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Even as President Bush reiterated that Americans "don't need to worry about security," Senate Democrats on Thursday raised concerns about a sale whereby a company owned by the United Arab Emirates would operate six major ports. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said lawmakers should have been made aware of the proposed transaction long ago, given how many "red flags" existed around security concerns. The transaction was the focus of a hearing Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Its chairman, Sen. John Warner, R-Va., has expressed support for the agreement, describing the UAE as an important ally against terrorism.
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South Dakota moved closer to imposing some of the strictest limits on abortion in the nation as the state Senate approved legislation that would ban the procedure except when the woman's life is in danger. The bill, designed to spark a courtroom showdown over the legality of abortion, passed 23-12 Wednesday. On Thursday, it was headed back to the House, where lawmakers already approved similar legislation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022300204.htmlMore than 130 people, including dozens who joined a demonstration against sectarian violence, were killed in bloodshed across Iraq despite calls for calm on Thursday from leaders, including President Bush, fearful of civil war.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11491483/Prime Minister Tony Blair sprung to the defense of Prince Charles on Thursday, saying he was perfectly entitled to express his views and had never taken sides in party politics. Charles was plunged into a constitutional row this week when legal action he took to defend his privacy spectacularly backfired. Instead of gagging a newspaper that printed extracts from his diaries, Charles had to suffer the embarrassment of seeing a former aide telling the High Court of his propensity to dispense political advice to all and sundry.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-02-23T132525Z_01_L23760615_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-CHARLES.xmlSan Francisco officials, looking for different sources of energy, are turning their attention to the power of the poop. Dog poop, to be precise. In the next few months, the California city will start a program at a popular dog park that will encourage people to drop their dog droppings into a methane digester -- a contraption in which bacteria eat at doggie doo for weeks until the poop becomes methane gas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/22/AR2006022202191.htmlThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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ROSAMOND, Calif. -- A teacher who castrated a live pig in front of her high school class is the target of protests by animal rights activists throughout the country. The protests began after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals posted information about the incident at Rosamond High School on its Web site last month. The posting does not say when the castration occurred. Rod Van Norman, superintendent of the Southern Kern Unified School District school in the Mojave Desert about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, said animal castrations often occur in agriculture classes and are an important skill for students to learn.
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A White House report concluded Thursday that inexperienced disaster response managers and a lack of planning, discipline and leadership contributed to vast federal failures during Hurricane Katrina. The 228-page report by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend urges changes in 11 key areas - mainly in better disaster relief coordination among federal agencies - before the next hurricane season begins June 1.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11509653/Rescuers broke through walls of debris Thursday, meeting high levels of methane gas but finding no sign of the first two of 65 trapped Mexican miners in the area where they believed they were trapped. Officials said the toxic gas makes it increasingly unlikely that anyone will be found alive.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11499559/The concave, snow-covered roof of a large Moscow market collapsed early Thursday, killing at least 49 people and forcing rescuers to clear away concrete slabs and metal beams to reach possible survivors trapped in the wreckage, officials said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11514381/Aerial photographs showed what is believed to be the green roof of an elementary school swamped by a landslide, but it was far from its original site, the provincial governor said Thursday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11519811/James Frey, who admitted last month he made up much of his best-selling memoir "A Million Little Pieces," has been dropped by his publisher, Riverhead Books, Frey's representative said Thursday. Riverhead had contracted Frey to write two more books, one of them a novel, for an undisclosed sum.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11521989/Rates on 30-year mortgages as well as for some other home loans dropped this week, a dose of good news for prospective home buyers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7148582/An antibiotic and a muscle-related compound are leading candidates for a major government study of whether certain compounds could slow the worsening of Parkinson's disease.
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