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Rumsfeld defends aide from Franks attack

AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer - 4 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 8 ▪ Similar Stories: 6
US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Join Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers during briefing
Reuters/ MANNIE GARCIA
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday defended a top aide who was severely criticized by Gen. Tommy Franks, the top U.S. commander in the Iraq war.In an interview...

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Prosecutors say England was a willing participant in Iraq prisoner abuse
940 News - 5 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 1932 ▪ Similar Stories: 12
U.S. soldier Lynndie England with her mother and attorneys outside military hearing at Fort Bragg
Reuters/ STRINGER/USA, STR
at 17:05 on August 3, 2004, EST. ALLEN BREED U.S. Army Pte. 1st Class Lynndie England walks to a hearing in military court. (AP /Chuck Burton) FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors portrayed...
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Preliminary Guantanamo Hearings Planned
AP via Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 933 ▪ Similar Stories: 4
Group living cells displayed at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay Cuba
Reuters/ JOE SKIPPER
By IAN JAMES Associated Press Writer GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Preliminary hearings are planned late this month for the first four terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay...
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Pilot in ferry crash expected to plead guilty
New York Daily News - 4 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 744 ▪ Similar Stories: 14
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEINTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS The pilot of the Staten Island ferry that crashed last year and killed 11 people is expected to plead guilty Wednesday hours before prosecutors...
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Update 3: Halliburton to Pay $7.5M to Settle Probe
Forbes - 3 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 783 ▪ Similar Stories: 11
File photo of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in Washington
Reuters/ LARRY DOWNING
Besides the company's fine, former Halliburton controller, Robert C. Muchmore, Jr., will pay a $50,000 penalty, the SEC announced Tuesday. Also Tuesday, Halliburton disclosed that the...
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Source: Bristol-Myers likely to pay $75M
AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer - 2 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 731 ▪ Similar Stories: 8
WASHINGTON -- Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. likely will pay about $75 million to settle federal regulators' charges that it improperly manipulated its inventory of drugs to...
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WestJet President Apologizes for Remarks
AP via Newsday - 4 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 732 ▪ Similar Stories: 7
By Associated Press August 3, 2004, 6:24 PM EDT CALGARY, Alberta -- WestJet Airlines president Clive Beddoe apologized to staff and shareholders Tuesday over allegations of corporate...
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Tom Cruise plays against type
MSNBC - 27 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 3 ▪ Similar Stories: 29
Actor Cruise greets fans at premiere of thriller Collateral
Reuters/ FRED PROUSER
LOS ANGELES - It had to happen. Tom Cruise has fallen out of Hollywood's good graces and joined the ranks of the industry's unsavory characters.Cruise has transformed from hitmaker to...
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Jackson's lawyers angry at prosecutor
MSNBC - 28 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 26 ▪ Similar Stories: 5
Prosecution team in the Michael Jackson child molestation case arrive at the courthouse in Santa Maria
Reuters/ POOL
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Michael Jackson took a jab Monday at the man seeking to jail him for child molestation, suggesting in court papers that prosecutor Tom Sneddon had violated a "gag"...
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Al Franken radio show coming to cable TV
MSNBC - 32 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 35 ▪ Similar Stories: 28
NEW YORK - Satirist-commentator Al Franken will return to his TV roots next month when his radio show begins appearing on cable's Sundance Channel.The "Franken" TV hour is currently...
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AOL opens messaging to enterprise developers
CNET News.com - 6 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 14 ▪ Similar Stories: 2
America Online on Tuesday said it will allow two new companies to develop enterprise software applications using its popular AOL Instant Messenger service.The online giant said FaceTime...
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Ohio to track prisoners with RFID
ZDNet - 32 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 29 ▪ Similar Stories: 3
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has approved a $415,000 contract to try out the tracking technology with Alanco Technologies. The Ross Correctional Facility in...
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Sun chips away at wireless chip connections
CNET News.com - 26 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 4 ▪ Similar Stories: 2
It will take a lot of work, but Sun Microsystems says it is making headway on a technology that will allow chips to communicate without circuit boards or wires. The technology, called...
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Murder Of The Bride
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Lawyer: S&M Photos, Not Nick Carter, Caused Paris' Bruises
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Sun chips away at wireless chip connections
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Universal theme park loses puppy left at kennel
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Nancy Reagan supports Bush
CNN - 4 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 118 ▪ Similar Stories: 8
Ron Reagan speaks at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston
Reuters/ GARY HERSHORN
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Former first lady Nancy Reagan, who opposes President Bush's policy on limiting embryonic stem cell research, is backing the Republican's re-election...
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Yankees Sign Olerud for Insurance at First
AP via Daily Press - 4 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 793 ▪ Similar Stories: 2
By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer Published August 3, 2004, 7:32 PM EDT NEW YORK -- Recently released John Olerud signed with the New York Yankees on Tuesday, giving the team insurance at...
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No consensus builds as Illinois GOP meets to pick U.S. Senate candidate
San Francisco Chronicle - 10 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 36 ▪ Similar Stories: 2
Senate candidate and keynote speaker Obama addresses Democratic National Convention
Reuters/ MIKE SEGAR
(08-03) 10:56 PDT CHICAGO (AP) -- With just over three weeks to the ballot deadline, Illinois Republican leaders met in Chicago Tuesday to interview potential U.S. Senate candidates and...
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Bryant judge to release closed-door transcripts
MSNBC - 24 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 34 ▪ Similar Stories: 37
FILE PHOTO OF KOBE BRYANT LEAVING COURTROOM DURING PRETRIAL HEARING IN COLORADO
Reuters/ POOL
EAGLE, Colo. - The judge in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case reluctantly decided Monday to release edited transcripts from a closed-door hearing on the accuser's sex life and other...
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Former Mets broadcaster Murphy dies
MSNBC - 5 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 727 ▪ Similar Stories: 3
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Murphy, who covered the New York Mets from the team's inception in 1962 until his retirement after last season, died Tuesday. He was...
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Jays' Lilly wins for first time in month
MSNBC - 31 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 733 ▪ Similar Stories: 20
Blue Jays Chris Gomez throws to first next to sliding Cleveland Indians Jody Gerut
Reuters/ ANDREW WALLACE
TORONTO - All-Star Ted Lilly won for the first time in more than a month and Vernon Wells homered before leaving with a calf injury as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Indians 6-1...
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Apple's Jobs Has Cancer Surgery
MSNBC - 2 days ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 171 ▪ Similar Stories: 152
file photo of Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs
Reuters/ KIMBERLY WHITE
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Steve Jobs, the charismatic chief executive of Apple Computer Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios, said Sunday he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas...
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Astronauts begin 6-hour spacewalk
MSNBC - 14 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 12 ▪ Similar Stories: 12
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke begin a six-hour spacewalk to install docking equipment to the International Space Station
Reuters/ HO
MOSCOW - Two astronauts began a spacewalk on Tuesday that aims to pave the way for the European Space Agency to send its first cargo craft to the International Space Station (ISS), Russian...
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Modern medicine turns to maggots
Chicago Sun-Times - 17 hours ago ▪ Popularity Rank: 28 ▪ Similar Stories: 12
BY LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON -- Think of these wriggly little creatures not as gross, but as miniature surgeons: Maggots are making a medical comeback, cleaning out wounds that just won't...
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