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  AP IMPACT: 'Go-arounds' are possible safety hazard AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEWARK, N.J. - A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway.

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  Rush Limbaugh to get $38M a year for next 8 years AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Rush Limbaugh will make about $38 million a year to continue his radio show over the next eight years. In addition, he says will be getting a nine-figure signing bonus from Premiere Radio Networks.

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  Scientists: Watermelon yields Viagra-like effects AP - 59 minutes ago

  LUBBOCK, Texas - A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say has effects similar to Viagra — but don't necessarily expect it to keep the fireworks all night long.

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  Venus, Serena a step away from Wimbledon finals AP - 55 minutes ago

  WIMBLEDON, England - The women's semifinals at Wimbeldon are set for today, with Venus and Serena Williams favored to set up their first all-sibling final since 2003 Wimbledon.

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  Report: Baseball star Alex Rodriguez, wife split AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago

  NEW YORK - Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple's second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

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  U.S. cuts jobs for 6th month Reuters - 10 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut workers from their payrolls for the sixth straight month in June for the country's longest losing streak since 2002, while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent, government data on Thursday showed.

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  Long presidential campaign not yet tiring voters Reuters - Thu Jul 3, 4:46 AM ET

  LONG BEACH, New York (Reuters) - With his wetsuit around his waist, Peter Flintoft walks wearily along the Long Beach boardwalk. While worn out by the surf, he is not yet tired of the lengthy U.S. presidential campaign.

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  Freed U.S. defense contractors arrive in Texas Reuters - Thu Jul 3, 1:23 AM ET

  SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Three American defense contractors landed late on Wednesday in Texas, hours after they were freed from years of captivity in the jungles of Colombia.

• U.S. envoy in Israel plays down plans to attack Iran Reuters - 20 minutes ago

  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Israel was on Thursday quoted as playing down speculation that an attack on Iranian nuclear sites by either country was imminent, saying that the allies agreed force should remain a last resort.

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  Paulson: inflation becoming top global focus Reuters - Thu Jul 3, 4:56 AM ET

  LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday inflation was becoming the top economic focus of many countries around the world as oil and food prices take their toll.

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  Second al Qaeda suspect freed from British jail Reuters - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

  LONDON (Reuters) - An Algerian accused by Britain of links to Osama bin Laden and bomb plots in the United States and France has been freed on bail after more than seven years in prison, a spokeswoman for a British tribunal said on Thursday.

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  Zambia denies President Mwanawasa is dead Reuters - 50 minutes ago

  LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's vice president denied on Thursday media reports that President Levy Mwanawasa had died, saying he was in a stable condition in a Paris hospital.

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  Colombia tricks rebels in bloodless hostage rescue Reuters - Thu Jul 3, 4:17 AM ET

  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian troops tricked rebels into freeing politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans in a bold but bloodless jungle rescue that dealt a severe blow to Latin America's oldest left-wing insurgency.

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  Colombia rescues hostages in daring raid AFP - Thu Jul 3, 5:42 AM ET

  BOGOTA (AFP) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages were rescued from Marxist FARC guerrillas Wednesday by Colombian commandos who posed as rebels and flew them out of the jungle by helicopter.

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  Continental to stand trial for 2000 Concorde crash AFP - 53 minutes ago

  CERGY, France (AFP) - US Continental Airlines and two of its employees are to stand trial for manslaughter over the crash of an Air France Concorde airliner in 2000 that killed 113 people, officials said Thursday.

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  Oil price flies to record high beyond $146 AFP - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - The price of oil set a record high above 146 dollars a barrel here on Thursday owing to falling reserves of US crude, simmering tensions over Iran and a weak dollar, traders said.

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  London police probe 'frenzied' double murder of French students AFP - 11 minutes ago

  LONDON (AFP) - Two French students found stabbed to death in a burning London flat were subjected to a "frenzied, brutal and horrific attack," police said Thursday.

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  Ex-communists won 'fair' Mongolia poll: election watchdog AFP - 59 minutes ago

  ULAN BATOR (AFP) - Mongolia's former communist party won a landslide victory in national polls, the country's electoral watchdog said Thursday as it dismissed vote-rigging claims that triggered deadly riots.

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  UNESCO considering 45 new heritage sites AFP - Thu Jul 3, 12:19 AM ET

  QUEBEC CITY (AFP) - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee began deliberations Wednesday in this oldest of Canadian cities over which of the globe's architectural and natural wonders to add to its list of protected sites.

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  ECB raises eurozone lending rate to 4.25% to choke inflation AFP - 42 minutes ago

  FRANKFURT (AFP) - The European Central Bank (ECB) raised its main interest rate by a quarter of a point to a seven-year high point of 4.25 percent on Thursday to choke record inflation.

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  GOP Envisions Gephardt as Possible Obama Running Mate U.S. News & World Report - Wed Jul 2, 12:56 PM ET

  Republican strategists trying to game Sen. Barack Obama's choice for a running mate are focusing more and more on the possibility that he might pick former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a friend of labor and blue-collar workers. "Gephardt is the one we're most afraid of," said a key GOP strategist and Bush ally.

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  Accidental fungus leads to promising cancer drug Reuters - Sun Jun 29, 6:28 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

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  Denmark world's happiest country, survey finds Reuters - Tue Jul 1, 12:56 AM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Denmark, with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, is the happiest country in the world, researchers said on Monday.