Olmert admits taking cash but won't quit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
admitted on Thursday that he took cash from an American
businessman but refused to resign over a police investigation
into hundreds of thousands of dollars of alleged bribes. |
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BBC News |
4:06pm PDT |
Soaring spirits |
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Summary: The first distillery in Wales for more than 100 years |
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BBC News |
4:04pm PDT |
Spiralling crisis |
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Summary: Civil war fears grip Lebanon as gun battles continue |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PDT |
Promises made over NHS overhaul |
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Summary: Ministers have sought to allay fears over the forthcoming overhaul of the NHS in England. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Early baby survival 'unchanged' |
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Summary: Babies born at 23 weeks or earlier are no more likely to survive than they were a decade ago, a study finds. |
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Yahoo News |
3:54pm PDT |
U.N. says 1.5 million people affected by Myanmar storm
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United Nations estimated 1.5
million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone
that swept through Myanmar, with the United States expressing
outrage on Thursday at delays in allowing in aid. |
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Yahoo News |
3:53pm PDT |
Al-Qaida in Iraq leader reported arrested
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold. |
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3:48pm PDT |
Judge orders CIA to turn over "torture" memo: ACLU
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. judge ordered the Central
Intelligence Agency on Thursday to submit to the court a 2002
memo said to specify harsh interrogation methods used on
suspected terrorists held abroad. |
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Cnn.com |
3:22pm PDT |
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader reportedly arrested |
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Yahoo News |
3:18pm PDT |
U.S. declines to help present nuclear deal to Iran
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - World powers will in the coming days
offer a revised package of incentives to Iran but Washington
has refused to send its own envoy to help present the deal,
diplomats and a U.S. official said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:12pm PDT |
Obama open to Clinton as possible running mate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday
did not rule out selecting rival Hillary Clinton as his vice
presidential running mate if he ultimately defeats her in a
race in which he has an almost insurmountable lead. |
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Yahoo News |
3:09pm PDT |
Arizona's Webb goes to 8-0 with 8-3 victory over Phillies
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brandon Webb became the first pitcher to win his first eight starts in three years, tossing his 13th career complete game to help the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-3 on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:06pm PDT |
Israeli PM Olmert suspected of receiving funds
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, responding to fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen, on Thursday said he will step down if he is indicted. |
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Yahoo News |
3:05pm PDT |
1st big foreign aid flights finally let in by Myanmar junta
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale. |
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Cnn.com |
3:04pm PDT |
House OKs mortgage bill despite veto threat |
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Summary: A bill that would allow the government to guarantee new mortgages for home owners facing foreclosure passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday.
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Yahoo News |
3:04pm PDT |
Obama gets big welcome, fresh support on Capitol tour
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama got a front-runner's welcome back at the Capitol Thursday, pressing congressional "superdelegates" to support him in a visit that had the look and feel of a campaign victory lap. |
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Yahoo News |
3:01pm PDT |
Gorilla celebrates her 55th birthday with frozen cake
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An animal considered to be the world's oldest living gorilla in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday today at the Dallas Zoo, with a frozen fruit cake. |
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Cnn.com |
2:49pm PDT |
Iraqi official: Al Qaeda in Iraq leader arrested |
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Cnn.com |
2:45pm PDT |
Criminal inquiry into mine collapse sought |
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Summary: A criminal investigation should be opened into whether the operators of Utah's Crandall Canyon mine purposely misled safety officials about mine conditions before the 2007 deadly collapse, the chairman of a House investigation committee said Thursday.
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