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It could be a rough week for President Bush, with two key White House aides facing the possibility of being indicted in the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name and Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers bracing for more tough questions from senators. Even Vice President Dick Cheney has come under scrutiny, sources familiar with the investigation told the Bloomberg News Service.
The special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, has questioned current and former Bush administration officials about whether Cheney was involved in an effort to discredit the CIA agent's husband, Iraq war critic and former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson, according to the Bloomberg report.
Fitzgerald could decide within days whether to bring charges over the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, were among the possible targets, legal sources said.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/Prominent defense attorney and TV legal pundit Daniel Horowitz found his wife's lifeless body in the entryway of the couple's home - a death that is being investigated as a homicide. Horowitz, who is currently defending a woman accused of murdering her therapist husband, found Pamela Vitale dead Saturday night at the entrance of the mobile home they shared on property where they were building their dream estate, authorities said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9715289/Not since Shoeless Joe Jackson have the Chicago White Sox caused this much of a commotion. World Series, here they come - for the first time since 1959.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9722593/Donning a gold yarmulke and a prayer shawl, 13-year-old Columbo Rudy on Monday marked his entry into the world as an adult. With several of his canine pals present, the toy poodle partied the day away at an outdoor Aventura cafe with a rousing rendition of ''Happy Bark Mitzvah'' and a sampling of doggie bones. Rabbi Terry Bookman, of Temple Beth Am in Pinecrest, said he is all for loving and caring for pets, but a ''bark mitzvah'' is crossing the line.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12868446.htmThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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City elections are wide open in this Oakley, Idaho - there are no candidates. Oakley has two City Council vacancies to fill in November, but no one has filed the papers to be placed on the ballot, and the deadline for write-in candidacy is fast approaching. Mayor Garth Greenwell said he hoped somebody would come forward. If nobody does, the two council seats will remain vacant, and on Jan. 1 Greenwell will work with the rest of the council to appoint someone to fill each vacancy, attorney Steve Tuft said. "Even if there is not enough council members to constitute a quorum, government cannot be shut down," Tuft said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NO_CANDIDATES?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMESee what's happening in this country? Can't even find people to run for office anymore!
-- Carey Fox
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Greece said on Monday it had detected one turkey with bird flu on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, becoming the first EU country where the virus has spread to.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9728684/U.S. warplanes and helicopters bombed two villages near the restive city of Ramadi, killing an estimated 70 militants, the military said Monday, though witnesses said at least 39 of the dead were civilians.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9659209/A halt in heavy rains Monday allowed helicopter relief flights to resume across Pakistan's quake zone, but fresh landslides hampered efforts to move supplies by road. Officials estimated the death toll could now be more than 54,000.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9626146/Tropical Storm Wilma strengthened Monday after forming in the northwestern Caribbean, tying the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic season and following a path that some forecasters believe could menace the Gulf Coast as a hurricane.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9710472/The Supreme Court refused Monday to allow the Bush administration to pursue a $280 billion penalty against tobacco companies on claims they misled the public about the dangers of smoking.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9728668/General Motors Corp. said it reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers that will help the embattled automaker lower its health care costs even as GM reported a whopping $1.6 billion loss for the third quarter.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9727205/Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi prayed at a Tokyo shrine honoring the country's war dead Monday, defying critics who say the visits glorify militarism and risking a further deterioration in relations with China and South Korea.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9722241/Looks like the Church of Scientology is not amused by a Web site spoofing it and Tom Cruise. ScienTOMogy.info has received cease and desist letters from the church, threatening to sue the New Zealand-based Web site for copyright infringement, according to various sources.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9546089/A SriLankan Airlines stewardess called in a bomb threat because she wanted a day off, a newspaper reported Sunday. Investigators traced the call and found that it was made from a mobile phone belonging to the stewardess' boyfriend, Colombo's Sunday Times weekly reported. "The inquiry reveals that the stewardess had given the false alarm because she did not want to fly that day," it said.
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