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Finishing Touches?Date: October 26, 2005 1:23:51 PM EDT
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Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald met Wednesday with the grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity, putting the finishing touches on a two-year criminal probe that has ensnared two senior White House aides.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9824067/The prosecutor in the CIA leak case was preparing to outline possible charges before the federal grand jury as early as today, even as the FBI conducted last-minute interviews in the high-profile investigation, according to people familiar with the case.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102502037.htmlOnly one in 10 Americans said they believe Bush administration officials did nothing illegal or unethical in connection with the leaking of a CIA operative's identity, according to a national poll released Tuesday. Thirty-nine percent said some administration officials acted illegally in the matter, in which the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was revealed. The same percentage of respondents in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll said administration officials acted unethically, but did nothing illegal. But congressional Democrats - while favored when it comes to the economy, the war in Iraq and even taxes - have problems, too. They get a rating only somewhat less negative than the GOP.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10-25-poll_x.htmCountdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
After 31 months of fighting in Iraq, more than half of all American fatalities are now being caused by powerful roadside bombs that blast fiery, lethal shrapnel into the cabins of armored vehicles, confronting every patrol with an unseen, menacing adversary that is accelerating the U.S. death toll.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9819445/A woman was arrested for allegedly pushing her toddler son in front of a moving trolley, police said. Witnesses told police that the woman led the 2-year-old boy by the hand onto the tracks and then pushed him into the trolley's path around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a police report. The trolley driver stopped before hitting the child and a trolley security officer pulled the boy off the tracks, the report said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/12999650.htmThe White House is not amused by The Onion, a newspaper that often spoofs the Bush administration, and has asked it to stop using the presidential seal on its Web site. The seal was still on the Web site www.theonion.com <
http://www.theonion.com/> on Tuesday at the spot where President Bush's weekly radio address is parodied.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9819268/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/24onion.htmlThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/Finally,
An Austrian man who claimed he was Superman and could fly was hospitalized early Tuesday after leaping from a fourth-floor window, authorities said. Paramedics rushed the 23-year-old man to a hospital in the city of Graz, about 120 miles south of Vienna, after he jumped from a window and suffered head and back injuries, police said. They said the man - who apparently had drunk several bottles of red wine before attempting the jump - appeared at the window ledge at around 4 a.m. and shouted: "I am Superman! Nothing can happen to me!"
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AUSTRIA_SUPERMAN_LEAP?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEKryptonite, red wine, and delusions... pretty much the same thing in this case.
-- Carey Fox
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A Palestinian suicide bomber struck the crowded entrance of a falafel stand at an open air market Wednesday in the northern Israeli town of Hadera, killing five Israelis and wounding 21, police and rescuers said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9825313/With most of South Florida still without electricity Wednesday following Hurricane Wilma, some residents faced the prospect of no power until Nov. 15 as temperatures were predicted to climb again.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9823799/Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers said in a speech more than a decade ago that "self-determination" should guide decisions about abortion and school prayer and that in cases where scientific facts are disputed and religious beliefs vary, "government should not act."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9819457/CBS announced Wednesday it is replacing embattled CBS News President Andrew Heyward with Sean McManus, chief of CBS Sports, who will keep both jobs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9825682/Blum's HR lifts ChiSox to 14-inning win.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9819801/Houston Comets forward Sheryl Swoopes is opening up about being a lesbian, telling a magazine that she's "tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9823452/Linda Froning's cat may have shared one of its nine lives. Froning said she was asleep on a couch last Thursday morning when her cat jumped on her, waking her up to a house full of smoke. Froning said she called her son, Jamie, a Nora Springs volunteer firefighter who works for Mason City. Jamie Froning said he told his mom to get out of the house and then called the fire department. The house was full of smoke when he showed up, he said. "I was standing on the deck, taking care of my mom, when the couch burst into flames," he said.
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