| Body of missing Northern California girl, 8, found (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 2:26 am
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|  AP - A few miles from the irrigation pond where the body of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu was discovered in a suitcase, authorities roped off the mobile home park where she was last seen searching for clues to her death.
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| Foreign Graduate Applications to U.S. Slow
April 7, 2009 at 12:14 am
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|  The number of students from China and the Mideast applying to U.S. graduate programs surged, while applications from India and South Korea fell.
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| Dave Batista Is Back On Raw
April 7, 2009 at 12:04 am
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|  On tonight's Raw, President and CEO of the WWE, placed himself in a match against Randy Orton that was to take place as the main event, only after Vince made a match pinning hisself, Triple H and Shane McMahon in a six man tag team match at Backlash with Orton, Rhodes and Dibiase as their opponents. As the main event started it seemed like Vince was going to do some damage to Randy, but to my dismay, it was short lived. Orton was punishing Vince and Of course Orton thought he was going to punt Mr. McMahon in the head again but much to his surprise, Shane McMahon jumped in before Randy could do anymore damage. Soon after, Orton's sidekicks Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase JR, weren't far behind Shane. Triple H, headed for the ring as well. All hell broke loose after that. The three amigos ganged up on Triple H and started pummeling him. Out of nowhere, a familiar song plays and everyone is in shock as Dave Batista comes out. Randy's jaw dropped to the floor. For once, he was speechless. The crowd goes crazy as he jumps into the squared circle and spears Orton. Bodies are flung everywhere and Rhodes is left in the ring alone with Batista. The Batista Bomb is inevitable. Rhodes can't escape and gets what is coming to him. Mr. McMahon makes an announcement and says that he won't be making it to Backlash but, in his place will be Dave Batista. Maybe at Backlash, Triple H, Shane and Batista will finally shut Randy Orton's and his little posse known as Legacy's mouths shut for good. I know, that many fans, I for one, have no love for Orton, but he is a good wrestler, but I honestly think he's finally going to get a punishment that is long over due. You would think that he would've learned a lesson after the beat down he recieved from Triple H at Wrestlemania 25. What's it going to take or rather who is it going to take to close the legend killer's mouth? In my opinion, it'll be Batista.
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| Sandra Cantu Found Dead In Tracy Pond
April 7, 2009 at 12:02 am
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|  Authorities grimly announced Monday evening that they have conclusively identified the remains found sealed into a suitcase that was dumped into a Tracy pond as missing eight-year-old Sandra Cantu, news that stunned the local community.
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| Authorities say man claimed plot to kill Obama (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 11:26 pm
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|  AP - Turkish police have arrested a man who claimed he was plotting to kill President Barack Obama during his visit to Turkey.
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| U.S. SEC to consider about 4 short sale proposals (Reuters)
April 6, 2009 at 9:42 pm
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|  Reuters - U.S. securities regulators will consider about 4 proposals to restrict short selling, a type of investing blamed for accelerating the severe downturn in financial services stocks.
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| Divorce filings accuse Nevada governor of affairs (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:52 pm
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|  AP - First lady Dawn Gibbons accuses Gov. Jim Gibbons in divorce papers of having extramarital affairs with a former Playboy magazine model and another woman to whom he sent hundreds of text messages last year. The Republican governor has been untruthful about his "infidelity" with the two women, his estranged wife says in a divorce filing, which was unsealed Monday by a court order in Washoe County Family Court.
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| Study finds 1 in 5 obese among 4-year-olds (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:38 pm
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|  AP - A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese. Researchers were surprised to see differences by race at so early an age.
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| Rescue workers in Italy search for survivors after quake kills over 150 (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:32 pm
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|  AP - Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades struck this medieval city before dawn Monday, killing more than 150 people, injuring 1,500 and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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| NY gunman's rambling, paranoid letter blames cops (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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|  AP - Suspected gunman Jiverly Wong felt tormented by police. They snuck into his room and touched him while he was sleeping, he thought. They stole $20 from his wallet. Because of them, he lost his job. Because of them, he was poor and his life was a mess.
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| CC, Teixeira fizzle in Yankees debuts (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:13 pm
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| CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira won't soon forget their debut with the New York Yankees -- no matter how hard they try. Sabathia failed to get out of the fifth inning Monday in a 10-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles, and Mark couldn't buy a hit with that $180 million the Yankees heaped upon him during the offseason.
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| Japan is Outraged Over North Korean Missile
April 6, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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|  Tokyo's frenzied response to North Korea's missile launch may have helped Kim Jong Il.
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| Big cuts seen for F-22, other big weapon programs (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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| The nation should stop pouring billions into futuristic, super-expensive F-22 jet fighters, pull the plug on new presidential helicopters and put the money into systems U.S. soldiers can use against actual foes, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared Monday.
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| Academy Of Country Music Awards Red Carpet Beauties
April 6, 2009 at 7:10 pm
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|  Nicole Kidman, Miley Cyrus and Carrie Underwood looking lovely The 44th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards was held last night in Las Vegas, Nevada and brought out the stars of country music. The red carpet was beaming with beauties. The younger gals - Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood - looked great as usual. Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves were also there. Camila was looking hot in her short white dress. But, it was Nicole Kidman who would have won for most daring dress. She was looking fabulous in black, showing off her back and having a great time with hubby Keith Urban. Happiness agrees with her! How do these young mothers stay looking so hot? I once heard Nicole Kidman say in an interview when asked how she stays thin, "Well remember, I am six foot one". Well, that's not a workout secret I can take advantage of, but it's an honest answer reminding the rest of us who aren't 6'1" to not worry that we don't look exactly like Nicole.
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| Chris Brown back in Court
April 6, 2009 at 7:10 pm
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|  And we are sure the drama will continue. Things have been quiet on the rumor front with regard to Rihanna and Chris Brown. Chris has staying out of trouble while working, going to counseling and playing b-ball, while we told you last week that Rihanna landed in Hawaii and has been also working and just keeping to herself. Now, we expect things to heat up again. The 19 year old singer will be back in a Los Angeles courtroom to enter his plea this afternoon. As you recall, Chris was charged with two felonies - assault and making criminal threats - in the alleged beating of girlfriend Rihanna on Grammy Night (Feb. 8).We expect he will enter a plea of not-guilty. Is that an honest plea or a tactic for the defense? Yes, we still aren't 100% sure what actually happened and will have to wait and see how the court rules. Maybe Rihanna will come out and tell us what actually happened. Is she protecting him or just keeping private matters private? Well, according to People Magazine, a source is saying that the pair have remained in contact but are taking a break from their relationship. We say, "Good for you Rihanna". Stay strong and away from anyone who even thinks of laying a hand on you.
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| Clinton pressing UN on North Korean launch (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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|  AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is lobbying key members of the U.N. Security Council to respond to North Korea's missile launch. Clinton said Monday that she spoke with the foreign ministers from the four other countries that have been involved in negotiations with North Korea to end its nuclear activities. They include Russia and China, which hold veto power in the Security Council.
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| Arianna Huffington: The Obama Economic Team's Flawed Cosmology: Still Believing the Universe Revolves Around the Banks
April 6, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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|  A series of recent meetings with members of Barack Obama's economic team (including running into Larry Summers on my way to an appointment in the West Wing, leading to a spirited back-and-forth that made me feel like I was back at Cambridge, debating the smarted kid in the class), left me with a pair of indelible impressions: 1) These are all good people, many of them brilliant, working incredibly hard with the best of intentions to solve the country's financial crisis. 2) They are operating on the basis of an outdated cosmology that places banks at the center of the economic universe. Talking about our financial crisis with them is like beaming back to the 2nd century and discussing astronomy with Ptolemy. Just as Ptolemy was convinced we live in a geocentric universe -- and made the math work to "prove" his flawed theories -- Obama's senior economic team is convinced we live in a bank-centric universe, and keeps offering its versions of "epicycles" and "eccentric circles" to rationalize their approach to the bailout. And because, like Ptolemy, they are really smart, they are really good at rationalizing. It's easy to get lost debating the complexity of each new iteration of each new bailout, but the devil here is not in the details -- but in the obsolete cosmology. If you believe the universe is revolving around the earth -- when, in fact, it isn't -- all the good intentions in the world, and all the endless nights spent coming up with plans like Tim Geithner's Public-Private Investment Program will be for naught. The successive bailout plans have been frustrating to many observers (yours truly included), but when you realize how fully the economic team is mired in a bank-centric universe, all the moves suddenly make perfect sense. Here is one example. Everybody agrees on the paramount importance of freeing up credit for individuals and businesses. In a bank-centric universe, the solution was a bailout plan giving hundreds of billions to banks. It failed because, instead of using the money to make loans, the banks "are keeping it in the bank because their balance sheets had gotten so bad," as the president himself acknowledged on Jay Leno. As a result, the administration, again according to the president, had to "set up a securitized market for student loans and auto loans outside of the banking system" in order to "get credit flowing again." But think of all the time we wasted while the first scheme predictably failed. And how much better off we'd now be if we had provided credit directly through credit unions or small healthy community banks or, as happened during the Depression, through a new entity like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Luckily, there is a plethora of economic Galileos out there who recognize that the old bank-centric cosmology is just plain wrong. But while Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, Jeffrey Sachs, Nassim Taleb, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, etc. are not being imprisoned for life for their heretical views -- they are also not being listened to. Which is really surprising for an administration that has prided itself on a "team of rivals" approach. Worse, as the fundamental flaw in the administration's cosmology becomes more and more evident, the economic team around the president is closing ranks. Even David Axelrod, once the administration's champion of a more skeptical view of a bank-centric universe, appears to be peering through the Geithner-Summers telescope. Back in February, he crossed swords with Geithner, arguing for executive pay caps. But there he was on Sunday, whiffing on a pro-populist softball offered up by Fox News' Chris Wallace, who asked: "When taxpayers are putting up most of the money and taking more of the risk, why would the Obama administration allow some of these executives to get even richer?" Axelrod's answer? "On some of these programs, we're asking financial companies to come in and help solve this problem by providing more lending, by buying up toxic assets and so on. We don't want to create disincentives and undermine the program." "Asking" them? Aren't we, in fact, bribing them with massive capital infusions and loan guarantees? That's what being surrounded by a group of modern day Ptolemys will do to a person. Of course, it's less of a surprise that Geithner and Summers believe in bank-centrism -- they're both creatures of it. Which is why it wasn't a shock when it was reported this weekend that Summers had received $5.2 million for advising a hedge fund last year, or that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from some of the very banks -- including J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs -- that have been on the receiving end of billions in taxpayers money. Billions that have come with very few strings attached -- and almost no transparency. I am in no way suggesting there is anything corrupt about this or any quid pro quo involved. It's just that in a bank-centric universe, funneling no-strings-attached money to too-big-to-fail banks is the logical thing to do. So is arguing that the banking crisis is just a liquidity problem rather than an insolvency one, as Geithner continues to do (and if the stress tests come back declaring Citi solvent, it will be high time to start stress testing the stress testers). In a bank-centric universe, it's also no surprise that "mark-to-market" accounting rules, in which banks have to calculate and report their assets based on what those assets are actually worth, instead of what they'd like them to be worth, are being abandoned. A good name for the reworked accounting standards would be mark-to-fantasy, because that's basically what balance sheets will be under these new rules. Of course, to a true believer in bank-centrism, the problem with mark-to-market is that it's not good for the banks. It's the accounting equivalent of Galileo's telescope. Last week at the G-20 meeting, Gordon Brown proclaimed that "the old Washington consensus is over." But when it comes to attacking the financial crisis, the zombie Wall Street/Washington consensus that has everything in America orbiting around the banks is still the order of the day. The longer bank-centrism is the dominant cosmology in the Obama administration -- and the longer it takes to switch to a plan that reflects a cosmology in which the American people are the center of the universe and are deemed too-big-to-fail -- the greater the risk that the economic crisis will be more prolonged than necessary. And the greater the suffering the crisis will continue to cause. There is an enormous human cost to this bank-centric dogma. Unemployment, already at levels not seen since 1983, is skyrocketing. In many places in the country, it's approaching 20 percent (and in Detroit it's 22 percent). Writing about the "grand book" that is the universe, Galileo declared that it "cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written... without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth." That's where we find ourselves today, wandering about in a dark financial labyrinth -- being led by good men blinded by an obsolete view of the world. President Obama needs to open his inner economic circle to those untethered to this flawed way of thinking and acknowledge that navigating our economic crisis using maps based on a cosmology that places banks at the center of the universe can only lead to our being lost at sea for years to come. Please join me on Twitter and Facebook.
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| Get Ready to Rumble: Wrestlemania XXV
April 6, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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|  Mickey Rourke, Kid Rock, and Nicole Scherzinger join forces with WWE's biggest stars for Wrestlemania XXV at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
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| Colin Powell to appear on home makeover show (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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|  AP - Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will appear on prime time to thank a disabled Gulf War veteran for his service.
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| Keith livid about Rolling Stone story by Hawke (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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|  AP - Ethan Hawke might want to avoid crossing paths with Toby Keith in the near future.
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| Defense chief proposes weapons cuts (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 3:22 pm
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| Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday recommended halting production of the F-22 fighter jet and scrapping a new helicopter for the president as he outlined deep cuts to many of the military's biggest weapons programs.
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| Could MacHeist Prompt Apple into an App Store for Macs?
April 6, 2009 at 2:28 pm
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| Fast Company takes a look at MacHeist, a fast growing bundle sale and charity drive event in the Mac community. They've raised over $500,000 for charity in under two weeks, and wonders if Apple can take some hints and create a successful App Store for Mac software.
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| Neb. family that had been missing now in custody (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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|  AP - A couple who disappeared with their children, leading to a search of the South Dakota wilderness, turned themselves in to authorities near their Nebraska home on Monday, a sheriff said.
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| Fawcett's cancer worsens
April 6, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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|  Farrah Fawcett's cancer has spread to her liver, according to a producer on her documentary.
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| Fund manager hit with civil charge in Madoff fraud (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 1:51 pm
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| New York's attorney general filed civil fraud charges Monday against a hedge fund manager who funneled $2.4 billion to Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff without telling clients where their money was going.
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| Defense secretary proposes budget that cuts weapons
April 6, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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| Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday released a $534 billion budget proposal that "reshapes the priorities of America's defense ...
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| VOTE: Michelle Obama's Bow?!
April 6, 2009 at 1:46 pm
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|  The First Lady has been knocking it out of the international park with her fashion choices on the Obamas' world tour, but what about her latest bow ensemble? Was it questionable? Vote!
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| Obama Making Costly Mistake by Ignoring "Populist" Rage
April 6, 2009 at 1:38 pm
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| Ambassador Susan Rice: 'We're Very Concerned' About Detained Current TV Journalists
April 6, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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|  Laura Ling and Euna Lee will be tried for 'illegal entry and hostile acts'; parents of American journalist Roxana Saberi finally get to visit daughter in Iran's Evin Prison
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| 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards Fashion: Best and Worst Dressed
April 6, 2009 at 12:47 pm
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|  At the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, our southern friends proved to us that although they may have grown up in trailer parks, they can wash up real nice like. And don't worry, we're not going easy on them just because they sing with a twang and prefer turquoise jewelry. Most of the stars knocked our boots off when they captured current trends like one-shouldered dresses, but there were a few that preferred to stick with the country stereotype. See all the red carpet looks. Here's…
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| Italy muzzled scientist who predicted quake
April 6, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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| An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing more than 90 people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic.
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| Arctic sea ice thinnest ever going into spring (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 11:57 am
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|  AP - The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.
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| Carrie Underwood big winner at ACM Awards
April 6, 2009 at 11:49 am
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|  Carrie Underwood was named entertainer of the year and top female vocalist at Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards. Other winners included Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley and Julianne Hough. (April 6)
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| Supreme Court won't hear appeals from Navy chaplains
April 6, 2009 at 11:47 am
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| The Supreme Court has refused to get in the middle of a fight between the Navy and some of its chaplains over complaints that ...
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| 2009 ACMA Red Carpet
April 6, 2009 at 11:10 am
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|  Nashville's biggest stars, including Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift, arrive at the 44th annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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| Earthquake Warning Was Removed From Internet
April 6, 2009 at 8:58 am
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| As the Italian town of L'Aquila searches for survivors in the rubble of a deadly earthquake, a seismologist says that his warning that the quake was coming was dismissed by the authorities.
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| Fawcett treated for cancer's spread to liver (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:44 am
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|  AP - Farrah Fawcett is being treated for anal cancer that has spread to her liver and has been hospitalized for a complication from a routine treatment, a producer who worked with the actress and her doctor said Monday.
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| Sallie Mae to add 2,000 jobs to US in 18 months (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:43 am
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| AP - Sallie Mae gave some hope to the unemployed Monday, announcing it will bring 2,000 jobs to the U.S. within the next 18 months as it shifts call center and other operations from overseas.
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| Madoff's yacht seized in on French Riviera (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:21 am
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| Another of Bernard Madoff's trophy assets has been seized, this time in the south of France. French authorities on the Cote d'Azur have chained up his $7 million yacht "Bull" at a marina in the exclusive Mediterranean enclave of Cap d'Antibes, between Cannes and Nice.
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| Obama: U.S. Not at War With Islam
April 6, 2009 at 8:14 am
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|  In his first appearance as U.S. president in a Muslim nation, Obama waded into some of Turkey's thorniest issues, the slaughter of Armenians in World War I and the rising power of political Islam in a secular state.
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| MASSACRE COPS FEEL HEAT IN BINGHAMTON
April 6, 2009 at 6:29 am
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|  Embattled authorities yesterday said they were right to wait 40 minutes outside a Binghamton immigration center before entering and finding 13 people massacred inside. Cops first arrived at the American Civic Association at 10:33 a.m. Friday, three minutes after the first 911 calls started pouring...
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| Afghan president praises Obama's new war plan
March 28, 2009 at 5:13 am
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| Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday praised U.S. President Barack Obama's new plan for the war in Afghanistan. |
| Button claims pole for F1 new boys Brawn GP
March 28, 2009 at 4:58 am
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| Britain's Jenson Button claimed pole position for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne -- leading a sweep of the front row for Formula One new boys Brawn GP. |
| Russia to build 6 nuclear subs with cruise missiles
March 28, 2009 at 4:11 am
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| Russia will build at least six nuclear-powered submarines with long-range cruise missiles for its navy, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told the Itar-Tass news agency. |
| Malaysia leader poised to resign
March 28, 2009 at 4:01 am
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| Malaysia's prime minister wants to step down and has scheduled a meeting with the supreme ruler of the country to hand in his letter of resignation, Malaysia's national news agency reported Saturday. |
| Young couple moves in with her ex-husband
March 28, 2009 at 2:21 am
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| Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband. |
| Afghan, coalition forces kill 12 militants
March 28, 2009 at 2:07 am
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| Twelve militants were killed in a firefight with Afghan and coalition forces in Helmand province, U.S. military officials said. |
| Suburban 'tsunami' kills 77 in Jakarta
March 28, 2009 at 1:16 am
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| Rescuers widened the search for victims Saturday in the aftermath of a flash flood that killed at least 77 people in Indonesia's capital. |
| AIG director named to Obama tax task force
March 28, 2009 at 12:27 am
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| One of the people named this week to President Obama's new Task Force on Tax Reform is a member of the AIG board of directors. |
| Texas board comes down on 2 sides of creationism debate
March 27, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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| Dueling theories of how the universe was created got a split decision Friday night from the Texas Board of Education, which required examination of "all sides of scientific evidence" in new science standards, but rejected language requiring teachers to teach the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories. |
| 7 Filipino soldiers slain in separatist attack
March 27, 2009 at 11:10 pm
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| Seven soldiers were killed Friday when they were attacked by Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines, the military said. |
| Saudi king appoints successor's successor to throne
March 27, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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| Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Friday appointed Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz to be the nation's second deputy prime minister, making him second in line to the kingdom's throne, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said. |
| Kurtz: Exploring the scene at octuplets' house
March 27, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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| Gloria Allred was at the octuplet mom's house when the confrontation began. |
| Officials: Afghanistan strategy formed with great deliberation
March 27, 2009 at 8:50 pm
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| President Obama's unveiling Friday of a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan was made only after a thorough interagency review of the region with input from several sources, administration officials said. |
| Commentary: Obama anti-terror plan could be doomed to fail
March 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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| The Obama plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan announced Friday has a great deal to recommend it, with its emphasis on protecting the Afghan population and delivering more aid directly to the Pakistani people instead of to the Pakistan army. |
| Napolitano unveils plan for 'leaner, smarter' Homeland Security
March 27, 2009 at 6:36 pm
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| Some people may think the words "government" and "efficiency" don't belong in the same sentence. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano does not agree. |
| U.S., Japan mobilize for N. Korean launch
March 27, 2009 at 6:29 pm
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| Japan is mobilizing its missile defense system, and U.S. Navy ships are deploying to the Sea of Japan, as North Korea prepares to launch a rocket that is expected next month, officials said. |
| Budget moves through Senate committee
March 27, 2009 at 6:21 pm
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| A tightened version of President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget moved through a key Senate committee Thursday night. |
| 'The Fareed Challenge'
March 27, 2009 at 6:12 pm
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| Without Bush 'millstone,' GOP can mount comeback, leader says
March 27, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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| Despite crushing defeats in the last two elections, Senate Republicans have new "energy and enthusiasm" for winning back the majority, according to their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. |
| Owners drop Freedom Tower name for new WTC skyscraper
March 27, 2009 at 5:13 pm
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| The agency that owns the space where the World Trade Center towers stood is freeing itself of the term "freedom" to describe the signature skyscraper replacing the buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001. |
| iReporter moves into evacuation mode
March 27, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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| Barb and Chuck Matthees are getting out. |
| England crushed in Bridgetown one-dayer
March 27, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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| The West Indies have taken a 2-1 lead in their one-day cricket series against England, crushing the tourists by an impressive eight wickets in Bridgetown, Barbados to leave them needing just one victory from the final two matches to clinch the series. |
| Montgomerie drops back as Siem takes lead
March 27, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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| Colin Montgomerie struggled to stay in touch as German Marcel Siem and England's Graeme Storm turned on the style at the Andalucian Open in Seville on Friday. |
| Bride was a hyperventilating mess
March 27, 2009 at 4:19 pm
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| I was freaking out. I went to bed the night before, freaking out. What was I doing? What was he doing? We were 26, and we were getting married. It was such a bad idea -- clearly we were too young. Everybody knows the true best age for a first marriage is 45. |
| This week in iReport: Fighting the flood
March 27, 2009 at 4:05 pm
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| 'Monsters vs. Aliens' buzz gives boost to 3D revolution
March 27, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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| Editor's note: Watch The Screening Room March show at the following times: Saturday 28 March: 0730, 1800, Sunday 29 March: 0530, 1830, Monday 30 March: 0400 (all times GMT) |
| Afghan soldier kills two coalition troops, U.S. says
March 27, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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| An Afghan soldier reportedly shot and killed two coalition service members in northern Afghanistan on Friday, U.S. forces in Afghanistan said. |
| Rapper T.I. sentenced to year and a day in prison, fined
March 27, 2009 at 1:25 pm
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| Rap star T.I. was sentenced in Atlanta federal court Friday to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,300 fine on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers. |
| Bodies found at Turkish helicopter crash site
March 27, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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| Forty-eight hours after a harrowing distress call from a helicopter crash survivor in the mountains of eastern Turkey, Turkey's interior minister said Friday that rescuers have finally discovered the wreckage. |
| Football First XI: Best former Eastern Bloc players
March 27, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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| The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago and in that time the world game has opened its arms to a tidal wave of talent from behind the former Iron Curtain. |
| Biden meets leaders ahead of G20 summit
March 27, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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| Five days before world leaders meet in England for the G20 Summit, Vice President Joe Biden is attending a two-day conference in Chile that includes seven Latin American and European heads of state. |
| Author: U.S. security no match for Mexican drug cartels
March 27, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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| The Obama administration announced this week it is sending hundreds of federal agents and crime-fighting equipment to the Mexican border to try to make sure violence from Mexican drug cartels doesn't spill over into the U.S. |
| IOC scraps global torch relay for 2012 Games
March 27, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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| The Olympic torch relay for the 2012 London Games will be confined to Britain, organizers confirmed on Friday. |
| Commentary: Fargo's faith cannot be destroyed
March 27, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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| In Fargo, North Dakota, the word "destruction" is being spoken. The reference is to the potential power of the feared floodwaters. |
| Honore: Sandbags won't save your life
March 27, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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| Residents in the flood plains of North Dakota need to flee to high ground because "you cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life," said Lt. Gen. Russel Honore. |
| EPL chief hits out at 'xenophobic' quotas
March 27, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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| Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has slammed plans by FIFA president Slepp Blatter to impose limits on foreign players as "xenophobic rhetoric." |
| Obama: Safety of world at stake in Afghanistan
March 27, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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| President Obama, saying "the terrorists who planned and supported the 9/11 attacks are in Pakistan and Afghanistan," announced a new strategy Friday to confront the growing threat in the two countries. |
| Alaska volcano erupts again
March 27, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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| A series of eruptions from Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano tapered off Friday morning after beginning the night before, scientists said. |
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