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Cnn.com |
8:38am PDT |
Glenn Beck: Why Harvard should be free |
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Summary: There is an industry in this country that is making billions in profit while average Americans are struggling to fill up their gas tanks.
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Cnn.com |
8:37am PDT |
Madonna faces adoption decision delay |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:28am PDT |
Warnings of problems hitting Sats |
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Summary: Schools and markers highlight problems around the administration of this year's tests. |
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Yahoo News |
8:18am PDT |
Bush stirs up U.S. campaign with "appeasement" remark
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
stirred up the campaign to replace him by suggesting on
Thursday that Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's pledge to
talk to Iran's leader amounted to "the false comfort of
appeasement." |
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BBC News |
8:17am PDT |
Aid for Burma 'must be monitored' |
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Summary: Countries sending aid to Burma must monitor it closely to stop the junta seizing it, a rights group says. |
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BBC News |
7:59am PDT |
Abbas pledge on 'catastrophe' day |
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Summary: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vows to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory. |
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Cnn.com |
7:57am PDT |
Gas prices to nip holiday trips |
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Summary: With soaring gas prices amid a slumping economy, Americans are planning on driving less this Memorial Day weekend than they did last year, according to a AAA study released Thursday.
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BBC News |
7:54am PDT |
Body found in make-up artist hunt |
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Summary: Detectives investigating the disappearance of a make-up artist probe the discovery of a body in woodland. |
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Yahoo News |
7:53am PDT |
Arab mediators broker Lebanon deal: sources
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Arab League mediators brokered a deal on
Thursday to end Lebanon's worst internal fighting since the
civil war, political sources said, after the U.S.-supported
government backed down in its conflict with Hezbollah. |
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Yahoo News |
7:43am PDT |
Myanmar cyclone death toll soars above 43,000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's junta warned Thursday that legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard international aid as the cyclone's death toll soared above 43,000. |
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BBC News |
7:35am PDT |
Bleak reminder |
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Summary: Today's parallels to USSR's defeat in Afghanistan |
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Cnn.com |
7:24am PDT |
Mistakes women make at doc's office |
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Summary: For 10 years, Barbara's gut told her she needed to get a new doctor for her daughter, and for 10 years, she didn't listen, even as her daughter got sicker and sicker.
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Yahoo News |
7:24am PDT |
Reuters urges Israel answer on journalist killed
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A month after journalist Fadel Shana was
killed by an Israeli tank crew in the Gaza Strip, Reuters
renewed its demand on Thursday for a prompt explanation from
the Israeli army of why it fired on its cameraman. |
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Cnn.com |
7:21am PDT |
Americans to travel less this holiday |
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Summary: With soaring gas prices amid a slumping economy, Americans are planning on driving less this Memorial Day weekend than they did last year, according to a AAA study released Thursday.
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Cnn.com |
7:18am PDT |
McCain envisions his presidency |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain thinks the Iraq War will be won but the threat from the Taliban in Afghanistan won't yet be eliminated, even though Osama bin Laden will be captured or killed, by 2013.
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Yahoo News |
7:13am PDT |
T-Pain has 5 nominations for BET Awards
(AP)
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Summary: AP - T-Pain's status as urban music's most frequent collaborator helped him nab a leading five BET Award nominations. |
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BBC News |
7:09am PDT |
Investor launches Yahoo challenge |
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Summary: A billionaire investor announces he will fight to oust the present board of directors at Yahoo. |
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Cnn.com |
7:08am PDT |
Myanmar denies misusing cyclone aid |
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Summary: At least 68,000 and as many as 128,000 people have died in Myanmar from Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the coastal nation earlier this month, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday.
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BBC News |
7:07am PDT |
Hezbollah 'to restore normality' |
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Summary: Hezbollah says it wants a return to the situation before recent violence across Lebanon. |
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Yahoo News |
7:04am PDT |
Suicide blast kills 12 Afghan civilians, 6 police
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A suicide bomber disguised
in a burqa blew himself up in a bazaar in western Afghanistan
on Thursday, killing six police and 12 civilians, officials
said. |
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Cnn.com |
7:03am PDT |
Woman eats with spouse's killer, befriends wife |
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Summary: Her husband and five children were hacked and clubbed to death. But now Iphigenia Mukantabana has lunch with the killer and works with his wife in a rare story of reconciliation, reports Christiane Amanpour.
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Cnn.com |
7:03am PDT |
Woman opens heart to man who killed family |
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Summary: Her husband and five children were hacked and clubbed to death. But now Iphigenia Mukantabana has lunch with the killer and works with his wife in a rare story of reconciliation, reports Christiane Amanpour.
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Cnn.com |
7:02am PDT |
Reports: Quake deaths could hit 50,000 |
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Summary: Chinese authorities say nearly 400 dams were damaged by Monday's massive earthquake, according to media reports, as efforts to relieve the pressure at a dam near one quake-hit city continue.
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Yahoo News |
6:55am PDT |
CBS in $1.8B deal for online news, info site CNet
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in its latest bid to expand its reach on the Internet, the companies announced Thursday. |
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Cnn.com |
6:54am PDT |
Clinton win leads to Obama boost |
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Summary: Hillary Clinton's decisive win in West Virginia caused John Edwards to throw his support to Barack Obama, the Illinois senator's aides said.
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Cnn.com |
6:46am PDT |
Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube |
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Summary: The video is hard to turn away from. A sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped.
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Yahoo News |
6:44am PDT |
More rain, thunderstorms hitting soggy Louisiana
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A line of drenching thunderstorms moved across the state from west to east Thursday after record rainfall caused flooding in water-logged parts of Louisiana. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39am PDT |
Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in an all-democratic neighborhood free of today's oppression, restrictions |
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Yahoo News |
6:38am PDT |
Obama says Bush falsely accuses him of appeasement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a "false political attack" with a comment about appeasing dictators. |
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BBC News |
6:36am PDT |
Italian police swoop on migrants |
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Summary: Italian police arrest hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in raids across the country. |
