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Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92

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NEW YORK - Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.

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  1. Walter Cronkite speaks at Arizona State University Nov. 1, 2005. Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called 'the most trusted man in America,' died Friday July 17, 2009. He was 92. (AP Photo/Arizona State University by Scott Troyanos.)
    Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92 AP - 31 minutes agoSent 953 times

    NEW YORK - Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.

  2. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire and the first open, partnered gay person to serve as a diocesan bishop in the church, speaks in the House of Bishops at the 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Anaheim, Calif., Monday, July 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
    Episcopalians: Bishops can bless same-sex unions AP - Fri Jul 17, 6:07 PM ETSent 648 times

    ANAHEIM, Calif. - Episcopalians on Friday authorized bishops to bless same-sex unions and research an official prayer for the ceremonies, capping a meeting that moved the church closer to accepting gay relationships despite turmoil over the issue in the Anglican family.

  3. An Oscar Meyer Wienermobile crashed into the home and outdoor deck of Nick Krupp in Racine, Wis. on Friday morning, July 17, 2009. According to a witness, the vehicle was parked in the driveway. The driver lurched the vehicle forward instead of backing out of the driveway, hitting Krupp's deck and cracking the foundation of his house. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Tom McCauley)
    Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashes into Wis. home AP - Fri Jul 17, 9:01 PM ETSent 481 times

    MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. - One southern Wisconsin homeowner is probably not in love with the Oscar Mayer wiener. The famed hot dog's Wienermobile crashed Friday into the deck and garage of a home in Mount Pleasant, about 35 miles south of Milwaukee.

  4. FILE - In this file photo taken April 28, 2009, Scott Mason grimaces as he gets ready to go to the hospital in Pinkham Notch, N.H.  New Hampshire plans to fine the Massachusetts teenager for the cost of rescuing him from Mount Washington in April. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
    Teen fined $25,000 for cost of NH mountain rescue AP - Fri Jul 17, 5:27 PM ETSent 307 times

    CONCORD, N.H. - A Massachusetts teenager who spent three nights alone on Mount Washington in April after he sprained an ankle and veered off marked trails has been fined more than $25,000 for the cost of his rescue.

  5. 'And that's the way it is': The best of Walter Cronkite The Yahoo! Newsroom - Fri Jul 17, 10:08 PM ETSent 158 times

    "And that's the way it is ... " That's how longtime CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite ended each nightly newscast. But his signature sign-off almost didn't come to be; in a 1998 interview, Cronkite revealed how the first night he used it, he got in trouble with the president of CBS:

  6. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin speaks during a book signing Friday, July 17, 2009 in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Kohl)
    NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it AP - Thu Jul 16, 8:26 PM ETSent 97 times

    WASHINGTON - NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.

  7. Graphic shows state-by-state breakdown of unemployment rates
    Jobless rate tops 10 percent in 15 states, DC AP - Fri Jul 17, 7:59 PM ETSent 87 times

    WASHINGTON - Fifteen states have crossed a painful threshold: 10 percent unemployment. More states, and the nation, likely will follow, one of the biggest dangers to an economic recovery.

  8. Administrative Assistant to the Otisfield Board of Selectmen, Marianne Izzo-Morin, left, and Otisfield Town Clerk, Treasurer and tax collector, Sharon Matthews, pose Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in front of the public mailbox outside of the town hall in Otisfield, Maine.  The U.S. Postal Service has proposed removing the box, which is the town's only public mailbox, in the name of efficiency and cost-effectiviness. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
    Maine town fights phase-out of curbside mailbox AP - Fri Jul 17, 5:14 PM ETSent 81 times

    OTISFIELD, Maine - The folks of Otisfield are so fond of their lone public mailbox that they blocked it with a snowplow and a backhoe to prevent the Postal Service from taking it away in the gloom of night. Town officials also threatened to chain themselves to the blue box if necessary.

  9. Treatment for Hair-Pulling Shows Success Time.com - Fri Jul 17, 1:20 PM ETSent 69 times

    A small new study offers some hope that an antioxidant supplement could prove helpful for some people with the rare hair-pulling disorder known as trichotillomania

  10. Illustration of the late Walter Cronkite in various sizes
    Cronkite: Peerless anchor when TV news came of age AP - 1 hour, 54 minutes agoSent 69 times

    NEW YORK - Walter Cronkite didn't just live the life of an anchorman. He invented and embodied it.

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  1. News legend Walter Cronkite and wife pose backstage during the 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2003. Cronkite, dubbed "the most trusted man in America" for his calm and honest delivery during a tumultuous period in US history, died Friday in New York at the age of 92, said the CBS network, where he spent most of his career.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Carlo Allegri)
    Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92 AP - 31 minutes ago

    NEW YORK - Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.

  2. In this photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a female supporter of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi flashes a victory sign as she wears a green head scarf, a symbolic color of Mousavi's supporters, while she holds a poster of a leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, during a Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 17, 2009. Tens of thousands of government opponents packed Iran's main Islamic prayer service Friday, chanting 'freedom, freedom' and other slogans as their top clerical backer Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered a sermon bluntly criticizing the country's leadership over the crackdown on election protests.  (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENT
    Powerful Iranian cleric says country in crisis AP - 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - In a sign of endurance for Iran's protest movement, demonstrators clashed with police Friday as one of the nation's most powerful clerics challenged the supreme leader during Muslim prayers, saying country was in crisis in the wake of a disputed election.

  3. Maine town fights phase-out of curbside mailbox AP - Fri Jul 17, 5:14 PM ET

    OTISFIELD, Maine - The folks of Otisfield are so fond of their lone public mailbox that they blocked it with a snowplow and a backhoe to prevent the Postal Service from taking it away in the gloom of night. Town officials also threatened to chain themselves to the blue box if necessary.

  4. Teen fined $25,000 for cost of NH mountain rescue AP - Fri Jul 17, 5:27 PM ET

    CONCORD, N.H. - A Massachusetts teenager who spent three nights alone on Mount Washington in April after he sprained an ankle and veered off marked trails has been fined more than $25,000 for the cost of his rescue.

  5. Adam Lambert Has a Secret(E! Online)
    Adam Lambert Has a Secret E! Online - Fri Jul 17, 6:35 PM ET

    Los Angeles (E! Online) - What got Adam Lambert talking about funky panties, Kris Allen gabbing about digestion problems and Megan Joy and Anoop Desai saying, "no way"? Your questions, that's what.

  6. Undated file photo shows renowned US television anchor and reporter Walter Cronkite filing a report. Cronkite, dubbed "the most trusted man in America" for his calm and honest delivery during a tumultuous period in US history, died Friday in New York at the age of 92, said the CBS network, where he spent most of his career.(AFP/HO/File)
    Legendary TV news anchor Walter Cronkite dies Reuters - Fri Jul 17, 10:15 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, whose authoritative delivery of news events from the John F. Kennedy assassination to the Apollo moon landing and Vietnam War, made him "the most trusted man in America," died on Friday at age 92.

  7. Indonesian maids collect their employers' luggages from Ritz Carlton hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, July 17, 2009. Explosions ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta Friday ending a four-year lull in terror attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation.(AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)
    Administration: Jakarta bombing reminder of threat AP - Fri Jul 17, 9:32 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Friday said a pair of suicide bombings in luxury American hotels in the Indonesian capital were proof of the need to remain vigilant against terror groups. But officials said they do not see the attacks as a sign that violent extremism is on the rise again in Indonesia.

  8. Friends and family of Melanie Billings carry her coffin from Liberty Church in Pensacola, Fla. to a waiting hearse after she and her husband Byrd's funerals on Friday July 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Mari Darr~Welch)
    As slain couple is buried, fuller portrait emerges AP - Fri Jul 17, 10:47 PM ET

    PENSACOLA, Fla. - He was a 66-year-old entrepreneur who dabbled in used cars, boats and the adult entertainment industry before finally hitting it big. She was a 43-year-old country music lover who fed the homeless and was devoted to her MySpace page.

  9. This 1969 NASA photo shows astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. removing a scientific experiment from the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Man's first trip to the moon is about to blast off anew in an online recreation intended to enthrall an Internet generation not yet born when the US mission made history 40 years ago.(AFP/HO/File)
    New NASA photos show Apollo leftovers on the moon AP - Fri Jul 17, 9:30 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - New NASA photos of the moon show the leftovers from man's exploration 40 years ago. For the first time, photos from space pinpoint equipment left behind from Apollo landings, and even the well-worn tracks made by astronauts on the moon surface. The images are from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was launched last month and now circles the moon in search of future landing sites.

  10. 'And that's the way it is': The best of Walter Cronkite The Yahoo! Newsroom - Fri Jul 17, 10:08 PM ET

    "And that's the way it is ... " That's how longtime CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite ended each nightly newscast. But his signature sign-off almost didn't come to be; in a 1998 interview, Cronkite revealed how the first night he used it, he got in trouble with the president of CBS:

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  1. Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashes into Wis. home AP - Fri Jul 17, 9:01 PM ET

    MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. - One southern Wisconsin homeowner is probably not in love with the Oscar Mayer wiener. The famed hot dog's Wienermobile crashed Friday into the deck and garage of a home in Mount Pleasant, about 35 miles south of Milwaukee.

  2. President Barack Obama speaks about health care, Friday, July 17, 2009, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
    Obama to Congress: Don't lose heart on health care AP - 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, worried about growing resistance to his health care plan, exhorted Congress not to "lose heart" Friday and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans.

  3. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin signs his book, Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home From the Moon, during a book signing Friday, July 17, 2009 in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Kohl)
    New NASA photos show Apollo leftovers on the moon AP - Fri Jul 17, 9:30 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - New NASA photos of the moon show the leftovers from man's exploration 40 years ago. For the first time, photos from space pinpoint equipment left behind from Apollo landings, and even the well-worn tracks made by astronauts on the moon surface. The images are from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was launched last month and now circles the moon in search of future landing sites.

  4. An undated photo provided by the Nashville Police Department shows Adrian Gilliam, 33, of LaVergne, Tenn. Gilliamwas arrested by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for allegedly providing the gun later used to kill ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair. (AP Photo/ via Nashville Police Department) .
    Feds arrest felon in sale of gun in McNair killing AP - Fri Jul 17, 8:02 PM ET

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair's mistress bought the gun she used to kill him from a convicted murderer whose fiancee was afraid to have it in the house, authorities said Friday.

  5. Walter Cronkite (C with microphone) interviews a US officer during the battle for the Vietnamese city of Hue in 1968. Cronkite, dubbed "the most trusted man in America" for his calm and honest delivery during a tumultuous period in US history, died Friday in New York at the age of 92, said the CBS network, where he spent most of his career.AFP PHOTO/NATIONAL ARCHIVES(AFP/National Archives/File)
    Legendary TV news anchor Walter Cronkite dies Reuters - Fri Jul 17, 10:15 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, whose authoritative delivery of news events from the John F. Kennedy assassination to the Apollo moon landing and Vietnam War, made him "the most trusted man in America," died on Friday at age 92.

  6. Employees of AhnLab Inc. work at Security Operation Center in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 10, 2009. South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers that the cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea were carried out by using 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, amid suspicions North Korea is behind the effort. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
    SKorean police: Hackers extracted data in attacks AP - Tue Jul 14, 9:34 AM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - Hackers extracted files from computers they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police said Tuesday, a sign that they tried to steal information from the victims.

  7. The White House has launched a fierce defense of its massive economic stimulus plan which has faced mounting Republican criticism, including from Republican Whip Eric Cantor seen here, as the unemployment rate shoots up.(AFP/Getty Images/Alex Wong)
    Jobless rate tops 10 percent in 15 states, DC AP - Fri Jul 17, 7:59 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Fifteen states have crossed a painful threshold: 10 percent unemployment. More states, and the nation, likely will follow, one of the biggest dangers to an economic recovery.

  8. Walter Cronkite: Definitional Journalist Saw Big Media's Flaws The Nation - Fri Jul 17, 7:26 PM ET

    The Nation -- Walter Cronkite never stopped being a journalist.

  9. US TV news legend Walter Cronkite, dubbed "the most trusted man in America" for his calm and honest delivery during a tumultuous period in US history, died Friday in New York at the age of 92, said the CBS network, where he spent most of his career.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brad Barket)
    Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92 AP - 31 minutes ago

    NEW YORK - Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," died Friday. He was 92.

  10. FILE - In this April 21, 2009 file photo, actress Mischa Barton arrives at a central London hotel for the launch of a new handbag collection. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)
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