| Obama urges Iran to affirm peaceful nuclear energy (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 5:21 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama said the U.S. will proceed with development of a missile defense system in Europe as long as there is an Iranian threat of nuclear weapons.
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| Obama: N. Korea launch threatens nations near, far (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 4:23 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama, pushing plans to rid the world of nuclear arms, said Sunday that North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket underscores the urgency of his weapons agenda.
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| Wash. police: Father kills 5 children, himself (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 1:59 am
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|  AP - A father apparently shot to death five of his children, ages 7 to 16, at their mobile home and then killed himself near a casino miles away, police said Saturday.
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| NKorea launches rocket, defying world pressure (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 1:55 am
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|  AP - North Korea fired a rocket over Japan on Sunday, defying Washington, Tokyo and other world leaders who suspect the launch was cover for a test of its long-range missile technology. President Barack Obama warned the move would further isolate the communist nation.
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| Metallica, Run-DMC inducted into Rock Hall of Fame (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 1:09 am
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|  AP - Metallica shoved the mosh pit into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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| McCartney and Starr reunite for meditation (Reuters)
April 5, 2009 at 1:02 am
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| | Reuters - The surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, performed together on Saturday to raise money to help kids learn a meditation technique the 1960s icons practiced at the height of their fame. |
| Shrinking airlines park more planes in the desert (AP)
April 5, 2009 at 12:01 am
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| | AP - Old jets come here, empty engine pods shrink-wrapped in white, tall red tails fading to pink in the desert sun. More will come soon. Some will never fly again. |
| Analysis: Negotiating a minefield of bad news (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:40 pm
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|  AP - Does the name Byran Uyesugi ring a bell? Odds are not. What about Robert A. Hawkins? Or Mark Barton? Terry Ratzmann? Robert Stewart?
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| As gunman's life fell apart, he took others' (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:30 pm
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|  AP - Jiverly Wong was upset over losing his job at a vacuum plant, didn't like people picking on him for his limited English and once angrily told a co-worker, "America sucks."
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| Threat to shut Boston Globe shows no paper is safe (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:27 pm
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|  AP - When it bought the Boston Globe for a record $1.1 billion in 1993, the New York Times Co. added one of the nation's most acclaimed and profitable newspapers to its empire.
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| One man's ambivalent retreat from his racist past (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 9:39 pm
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|  AP - Elwin Hope Wilson leans back in his recliner, a sad, sickly man haunted by time.
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| Gunman 'lying in wait' kills 3 Pittsburgh officers (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 9:36 pm
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|  AP - A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, police said.
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| Europe praises Obama, pledges few Afghan troops (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - European leaders enthusiastically praised President Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy at a NATO summit Saturday but held their ground on a central disagreement and offered only military trainers and extra security forces for upcoming elections.
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| Kidnapped American UN worker freed in Pakistan (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 8:15 pm
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|  AP - An American U.N. worker abducted more than two months ago turned up unharmed Saturday, lying alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading "Help me, help me," the man who found him said.
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| Obama hails 5,000 more NATO forces for Afghanistan (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama hailed "strong and unanimous support" from NATO allies on Saturday for his stepped-up anti-terror strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and welcomed their "down payment" promises of 5,000 fresh forces.
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| Estimate says bailout will cost taxpayers more (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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|  AP - Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 billion more than originally anticipated, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
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| Metallica, Run-DMC headed to Rock Hall of Fame (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 7:50 pm
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|  AP - Hello, Cleveland. It's been a while. Just as Derek Smalls, the fictional bassist for Spinal Tap yelled as he and his bandmates stumbled around backstage looking for a Cleveland stage in the iconic rockumentary, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony found its way back to this self-proclaimed rock capital on Saturday.
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| One man's ambivalent retreat from his racist past (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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| AP - Elwin Hope Wilson leans back in his recliner, a sad, sickly man haunted by time.
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| Obama adviser paid millions as hedge fund director (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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| | AP - Lawrence Summers, President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, earned millions over the past year as managing director of the hedge fund D.E. Shaw Group and through speaking fees, some from financial institutions now at the center of the government's rescue program. |
| Analysis: Nation negotiates minefield of bad news (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 4:22 pm
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|  AP - Does the name Byran Uyesugi ring a bell? Odds are not. What about Robert A. Hawkins? Or Mark Barton? Terry Ratzmann? Robert Stewart?
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| Chavez hopes to "reset" U.S.-Venezuela relations (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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|  Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he hopes to "reset" relations with the United States at an Americas summit this month after nearly a decade of tensions between Caracas and Washington.
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| Police official: 3 officers killed in Pa. shooting (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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| AP - A man opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call Saturday morning, killing three of them, a police official said. Friends said he recently had been upset about losing his job and that he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.
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| Moore, Nugent, Wilson sound off on Detroit (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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|  AP - Michael Moore says parts of it look like "the landscape of another planet."
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| Obama adviser Summers earned millions from hedge fund (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 1:53 pm
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|  Reuters - Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, was paid about $5.2 million by hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the past year, financial disclosure forms released by the White House showed on Friday.
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| Analysis: Obama's trip: Big cheers, some results (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 1:37 pm
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|  AP - Stop after stop, crowds are thronging, leaders gushing, headlines blaring. Even a roomful of foreign reporters applauded after President Barack Obama's London news conference.
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| Michelle Obama dodges protesters and kisses Carla (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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|  AP - It was perhaps not what Michelle Obama expected on her first presidential foray to France. But it was certainly very French.
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| Calif woman gets 6 years for fatal texting crash (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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| | AP - A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles. |
| Analysis: In US, Europe a delicate political topic (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 11:55 am
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|  AP - He came and he saw, but he didn't play the conqueror. Instead, Barack Obama journeyed to Europe, as he put it, to pay attention.
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| Afghan leader orders review of Shi'ite law (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 at 11:18 am
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|  Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered a review of a new law for Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority after Western nations raised concerns over its impact on women's rights, Western officials said on Saturday.
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| Shrinking airlines park more planes in the desert (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 10:45 am
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|  AP - Old jets come here, empty engine pods shrink-wrapped in white, tall red tails fading to pink in the desert sun. More will come soon. Some will never fly again.
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| NY gunman angry over poor English skills, job loss (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 9:04 am
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|  AP - The man who police say killed 13 people in a shooting rampage inside an immigrant community center was depressed and angry over losing his job and about his poor English skills, the Binghamton mayor and police said Saturday.
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| France, Germany endorse Obama's Afghanistan plans (AP)
April 4, 2009 at 7:32 am
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|  AP - France and Germany fully endorsed President Barack Obama's new Afghan war strategy but continued to firmly resist U.S. demands for more combat troops on Saturday in a rift that overshadowed symbols of unity at NATO's 60th-anniversary summit.
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