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Thousands flee China quake area over flood fears
(AP)
 AP - Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of potential floods from a river blocked by landslides.
Sat, 17 May 2008 10:41:07 GMT
| Bush pivots to Arab side of Mideast peace dispute
(AP)
 AP - President Bush pivoted to the Arab side of the Mideast peace dispute on Saturday, but he may well get a less glowing reception than he did in Israel earlier this week.
Sat, 17 May 2008 10:19:26 GMT
| French navy ship near Myanmar with aid
(AP)
 AP - A French navy ship carrying 1,000 tons of food idled near Myanmar's coast Saturday, awaiting permission from the uncooperative ruling military regime to dock in the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta.
Sat, 17 May 2008 09:39:55 GMT
| Brazil's illegal logging hard to combat
(AP)
 AP - Acrid smoke from charcoal-making blankets this Amazon logging town with the smell of business as usual. Less than three months ago, federal agents swooped in to close sawmills, confiscate wood and smash charcoal furnaces in a government crackdown on illegal logging.
Sat, 17 May 2008 09:56:44 GMT
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Lakers reach West finals, hold off Jazz (AP)
Kobe Bryant has some time to rest his back. Not that he appears to need it. Bryant scored 34 points, 12 in the fourth quarter, and Los Angeles held off a furious rally by the Utah Jazz for a 108-105 victory Friday night in Game 6, putting the Lakers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in four years.
Fri, 16 May 2008 23:59:30 PDT
| Cavs ride James, force Game 7 at Boston (AP)
The Boston Celtics are going home for another Game 7. They handled the Atlanta Hawks. LeBron James may not be as easy. James scored 32 points -- 19 in the second half -- and the Cavaliers forced a decisive and fitting finale to this home-sweet-home playoff series with a 74-69 victory Friday night over the Celtics, who have gone from regular-season road kings to postseason road kill.
Fri, 16 May 2008 21:27:31 PDT
| Pats coach Belichick lashes out at Walsh (AP)
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick lashed out at the team's former video assistant Friday, saying in a televised interview that Matt Walsh was a low-level staffer who was fired for "poor job performance" "There's not a lot of credibility," Belichick said in an interview broadcast on "CBS Evening News." "You know, he's tried to make it seem like we're buddies, and belong to the same book...
Fri, 16 May 2008 15:49:13 PDT
| Magowan stepping down from Giants (AP)
Peter Magowan, the owner who brought Barry Bonds to San Francisco, built a new ballpark and kept major league baseball in the city, is stepping down as managing partner of the Giants. The 66-year-old Magowan will retire from his duties at the end of the season on Oct. 1 but maintain an ownership stake, the team said Friday.
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:00:22 PDT
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Morgan Stanley cut 1,500 jobs this week: source
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Morgan Stanley cut 1,500 jobs
this week across its investment banking, trading and asset
management businesses, a person familiar with the situation
said Friday, a 5 percent reduction of non-broker employees.
Fri, 16 May 2008 22:47:04 GMT
| Wall St ends flat as energy gains offset sentiment
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Stocks finished little changed on
Friday as surging oil prices lifted energy shares and offset
data that showed consumer confidence sank to its lowest in 28
years.
Fri, 16 May 2008 20:49:15 GMT
| Consumers' mood as grim as early-80s
(Reuters)
 Reuters - U.S. consumer confidence tumbled to a
28-year low this month as rising prices strained household
finances, while another drop in single-family housing starts
underscored problems still plaguing the economy.
Fri, 16 May 2008 20:59:31 GMT
| American Axle and UAW reach tentative agreement
(Reuters)
Reuters - The United Auto Workers and American
Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc reached a tentative
contract agreement late Friday aimed at ending an 11-week-long
strike that had triggered thousands of layoffs and cost General
Motors Corp at least $1 billion.
Sat, 17 May 2008 06:07:25 GMT
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Late Senator figures in 2008 presidential furor
(AP)
 AP - Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah.
Sat, 17 May 2008 10:45:10 GMT
| Bush turns attention to Arabs
(AP)
AP - President Bush pivoted to the Arab side of the Mideast peace dispute on Saturday, but he may well get a less glowing reception than he did in Israel earlier this week.
Sat, 17 May 2008 09:02:24 GMT
| Michael Moore sees danger in "Fahrenheit" follow-up
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Oscar-winning documentary maker
Michael Moore, who this week unveiled plans for a follow-up to
his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11," said on Friday the new
film would cover topics so "toxic" he probably should not make
it.
Fri, 16 May 2008 21:59:38 GMT
| Thousands flee China quake area over flood fears
(AP)
AP - Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims fled areas near the epicenter Saturday, fearful of potential floods from a river blocked by landslides.
Sat, 17 May 2008 10:41:07 GMT
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