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Tropical Storm Hermine crosses into Texas (AP)

Science - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 06:05

This NOAA GOES National Weather Service satellite image shows tropical storm Hermine. Hermine made landfall in far northeastern Mexico, threatening storm surges and tornadoes in the US-Mexico border area, US forecasters said.(AFP/NOAA-HO)AP - Forecasters say Tropical Storm Hermine (hur-MEEN') has crossed into Texas.


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Conditions for New York, NY at 1:51 am EDT

Weather - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 05:51

Current Conditions:
Fair, 71 F

Forecast:
Tue - Sunny. High: 79 Low: 64
Wed - Mostly Sunny. High: 89 Low: 68

Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather

(provided by The Weather Channel)

Justice department probes Google's ITA Software deal: report (Reuters)

Tech - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 05:39

People walk towards the Google China headquarters in Beijing March 23, 2010. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - The U.S. Justice department is looking into Google Inc's takeover of airline ticketing software firm ITA Software Inc, to determine whether the deal would exert too much influence on the online travel industry, the Wall Street Journal said.


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Google Logo Turns into Animated Particles (Mashable)

Tech - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 05:03
Mashable - We've seen a great number of cool Google logos throughout the years, but today's doodle, available on the U.S. version of Google's search engine, is one of the most intriguing yet.
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Floods threaten hundreds more Australian homes (AFP)

Science - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:53

Cattle are stranded by flood waters on the outskirts of Wangaratta after floods hit the northern Victoria, some 250 kms northeast of Melbourne, on September 6. Wild storms lashed Victoria state over the weekend, triggering landslides, knocking out power supplies and forcing hundreds of people out of their homes, with many rivers yet to reach their peak.(AFP/William West)AFP - Rising flood waters threatened hundreds of Australian homes Tuesday, after scores were inundated by weekend storms which caused millions of dollars of damage, officials said.


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Conditions for New York, NY at 12:51 am EDT

Weather - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:51

Current Conditions:
Fair, 70 F

Forecast:
Tue - Sunny. High: 79 Low: 64
Wed - Mostly Sunny. High: 89 Low: 68

Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather

(provided by The Weather Channel)

"King's Speech" wins early Oscar buzz at Telluride (Reuters)

Entertainment - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:47
Reuters - Has Telluride done it again?
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Comedy scion Jason Ritter on the run in NBC drama (Reuters)

Entertainment - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:45
Reuters - Jason Ritter got his first taste of acting when he was a hyperactive toddler with a predilection for set-crashing.
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Imam behind NYC mosque back in US after Gulf trip (AP)

Top Stories - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:33

00(afp.com)AP - An imam who has become the public face of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero has returned to the United States following a taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East, his wife said Monday.


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Mozambique unrest shows the power of text messaging (AFP)

Tech - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:16

A Mozambiquean sends a text message during violent protests that paralysed Mozambique's capital Maputo on September 2, 2010. A widely circulated text message called on people to strike over rising prices, an indication of the new organisational power, cell phone technology has brought to the people.(AFP/Arthur Frayer)AFP - Deadly protests that paralysed Mozambique's capital last week were spurred by a text message that went viral on Maputo's cell phones, signalling the power of new technology in the hands of the poor.


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New Zealand Earthquake Visualized in Google Earth (Mashable)

Tech - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:08
Mashable - A strong earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand on September 4 was one of the worst to hit New Zealand in 80 years. No deaths have been reported, but the earthquake caused devastation throughout the region of Canterbury.
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QuickBooks 2011 to deliver multi-user functionality to Macs (Macworld.com)

Tech - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 04:01
Macworld.com - Mac users who’ve demanded the ability to have different people working on the same QuickBooks files at once will soon get their wish fulfilled when the next version of QuickBooks arrives for the Mac. Software maker Intuit says that the 2011 version of the accounting and small business management application will add multi-user functionality.
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Conditions for New York, NY at 11:51 pm EDT

Weather - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 03:51

Current Conditions:
Fair, 71 F

Forecast:
Mon - Partly Cloudy. High: 79 Low: 64
Tue - Mostly Sunny. High: 89 Low: 68

Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather

(provided by The Weather Channel)

"Twilight" star settles $300,000 RV lawsuit (omg!)

Entertainment - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 03:08
omg! - Reuters - "Twilight" star Taylor Lautner has settled his lawsuit against a California RV dealership that failed to deliver his $300,000 trailer in time for the shoot of his latest movie.
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Jerry Hall to auction Freud portrait, Warhol (Reuters)

Entertainment - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 03:06
Reuters - U.S. model Jerry Hall is selling several works of art from her private collection, including a portrait by Lucian Freud, as a way of letting go of a past she shared with Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.
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Police arrest man who scaled San Francisco tower (AP)

Top Stories - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 03:02
AP - San Francisco police have arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper and unfurled an American flag at the top.
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Conditions for New York, NY at 10:51 pm EDT

Weather - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 02:51

Current Conditions:
Fair, 71 F

Forecast:
Mon - Partly Cloudy. High: 79 Low: 64
Tue - Mostly Sunny. High: 89 Low: 68

Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather

(provided by The Weather Channel)

Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides (AP)

Top Stories - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 02:47

Rescue workers look for survivors at a mudslide area in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. At least 38 people were killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in different areas of the country, injuring 20 others and leaving over 60 people missing. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)AP - Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.


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Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

Top Stories - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 02:14

President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.


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