| Cuba hopes for more Volleyball gold - 58 sec
The Cuban women's volleyball team is hoping for more gold in Beijing.
The Cubans won gold medals at Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and bronze in Athens 2004.
Deborah Lutterbeck
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| Phelps versus Spitz - 117 sec
US Swimmer Michael Phelps has shot at breaking Mark Spitz's record for most gold medals won by an American in a single Olympics. Mark Spitz who won seven gold medals at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. Michael Phelps has won six Olympic gold medals.
Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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| Karadzic faces Hague tribunal - 114 sec
Jul 22 - On the run for 11 years, former wartime president of the Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic faces two indictments by the war crimes tribunal.Karadzic faces charges for the deaths of unarmed civilians during the siege of Sarajevo and for his role in the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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| Oil shrugs off threat from Dolly - 114 sec
Jul 22 - Dolly was upgraded to a hurricane from a tropical storm but oil prices still fell due to small risk of disruption to Gulf operations.The Dow surged 135 points to 11,602.
The S&P 500 gained 17 points to 1,277.
The Nasdaq rallied 24 points to 2,303.
Crude oil lost more than $3 to settle at $127.95 a barrel.
Conway Gittens reports from New York.
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| Paulson talks up mortgage plan - 111 sec
Jul 22- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is working to build support for his plan to help Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The plan could cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion according to the Congressional Budget Office. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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| Obama and McCain clash over Iraq - 139 sec
Jul 15 - With Barack Obama planning a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, the presumptive Democratic nominee laid out his vision for Iraq's future.Obama laid out his strategy for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-- prior to talking to U.S. commanders in the region and before visiting Afghanistan for the first time.
Jon Decker reports from Washington.
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| Sprinter's smile says Olympic gold - 78 sec
Jul 15 - In Curacao, there is gold in Sprinter Churandy Martina's smile: He is hoping for the same from the Olympics. While he has been training in Texas, he will represent Netherlands Antilles -- which Curacao is a part of -- at the summer Olympics.Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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| Economy worries rock Wall St. - 116 sec
Jul 15 - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. economy is facing "significant downside risks", which was not received well on Wall Street. The Dow dropped 92 points to 10,962. The S&P 500 lost 13 points to 1,214. The Nasdaq rallied 2 points to 2,215.
Crude oil had its biggest one-day dollar drop in 17 years.
Conway Gittens reports.
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| GM sets new revival plan - 102 sec
Jul 15 - General Motors announced plans to cut $10 billion in costs and repair its balance sheet as the worst sales slump in a decade threatened its future.The beleaguered automaker plans to slash thousands of white-collar jobs, cut its dividend, seek new financing, and sell some of its assets in an attempt to prevent a slide into bankruptcy.Conway Gittens reports
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| Cycling for Gold - 69 sec
Jul 14 - Cuba's Gonzalez hopes she can match her 2004 World Cycling Gold at Beijing Olympics.Gonzalez is one of the most consistent cyclists in the region and one of Latin America's best hopes to clinch an Olympic medal.Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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| This Bud's for InBev - 110 sec
Jul 14 - A month after its first official bid, InBev finally signs a deal to take over Budweiser parent Anheuser-Busch. After 150 years as a family business, Anheuser-Busch agrees to a $52 billion dollar takeover bid from Belgium's InBev. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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| Bank worries offset Fannie rescue - 117 sec
Jul. 14 - A highly-anticipated government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was downplayed as the third biggest bank collapse in U.S. history added to fears.The Dow dropped 45 points to 11,055. The S&P 500 lost 11 points to 1,228. The Nasdaq fell 26 points to 2,212.
Conway Gittens reports.
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| Tanker bids reopened; US stocks slump - 123 sec
Jul 9 - The Pentagon reopened bidding on an aerial refueling tanker; stocks continue recent slide. The Pentagon will hold a new competition for the $35 billion dollar aerial refueling tanker contract. Meanwhile the markets extended their downward spiral, pushing the S&P into bear market territory. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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| New bids for US tankers - 130 sec
Jul 9 - The Defense Department said it's reopening bids for a $35 billion contract for aerial refueling tankers. The move comes one month after a Congressional watchdog upheld Boeing's protest that Northrop Grumman and Europe's EADS had unfairly been awarded the contract. Fred Katayama reports from New York.
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| Panda party - 40 sec
Jul 9 - Tai Shan, the first surviving panda cub of the Washington Zoo celebrates turning three years old with a huge crowd.A new year is a milestone for the panda, one of 25 cubs born in captivity in 2005. Katharine Jackson reports.
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| Ecuador goes for gold again - 98 sec
Jul 9 - Olympic gold winning walker Jefferson Perez is Ecuador's best hope of clinching gold in Beijing.
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| Hunting down Doctor Death - 85 sec
Jul 9 - Nazi hunters search for a war criminal in southern Chile.He is said to have kept the skull of a man he decapitated as a paperweight, timed his lethal injections with a stopwatch, and relished the look of fear in his victims' eyes.Katharine Jackson reports.
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| Greenhouse gassy cows - 64 sec
Jul 8 - Argentine scientists pioneer research aimed at reducing contaminant gases being emitted from its cows.The study is being conducted by Argentina's National Institute of Agrarian Technology.
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| Thousands flee California fire - 44 sec
Jul 8 - Residents in California's Butte County had just returned to their homes a few days ago when they were told to leave again.Triple digit temperatures, smoke, and low humidity made the battle tough for firefighters. Fred Katayama reports.
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| How private is YouTube? - 122 sec
Jul 7 - Following a ruling ordering YouTube to turn over user data to Viacom, privacy concerns mount.YouTube must turn over information about its users as part of a lawsuit from Viacom. The move has outraged electronic privacy advocates. Bobbi Rebell reports.
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