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Yahoo News |
2:03pm PDT |
Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket. |
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Cnn.com |
2:00pm PDT |
Rapper DMX faces animal cruelty, drug charges |
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Summary: Rapper DMX was arrested Friday on drug and animal cruelty charges after attempting to barricade himself inside his Arizona home, sheriff's deputies said.
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Cnn.com |
1:52pm PDT |
Quarantined train to roll soon, official says |
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Summary: A Canadian train quarantined after a passenger died Thursday will soon be on its way again, Ontario's top medical officer told reporters.
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Yahoo News |
1:47pm PDT |
Records show Sharpton owes overdue taxes, other penalties
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Big corporations give him money. Presidential candidates seek his endorsement. He has influential friends in Congress and the governor's mansion. The Rev. Al Sharpton has emerged over the past decade as perhaps the nation's most prominent civil right |
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1:41pm PDT |
Polar sailor has journey's end finally in his sights |
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Summary: A sailor who set off in 2005 to become the first to sail solo around the world via the polar regions is 1,000 miles from home. |
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Yahoo News |
1:39pm PDT |
Military adds armor to Iraq vehicles as roadside bombs surge
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The U.S. military is reinforcing the sides of its topline mine-resistant vehicles to shore up what could be weak points as troops see a spike in armor-piercing roadside bombings across Iraq, The Associated Press has learned. |
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1:32pm PDT |
U.S. senators urge Bush to visit Tibet during Games
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A group of senior U.S. senators
urged President George W. Bush on Friday to visit Tibet when he
travels to China in August to attend the Beijing Olympics. |
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Yahoo News |
1:29pm PDT |
Obama gathers support as he looks to November
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama turned
his focus to a general election showdown with John McCain on
Friday and said the Republican White House candidate would
continue the failed policies of President George W. Bush. |
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Yahoo News |
1:21pm PDT |
McCain and blogger trade barbs over his 2000 vote
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Did U.S. Republican presidential
candidate John McCain vote for President George W. Bush in
2000? |
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Yahoo News |
1:21pm PDT |
MLB suspends Mariners slugger Sexson for 6 games
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Seattle slugger Richie Sexson was suspended for six games and fined Friday by Major League Baseball after charging the mound and throwing his helmet at a Texas pitcher the previous night. |
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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
U.S. sees record world food crops easing crisis
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Good weather will help the world's
farmers reap record wheat and rice crops this year, the U.S.
government said on Friday, which should allay fears of
shortages and help bring prices down from current high levels. |
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Yahoo News |
1:10pm PDT |
Blackwater unlikely to face charges in Iraq shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges — all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar contract to protect U |
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Yahoo News |
1:05pm PDT |
Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the |
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Cnn.com |
1:01pm PDT |
Obama gains more superdelegates |
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Summary: The campaign for Sen. Barack Obama today announced the support of four new superdelegates -- including a previous backer of Sen. Hillary Clinton. The latest announcements narrow Clinton's lead in superdelegates to single digits. At the year's start, she l |
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Yahoo News |
1:00pm PDT |
Obama picks up 9 superdelegates, union endorsement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campa |
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Cnn.com |
12:55pm PDT |
Judge allegedly napped, made bailiff rub feet |
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12:50pm PDT |
Avalanche, coach Joel Quenneville go their separate ways
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Joel Quenneville is out as coach of the Avalanche after three seasons, a week after Colorado was swept out of the playoffs by the Detroit Red Wings. |
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Yahoo News |
12:43pm PDT |
Lebanon condemns "coup"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group
took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the
U.S.-backed governing coalition described as "an armed and
bloody coup." |
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Yahoo News |
12:29pm PDT |
Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity. |
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Yahoo News |
12:11pm PDT |
Foxy Brown pleads guilty to menacing Brooklyn neighbor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served. |
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Cnn.com |
12:11pm PDT |
Mistrust, misery mix in devastated Myanmar |
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Summary: CNN's Dan Rivers has left cyclone-ravaged Myanmar after sneaking into the country without the knowledge of the nation's secretive ruling junta. The government hunted the journalist even as it seized food aid and kept out relief agencies. "They're turning |
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Yahoo News |
12:11pm PDT |
One dead and 280 quarantined on Canadian train
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - One person died and about 280
were placed in quarantine aboard a cross-Canada train on Friday
after a mystery illness caused violent flu-like symptoms. |
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Yahoo News |
12:04pm PDT |
Man crashes at driveway, sees home catch fire, gets ticket
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Rock Island man whose car was hit as he tried to make a left turn into his driveway saw his home going up in flames as he was airlifted to the hospital. Tennessee Highway Patrol officer Monte Terry said Justin Hill, 42, was hit by an oncoming car w |
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BBC News |
11:58am PDT |
Get tough with Burma, says Clegg |
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Summary: Aid should be dropped into Burma whether the authorities there allow it or not, says Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg. |
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BBC News |
11:53am PDT |
Edwards: 'Obama likely nominee' |
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Summary: Former Democratic US presidential hopeful John Edwards says Barack Obama is now his party's likely nominee. |
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Yahoo News |
11:46am PDT |
Lebanon govt denounces Hezbollah "coup"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group
took control of the Muslim half of Beirut on Friday in what the
U.S.-backed governing coalition described as "an armed and
bloody coup." |
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BBC News |
11:41am PDT |
Burma warned over cyclone delays |
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Summary: The UN's humanitarian chief urges Burma to reconsider its attitude towards allowing aid teams into the country. |
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Yahoo News |
11:39am PDT |
NC officials: Fatal twister could have been worse
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Amber Parker watched on television as the storm near her home grew into a tornado threat. Then, when the roaring wind outside suddenly fell silent, she grabbed her two toddlers and rushed to get under the stairwell. |
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Cnn.com |
11:36am PDT |
Train quarantined after woman dies |
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Cnn.com |
11:35am PDT |
Data recovered from Columbia disaster |
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