| SC wildfire biggest in more than 3 decades (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:17 am
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|  AP - South Carolina's biggest wildfire in more than three decades — a blaze four miles wide — destroyed dozens of homes Thursday and threatened some of the area's world-famous golf courses at the height of the spring tourist season.
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| Leno hospitalized with illness, cancels taping (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:19 pm
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|  AP - Jay Leno checked into a hospital with an undisclosed illness Thursday and canceled the taping of the "Tonight" show, but was doing well and planned to return next week, his publicist and NBC said.
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| Supplement given to polo horses incorrectly made (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:12 pm
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|  AP - Unable to legally bring a supplement into the U.S. to make their horses more resilient, a Venezuelan polo team used another way to get ready for a champion match: Have a pharmacy mix up the concoction. What happened next, though, was disastrous. The chemicals were mixed wrong, and 21 horses given the brew died in rapid succession, some collapsing just before taking the field in a championship polo match.
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| GOP chief: Sebelius must answer abortion questions (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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|  AP - The head of the Republican Party called on President Barack Obama to withdraw Kathleen Sebelius' nomination as health secretary unless she answers more questions on abortion.
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| Obama pledges protections for credit-card users (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:10 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he is determined to get a credit-card law that eliminates the tricky fine print, sudden rate increases and late fees that give millions of consumers headaches.
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| Holder won't selectively release terror memos (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:09 pm
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|  AP - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said he's willing to release as much information as possible about the interrogations.
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| AP IMPACT: Secret tally has 87,215 Iraqis dead (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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|  AP - Iraq's government has recorded 87,215 of its citizens killed since 2005 in violence ranging from catastrophic bombings to execution-style slayings, according to government statistics obtained by The Associated Press that break open one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war.
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| Man pretending to fall off bridge actually falls (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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| | AP - Police said a 23-year-old man is in stable condition after he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then actually fell off the bridge. Police got a call just before 5 a.m. Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a marshy area about 30 feet below. |
| 3rd 'Twilight' film director selected (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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| | AP - The "Twilight" movie franchise is getting its third director. |
| Shark dumped on Australian newspaper's doorstep (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:04 pm
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|  AP - Journalists have a lot to be nervous about lately: layoffs, furloughs, newspaper closures. But reporters at an Australian paper may have received the scariest threat of the day when a live shark was left on their doorstep. Police said the two-foot creature was spotted early Wednesday by a man who was leaving a McDonald's restaurant next door to the offices of The Standard in the small Victoria state town of Warrnambool.
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| Gates: More civilians required in Afghanistan (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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|  AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday told Marines being deployed to Afghanistan that a U.S. victory there would look similar to progress in Iraq, but he cautioned that more civilians with skills beyond the battlefield will be needed.
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| U.S. Democrats split on Bush-era interrogation probe (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|  Reuters - A debate over how to investigate Bush-era officials who authorized harsh interrogation tactics of terrorism suspects split Washington on Thursday, and Democrats squabbled over how to proceed.
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| S.C. wildfire is biggest in more than 3 decades (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 6:12 pm
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|  AP - South Carolina's biggest wildfire in more than three decades — a blaze four miles wide — destroyed dozens of homes Thursday and threatened some of the area's world-famous golf courses at the height of the spring tourist season.
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| Chrysler lenders preparing counter offer: sources (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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|  Reuters - Chrysler LLC's first-lien lenders are preparing another counter-offer to the U.S. Treasury that involves reducing the automaker's debt, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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| Obama pledges protections for credit-card users (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:58 pm
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| AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he is determined to get a credit-card law that eliminates the tricky fine print, sudden rate increases and late fees that give millions of consumers headaches.
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| AP IMPACT: Secret tally has 87,215 Iraqis dead (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:58 pm
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|  AP - Iraq's government has recorded 87,215 of its citizens killed since 2005 in violence ranging from catastrophic bombings to execution-style slayings, according to government statistics obtained by The Associated Press that break open one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war.
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| US 'torture memos' could not be kept secret: Gates (AFP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:34 pm
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|  AFP - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday it would have been "unrealistic" to keep secret sensitive memos on harsh interrogations as their eventual disclosure was "inevitable."
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| Cow genome unraveled in bid to improve meat, milk (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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|  AP - The cow is of the bovine ilk, one end is moo, the other, milk. Now science knows why which is which, they've read the genome, without a hitch. While poet Ogden Nash had cow basics down, it took 300 scientists six years to outline the genetic sequence of "L1 Dominette 01449," a Hereford cow living on a research farm near Miles City, Mont.
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| Taliban Advance: Is Pakistan Nearing Collapse? (Time.com)
April 23, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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|  Time.com - The Taliban's move from the Swat Valley into the Buner district has raised alarms both within the country and abroad
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| AP Newsbreak: Pharmacy made mistake in horse drug (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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|  AP - An official at a Florida pharmacy said Thursday the business incorrectly prepared a supplement given to 21 polo horses that died over the weekend while preparing to play in a championship match.
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| Jobs, housing data undermine recovery hopes (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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|  AP - Worse-than-expected news on unemployment and home sales Thursday dampened optimism that a broad economic recovery might be near.
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| Reputed Hitler watercolors sell at English auction (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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|  AP - What a British auction house claims are a set of paintings and sketches by a young Adolf Hitler sold at auction Thursday for 97,672 pounds ($143,358).
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| Blasts kill 78 in Iraq's bloodiest day in a year (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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|  AP - Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims Thursday, killing at least 78 people in Iraq's deadliest day in more than a year.
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| U.S. prepares bankruptcy filing for Chrysler: report (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 3:53 pm
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|  Reuters - The Treasury is preparing a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for Chrysler LLC that could come as soon as next week, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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| Scientists make super-strong metallic spider silk (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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|  Reuters - Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal.
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| AP Poll: After Obama's 100 days, US on right track (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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|  AP - Millions of people jobless. Billions of dollars in bailouts. Trillions of dollars in U.S. debt. And yet, for the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is on the right track.
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| First lady jokes new puppy is 'kind of crazy' (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm
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|  AP - First dog Bo is a "kind of crazy" puppy who likes to chew on people's feet, Michelle Obama told children visiting the White House on Thursday.
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| 18 Somalis in court as Kenya holds pirate trials (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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|  AP - Shabbily dressed and solemn, 18 Somali men nabbed at sea and hauled ashore by European navies crowded into a Mombasa courthouse Thursday to face piracy charges that could put them behind bars for life.
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| Mind-Reading Device Sends Twitter Messages (LiveScience.com)
April 23, 2009 at 11:43 am
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|  LiveScience.com - Twitter messages are so short - a 140-character limit - that you have to really think about what you want to say.
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| FDA to allow 'morning-after' pill for 17-year-olds (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 10:54 am
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|  AP - Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens.
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| WSJ: BofA CEO says was told to be quiet on Merrill (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 10:33 am
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|  AP - Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis told the New York attorney general he believed former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wanted him to keep quiet about the worsening terms of the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch, according to testimony reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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| U.S. existing home sales slip in March (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 10:14 am
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|  Reuters - The pace of sales of existing homes in the United States fell 3.0 percent in March to a much lower-than-expected annual rate of 4.57 million units, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday.
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| Worrying Over Fading Memory Makes it Worse (LiveScience.com)
April 23, 2009 at 9:24 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Worried your memory will fade as you age? Don't think about it! |
| Philippine court acquits U.S. marine of rape (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 7:53 am
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|  Reuters - A Philippine appeals court on Thursday overturned the conviction of a U.S. marine for rape, citing lack of evidence, a court ruling said.
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| Credit companies brace for W.H. visit (Politico)
April 23, 2009 at 5:18 am
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|  Politico - Last fall, a group of credit card companies asked Lawrence Summers for a sit-down, with the goal of “educating” the incoming Obama administration about their much-maligned industry.
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| Vote caps decade-long gay marriage fight in Conn. (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:14 am
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|  AP - A decade-long battle for marriage equality in Connecticut ended late Wednesday when the General Assembly voted to update the state's marriage laws to conform with a landmark court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to tie the knot.
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| Countries trying to cope with severe global slump (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 3:43 am
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|  AP - World finance officials may be faced with the worst global downturn since the Great Depression, but that doesn't mean they are ready to stop squabbling over the details of a plan to get out of the mess.
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| Chewing gum may raise maths grades in teens (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 3:27 am
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| | Reuters - In a study likely to make school janitors cringe, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday that chewing gum may boost academic performance in teenagers. |
| Duped Brides Discover They Were Taken To The Cleaners (Dear Abby)
April 23, 2009 at 2:16 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: Believe me, I sympathize with "Duped in California" (Feb. 2). After my wedding in 1979 I sent my gown to a recommended dry cleaner and got the precious box back after waiting more than a month. It was sealed, with instructions to keep it sealed to preserve it. |
| Youth volunteering dips, first time since 9/11 (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 12:04 am
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|  AP - Volunteering has helped define a generation of young Americans who are known for their do-gooder ways. Many high schools require community service before graduation. And these days, donating time to a charitable organization is all but expected on a young person's college or job application.
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| Colo. man convicted of murdering transgender woman (AP)
April 22, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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|  AP - A man who claimed he snapped before killing a transgender woman was swiftly convicted of first-degree murder and a hate crime Wednesday for savagely beating the woman with a fire extinguisher.
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