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After rain-out, Obama to deliver speech back home - Yahoo! News

Obama had mounted the podium to give the address when rain, thunder, lightning and high winds began. Under the cover of a large umbrella, he told thousands gathered before him that "a little bit of rain doesn't hurt anybody, but we don't want anybody being struck by lightning."

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Henin loses to Stosur, who gets SWilliams next - Yahoo! News

Turns out Henin was right. Betrayed down the stretch by her best stroke, the backhand, and by her usually steely nerves, the four-time French Open champion lost to No. 7-seeded Sam Stosur of Australia 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the fourth round Monday, ending Henin's 24-match winning streak at her favorite tournament.

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Temptations singer Ali-Ollie Woodson dies at 58 - Yahoo! News

DETROIT – Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s and helped restore them to their hit-making glory with songs including "Treat Her Like A Lady," has died, a friend said. He was 58.

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Senator wants disclosure on outsourced calls - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Reuters) – In a bid to reduce outsourcing of U.S. jobs, a Democratic senator said on Sunday he will push legislation to make companies inform customers when their calls were being transferred outside the United States and charge companies for those transferred calls.

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Police find head believed to be slain S. Calif man - Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – Authorities searching a Long Beach park found the final missing body part — a severed head — believed to belong to a college student killed and dismembered in a double murder-for-profit plot in Orange County, police said Sunday.

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After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger - Yahoo! News

BOOTHVILLE, La. – There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. After trying and trying again, one of the world's largest corporations, backed and pushed by the world's most powerful government, can't stop the runaway gusher.

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CBC News - Canada - RCMP computer report 'designed to hide,' MP says

The RCMP says it has figured out what went wrong when it bought two different computer systems that can't communicate with each other, but a Liberal MP from British Columbia says the Mounties' newly released report reads as gobbledegook.

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Britain's Great Train Robber Biggs in hospital - Yahoo! News

Biggs, who was released from custody last August, lives in a care home in Barnet. A series of strokes has left Biggs bedridden and unable to speak, eat unaided or walk. He was in hospital with pneumonia when he was freed.

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WH had Clinton try to ease Sestak out of Pa. race - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Forced to disclose backstage political bargaining, President Barack Obama's embarrassed White House acknowledged on Friday that it enlisted Bill Clinton to try to ease Rep. Joe Sestak out of Pennsylvania's Senate primary with a job offer.

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Film captures mood swings of bipolar disorder - Yahoo! News

Instead of sticking to his original 250,000-pound ($365,000) scheme of picking his perfect wife from the glamorous candidates he had flown to the island, Downes, 50, found himself in the grip of a manic episode, proclaiming himself not only the creator of mankind but the creator of God.

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