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| FBI, ATF battle for control of cases |
9 May 08, 23:36 ET |
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| In the five years since the FBI and ATF were merged under the Justice Department to coordinate the fight against terrorism, the rival law-enforcement agencies have fought each other for control, according to sources and internal documents. |
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| U.S. envoy takes nuclear documents out of North Korea |
9 May 08, 23:34 ET |
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| Reuters - A U.S. nuclear envoy
returned from North Korea on Saturday, shuttling boxes of
documents detailing Pyongyang's production of arms-grade
plutonium across the Cold War border dividing the two Koreas. |
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| Mexico's president says "enough" to drug hitmen |
9 May 08, 23:20 ET |
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| Reuters - Mexican President Felipe Calderon
said on Friday the country was sick and tired of rampant drug
violence after five high-ranking policemen were killed in less
than a week. |
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| Brother of Jets safety fatally shot in Florida |
9 May 08, 23:17 ET |
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| AP - The older brother of New York Jets safety Abram Elam was fatally shot, the third sibling in the family to die by gunfire since 1987. |
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| Tiny Crawford plays supporting role for Jenna Bush's wedding |
9 May 08, 22:59 ET |
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| AP - So close and yet so far: Tiny Crawford is sort of like a bridesmaid at arm's length from Jenna Bush's wedding Saturday. |
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| Obama gathers support as he looks to November |
9 May 08, 22:49 ET |
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| Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama turned
his focus to a U.S. 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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| Jenna Bush's wedding is low-key affair |
9 May 08, 22:42 ET |
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| Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents, so she and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford. |
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| FBI probes counterfeit China computer parts |
9 May 08, 22:35 ET |
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| Reuters - The FBI on Friday said an
investigation into the sale of counterfeit Chinese computer
components to the U.S. government has recovered about 3,500
bogus devices with a retail value of $3.5 million. |
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| Deadly cyclone overshadows Myanmar's vote on constitution |
9 May 08, 22:29 ET |
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| AP - Voting began this city near Yangon and other parts of cyclone-ravaged Mayanmar Saturday on a referendum for a controversial constitution - but the balloting was delayed for two weeks in the hardest hit areas, including the capital. |
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| Israel will not tolerate nuclear Iran: Olmert |
9 May 08, 22:24 ET |
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| AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his warning that the Jewish state will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, but expressed hope the international community would be successful in checking Tehran's nuclear ambitions. |
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| 'Idol' finalists bask in adoration of home fans |
9 May 08, 21:53 ET |
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| AP - Everywhere they go, "American Idol" contestants attract a crowd of admirers, well-wishers, gushy handmade signs and screams fit for a vintage Beatle. But when it comes to feting finalists, home is where the "I (heart) you" is. |
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| Dig for human remains to begin at ranch where Manson hid |
9 May 08, 21:45 ET |
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| AP - The sheriff of the remote region where Charles Manson hid after a killing spree in the summer of 1969 said Friday that he will allow researchers to begin digging into the sandy soil in search of possible human remains. |
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| Omaha man says this was his second self-tracheotomy |
9 May 08, 21:32 ET |
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| AP - The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago. |
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| Uma Thurman sues Lancome in advertising dispute |
9 May 08, 21:29 ET |
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| AP - Uma Thurman responded to French cosmetics giant Lancome's lawsuit against her with one of her own Friday, taking their contract dispute over the use of her name and face in an advertising campaign to federal court. |
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| 6.7 quake jolts Guam; no damage or injuries reported |
9 May 08, 21:24 ET |
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| AP - An undersea earthquake off Guam with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 shook the U.S. territory Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. |
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| Obama picks up 9 superdelegates, union endorsement |
9 May 08, 21:22 ET |
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| 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 campaign. |
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| Aid is on the way to devastated Myanmar but so is heavy rain |
9 May 08, 21:21 ET |
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| AP - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar - but so is the heavy rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the isolated country. Myanmar gave the green light after confiscating other shipments, prompting the U.N. to order a temporary freeze in shipments. |
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| Wrecked Myanmar leaves India aid pilot speechless |
9 May 08, 21:17 ET |
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| Reuters - Miles of trees stripped of their leaves, heaps of rubble, twisted electricity poles and swarms of hungry people -- the first sights to greet Indian pilot Prashant Karde as he flew in aid for storm-wrecked Myanmar this week. |
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| Feds: Teen use of pot can lead to dependency, mental illness |
9 May 08, 21:17 ET |
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| AP - Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday. |
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| Walters: Jones going through 'difficult time' |
9 May 08, 21:08 ET |
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| AP - Barbara Walters says she refuses to engage in a debate with Star Jones, who accused her of revealing a past affair with a senator just to sell books. |
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| MLB suspends Mariners slugger Sexson for 6 games |
9 May 08, 21:04 ET |
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| 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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| Hulk Hogan's son sentenced to 8 months for crash |
9 May 08, 20:43 ET |
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| AP - The 17-year-old son of wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan was sentenced to eight months in jail Friday after he pleaded no contest to causing a crash that seriously injured his best friend. |
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| Bush declares northern Maine federal disaster after floods |
9 May 08, 20:32 ET |
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| AP - President Bush declared a northern Maine county a federal disaster on Friday after historic flooding that destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes this month. |
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| Lindsay Lohan walks away from Manson movie |
9 May 08, 20:28 ET |
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| Reuters - Lindsay Lohan passed up a role in a
movie about convicted killer Charles Manson in order to accept
two other offers, including a guest star turn on the TV comedy
"Ugly Betty," her publicist said on Friday. |
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| United get Rooney lift as title thriller reaches conclusion |
9 May 08, 20:26 ET |
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| AFP - Wayne Rooney is set to hand Manchester United a massive boost by declaring himself fit to take part in this weekend's dramatic finale to an exhilarating Premier League title battle. |
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| Natalie Portman exits "Wuthering Heights" |
9 May 08, 20:25 ET |
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| Reuters - Director John Maybury's
upcoming adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" is facing a casting
crisis after Natalie Portman pulled out of one of the main
roles. |
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| Kids, mom lived with 90-year-old's corpse for weeks in Wis. |
9 May 08, 20:23 ET |
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| AP - Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home's only bathroom, on the advice of a religious "superior" who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities said Friday. |
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| FBI Worried as DoD Sold Counterfeit Networking Gear |
9 May 08, 20:10 ET |
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| PC World - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the issue of counterfeit Cisco equipment very seriously, according to a... |
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| "Grey's Anatomy" carves out narrow win for ABC |
9 May 08, 20:08 ET |
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| Reuters - "Grey's Anatomy" halted
its post-strike declines Thursday night and led ABC to a narrow
victory over CBS. |
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| GOLD DIGGER'S GREED IS OBVIOUS TO ALL BUT HER WEALTHY FIANCE |
9 May 08, 19:59 ET |
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| Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: A man I know is engaged to a woman 20 years younger. I think she's a gold digger, and here's why: She waved his credit card around after he gave it to her saying, "Look what I've got!" (He was not present.) |
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| Johansson ready to take "private" songs public |
9 May 08, 19:56 ET |
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| Reuters - Scarlett Johansson describes the
recording of her Tom Waits covers album, "Anywhere I Lay My
Head," as an "intimate experience -- almost private, in a way." |
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| Arts panel criticizes MLK statue design for DC memorial |
9 May 08, 19:41 ET |
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| AP - The centerpiece for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall has drawn criticism from a federal arts panel, which says the proposed statue looks "confrontational" and resembles the head of a socialist state more than a civil rights leader. |
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| Military considering new cremation policies |
9 May 08, 19:41 ET |
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| AP - The Pentagon is recommending changes in the handling of troops' remains, after it was revealed that a crematorium contracted by the military handles both human and animal cremations. |
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| Analysis: 'Hillary Democrats' could be up for grabs |
9 May 08, 19:39 ET |
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| AP - With the racially tinged Democratic race drawing to an awkward close, Barack Obama and John McCain face the challenge of winning over "Hillary Democrats" - the white, working-class voters who favored the former first lady over Obama's historic candidacy. |
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| Ashton Kutcher is world's "happiliest" married man |
9 May 08, 19:24 ET |
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| Reuters - The planet's "happiliest" married
man, Ashton Kutcher, was once a champion carouser until he met
his wife five years ago and became a changed man. |
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| Apple agrees to settle iPod lawsuit |
9 May 08, 19:19 ET |
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| AP - Apple Inc. has agreed to settle a pair of class-action lawsuits in Canada alleging it misled customers about the staying power of their iPods, the latest courtroom truce over the dwindling battery life of early generations of the device. |
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| 70 people sickened during San Francisco conference |
9 May 08, 19:12 ET |
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| AP - It's a new kind of virus for Sun Microsystems Inc. |
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| E-mails filed in Secret Service racism lawsuit |
9 May 08, 18:49 ET |
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| AP - New evidence was filed Friday in a long-running civil rights case against the Secret Service, including e-mails that portray an offensive image of a naked black man and racist jokes. |
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| In big concession, militia agrees to let Iraqi troops into Sadr City |
9 May 08, 18:45 ET |
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| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad's Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. |
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| Body of woman, 90, found on toilet in inhabited Wis. home |
9 May 08, 18:43 ET |
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| AP - A sheriff's deputy discovered the remains of a 90-year-old woman on a toilet in a house she apparently shared with a woman and two children. |
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| Why the Obama-Clinton speculation is nuts |
9 May 08, 18:30 ET |
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| Politico - The sun may be setting on Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. But it is only just rising on what promises to be months of obsessive speculation, cheerleading and naysaying in a media and political circles on the next question: Clinton for vice president? |
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| A crash course in true political science |
9 May 08, 18:11 ET |
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| AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task - getting elected to public office. |
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| ON DEADLINE: What if Clinton had Obama's lead? |
9 May 08, 18:08 ET |
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| AP - Getting out is hard to do for any presidential candidate, doubly so when the name is Clinton. Hillary or Bill, graceful exits are not the Clinton style. Lose an election or an issue and they tend to dig in deeper. |
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| Military adds armor to Iraq vehicles as roadside bombs surge |
9 May 08, 17:51 ET |
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| 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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| Records show Sharpton owes overdue taxes, other penalties |
9 May 08, 17:50 ET |
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| 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 rights leader, a status that was demonstrated again this week when he led protests against police brutality that briefly shut down six of Manhattan's major bridges and tunnels. |
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| Toni Braxton's Las Vegas show to remain dark until June |
9 May 08, 17:32 ET |
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| AP - Toni Braxton's return to the stage on the Las Vegas strip has been pushed back for at least another month. |
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| Judge sends wrestler's son to jail for 8 months for crash |
9 May 08, 17:24 ET |
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| AP - A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving. Nick Bollea was led off to begin his sentence immediately after Friday's ruling. He will be on five years' probation and lose his driving privileges for three years. |
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| U.S. soldier fulfills his mission of getting Iraqi girl new legs |
9 May 08, 17:24 ET |
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| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood. |
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| No infectious outbreak on Canadian train: officials |
9 May 08, 17:14 ET |
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| Reuters - Canadian health officials said
on Friday that a death and reported outbreak of flu-like
symptoms aboard a cross-Canada train were not due to an
infectious disease and in fact were likely not related at all. |
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| Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket |
9 May 08, 17:03 ET |
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| 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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| Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits |
9 May 08, 17:00 ET |
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| PC World - Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a... |
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| R. Kelly faces jurors in child sex tape trial |
9 May 08, 16:58 ET |
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| AFP - Six years after R. Kelly was charged with filming himself having sex with a girl as young as 13, the rhythm and blues superstar's child pornography trial began Friday with jury selection. |
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| Rapper DMX arrested for drugs, animal cruelty |
9 May 08, 16:39 ET |
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| AP - DMX was arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges following an overnight raid on the rapper's house Friday, authorities said. |
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| Legally blind man, 78, bowls perfect game |
9 May 08, 16:27 ET |
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| AP - A 78-year-old legally blind man nicknamed "The Hammer" has bowled a perfect game. Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa, nailed 12 consecutive strikes and reached 300 on Saturday night during league play. |
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| Obama-Clinton Ticket Is Unlikely Option, Kennedy Says |
9 May 08, 16:23 ET |
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| Bloomberg - May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama isn't likely to pick rival Hillary Clinton as a
running mate, according to one of his most prominent supporters. |
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| England a not so green and pleasant land: tourist guide |
9 May 08, 15:53 ET |
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| AFP - England, famous across the world as the country of Shakespeare, royalty, fair play and manners, is a nation of "overweight, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed TV addicts", according to a new tourist guide. |
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| DMX arrested on drug, animal cruelty charges |
9 May 08, 15:46 ET |
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| AP - Authorities say DMX has been arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges in Phoenix following an overnight raid on the rapper's house. |
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| Countrywide falls on worry over B of A merger |
9 May 08, 15:39 ET |
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| Reuters - Countrywide Financial Corp
shares fell nearly 6 percent on Friday on renewed speculation
that Bank of America Corp will renegotiate or cancel
its agreement to buy the largest U.S. mortgage lender. |
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| In Oregon, Clinton hits Obama while he targets McCain |
9 May 08, 15:36 ET |
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| AP - Campaigning a few miles from each other Friday, Barack Obama trained his eye on November and the GOP, while Hillary Rodham Clinton battled for her political life, trying to hang on a few more weeks or even days in hopes of denying him the Democratic presidential nomination. |
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| Mortgage credit losses could total $500 bln: Goldman |
9 May 08, 15:25 ET |
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| Reuters - Goldman Sachs economists expect a
total of $500 billion in residential mortgage credit losses, a
renewed slowdown in economic activity after the near-term boost
from fiscal stimulus, and no monetary policy tightening in 2008
or 2009, according to a research note from the firm. |
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| 77 more hepatitis cases may trace to clinic, officials say |
9 May 08, 15:25 ET |
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| AP - Seventy-seven more people who were treated at a Las Vegas outpatient clinic have been diagnosed with hepatitis C, health officials said. |
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| Flu vaccine makers to set new doses record for next season |
9 May 08, 15:25 ET |
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| AP - Flu vaccine manufacturers expect to make a record number of doses for next flu season despite concerns that demand may drop because this year's vaccine was largely ineffective. |
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| Kim takes early control in swirling winds at Sawgrass |
9 May 08, 15:21 ET |
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| Reuters - American Anthony
Kim, the hottest player on the PGA Tour, defied swirling winds
to set the early pace in the second round of the Players
Championship on Friday. |
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| US says Syria, Iran behind Lebanon violence |
9 May 08, 15:18 ET |
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| AP - The Bush administration accused Iran and Syria on Friday of fueling ongoing violence in Lebanon by inciting members of the radical Shiite Hezbollah movement to take up arms against the country's western-backed government. |
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| Kentucky death row inmate: 'I'm ready and I'm sorry' |
9 May 08, 15:15 ET |
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| AP - Marco Allen Chapman is ready to die. After more than three years of waiting for courts to consider an appeal he never wanted, the death row inmate may soon get his wish and become the first person executed in Kentucky since 1999. |
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| Foxy Brown pleads guilty to menacing Brooklyn neighbor |
9 May 08, 15:11 ET |
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| 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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| One dead and 280 quarantined on Canadian train |
9 May 08, 15:11 ET |
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| 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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| Packaged pythons cause scare at German post office |
9 May 08, 15:00 ET |
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| AP - A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt say the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of more than 3 feet in length. |
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| Man finds Ill. woman's wallet that had been stolen in 1973 |
9 May 08, 14:55 ET |
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| AP - Sandy Baumberger says she never expected to see her wallet again when it was stolen 35 years ago. |
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| R. Kelly on trial for child pornography charges |
9 May 08, 14:50 ET |
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| Reuters - Six years after he was charged with
videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, R
superstar R. Kelly went on trial on Friday, with his alleged
victim prepared to deny she is the person on the tape. |
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| Relief falls far short in Myanmar, aid organizers say |
9 May 08, 14:48 ET |
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| AP - No helicopters. Almost no boats. Floods and fallen trees on the roads. |
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| 'Grand Theft Auto Success' Taxes IGN's Google-Powered Map |
9 May 08, 14:40 ET |
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| TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft's retailer survey also found more than 60% of all GTA games sold in the first week were for its Xbox 360 videogame console. |
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| Child safety seats should be centered in back seat |
9 May 08, 14:32 ET |
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| Reuters - Positioning child safety seats
in the center of the back seat could cut infants' and toddlers'
injury risks by nearly half, a new study suggests. |
| more |
| Hot state of hockey as Flyers, Penguins meet in East finals |
9 May 08, 14:31 ET |
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| AP - Some NHL rivalries evolve from a big game, a major trade or a short-lived scuffle, then fade after a few years. Not the Philadelphia Flyers vs. the Pittsburgh Penguins. |
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| Jazz down 2-0 to Lakers as series comes to Utah |
9 May 08, 14:25 ET |
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| AP - The Utah Jazz are hoping home court really is an advantage. Right now, they'll take any edge they can get. |
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| Train quarantined in Ontario with mystery illness |
9 May 08, 14:16 ET |
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| AP - Canadian authorities quarantined a train in northern Ontario Friday after a woman died and several other people came down with an undetermined illness. |
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| Chile volcanic eruption at critical stage: Expert |
9 May 08, 14:03 ET |
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| Reuters - A towering plume of ash
from an erupting volcano in Chile's remote Patagonia could
collapse back down to devastate the surrounding area, a leading
expert warned on Friday. |
| more |
| Health Tip: Signs of Depression |
9 May 08, 14:02 ET |
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| HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- About 15 of every 100 adults suffer from
depression, according to AARP. |
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| Nevada judge accused of demanding royal treatment |
9 May 08, 13:57 ET |
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| AP - Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen. |
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| Obama ready to try on Democratic crown |
9 May 08, 13:53 ET |
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| AFP - With the Democratic presidential nomination tantalizingly within his grasp, Barack Obama has begun to burnish his image as his party's standard-bearer in the quest to wrest the White House back from the Republicans. |
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| Canadian train in quarantine after death, illness |
9 May 08, 13:33 ET |
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| Reuters - One person died and several others were
taken to hospital after a mystery illness hit passengers on a
Canadian long-distance train, local media said on Friday. |
| more |
| Men charged after skull dug up, used as bong |
9 May 08, 13:27 ET |
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| Reuters - Authorities in Texas have filed
corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a
skull from a grave and used it as a bong. |
| more |
| "Self-important and irritating" |
9 May 08, 13:26 ET |
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| Reuters - England is an irritating and insular
country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts,
a new guide warns tourists. |
| more |
| Book lifts lid on star of eerie first Dracula film |
9 May 08, 13:26 ET |
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| Reuters - The first screen portrayal of Dracula
was so eerie, some critics asked whether the actor himself
could be a vampire. But since his death, little has been done
to resurrect Max Schreck's reputation -- until now. |
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| US official: 1 shipment to be allowed to Myanmar |
9 May 08, 13:00 ET |
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| AP - The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, Bush administration officials said Friday. |
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| Being breast-fed may lower breast cancer risk |
9 May 08, 12:56 ET |
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| Reuters - Adult women who were breast-fed
as infants may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer
than those who were not breast-fed, unless they were
first-born, study findings suggest. |
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| Glamorous Valentino targets new, less rich client |
9 May 08, 12:51 ET |
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| Reuters - Italy's Valentino, whose founder dressed
the Hollywood set and European royalty, wants to make the
luxurious brand accessible to the more price-conscious
consumer, the group CEO said on Friday. |
| more |
| Texas may claim Amazon owes sales taxes |
9 May 08, 12:49 ET |
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| AP - Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer. |
| more |
| Election in Serbia may cripple hunt for Gen. Ratko Mladic |
9 May 08, 12:45 ET |
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| AP - For 13 years, he has eluded capture for atrocities a U.N. judge described as "scenes from hell ... written on the darkest pages of human history." |
| more |
| Giantkiller Safina breaks Williams' unbeaten tennis run |
9 May 08, 12:37 ET |
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| AFP - Giantkiller Dinara Safina took her second major scalp in two days as she sent former world number one Serena Williams out of the German Open just 24 hours after dispatching top seed Justine Henin. |
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| Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident |
9 May 08, 12:36 ET |
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| AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. |
| more |
| Obama Unlikely to Pick Clinton as Running Mate, Kennedy Says |
9 May 08, 12:29 ET |
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| Bloomberg - May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama isn't likely to pick rival Hillary Clinton as a
running mate, according to one of his most prominent supporters. |
| more |
| World's most dangerous beaches |
9 May 08, 12:18 ET |
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| Reuters - A beach vacation usually conjures
up images of lying on white sand relaxing not dicing with death
but Forbes.com has come up with a list of the world's most
dangerous beaches. |
| more |
| Myanmar Flooding Seen From Space |
9 May 08, 12:15 ET |
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| LiveScience.com - The devastation wrought in Myanmar by a Tropical Cyclone Nargis is revealed in new NASA satellite images. |
| more |
| McCain disputes report that he didn't vote for Bush in 2000 |
9 May 08, 12:14 ET |
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| Bloomberg - May 9 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain said he voted for George W.
Bush twice for president, contradicting blogger Arianna
Huffington's report this week that he told people at a dinner
party that he didn't back Bush in 2000. |
| more |
| EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire |
9 May 08, 12:11 ET |
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| AP - EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes effect next month. |
| more |
| Man loses 28 relatives in Myanmar village hit by cyclone |
9 May 08, 12:06 ET |
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| AP - The 68-year-old fisherman tries to explain how a cyclone swept away the rest of his family, but he can utter only a few simple words before he is overcome by tears and trauma. |
| more |
| Obama wins praise from former rival John Edwards |
9 May 08, 11:53 ET |
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| Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama earned more
support from party leaders and won praise from former rival
John Edwards on Friday as he gathered momentum in his drive to
the U.S. presidential nomination. |
| more |
| Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow |
9 May 08, 11:50 ET |
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| AP - The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority. |
| more |
| Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case |
9 May 08, 11:35 ET |
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| 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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| UN to resume food aid flights to Myanmar |
9 May 08, 11:31 ET |
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| AP - The United Nations says it will resume food aid flights to Myanmar on Saturday. |
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| Clintons look to West Virginia for big win |
9 May 08, 10:51 ET |
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| AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton is counting on a victory in West Virginia, and it's her husband's job to run up the score. |
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| Jury selection set to begin in R. Kelly pornography trial |
9 May 08, 10:33 ET |
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| AP - Jury selection was set to start Friday in the long-delayed trial of one of urban music's biggest stars. |
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| Edwards says Obama could beat McCain |
9 May 08, 10:12 ET |
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| Reuters - Former Democratic presidential
hopeful John Edwards on Friday declined to make an endorsement
in the Democratic presidential battle, but said Barack Obama
could unite the party and win in November. |
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| Obama Needs a History Lesson |
9 May 08, 09:30 ET |
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| RealClearPolitics.com - In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon. |
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| March trade deficit drops by bigger-than-expected amount |
9 May 08, 09:24 ET |
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| AP - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in March as demand for imports fell by the largest amount since the last recession was ending. |
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