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Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The memo purports to include minutes from a July 2002 meeting with Tony Blair, in which Blair allegedly said that President Bush's administration "fixed" intelligence on Iraq in order to justify the Iraqi war.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7873141/#050516bFederal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8118123/Michael Jackson was treated at an emergency room for "excruciating" back pain, a day before jurors in his molestation case were to begin their first full day of deliberations. The jury resumed its deliberations at 8:30 p.m. PT on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8110442/The government called on thousands of civil servants and tourists to join in a massive islandwide search Monday for a missing Alabama teenager, while police, soldiers and FBI agents combed scrubland and beaches.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8089310/That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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An off-duty police officer on a Sunday drive saw something awfully familiar - his recently stolen Volkswagen Jetta. North Charleston patrolman Ethan Bernardi whipped his cruiser around and pulled over the stolen vehicle. He called other deputies, who arrested three suspects, police said. The driver, Vicki K. Grooms, 42, and two passengers were charged with possession of a stolen vehicle.
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Pakistan has handed over to the United States senior al-Qaida suspect Abu Farraj al-Libbi, who was wanted for two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an official said Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8116772/The International Criminal Court on Monday formally announced the opening of a war crimes investigation in Sudan's Darfur region.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8117034/The United States military is unlikely to hold court-martial proceedings in three cases of deliberate mishandling of the Quran at Guantanamo Bay prison, a top military official said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8117793/A Palestinian former university professor goes on trial Monday in a Florida federal court on charges of raising money for Palestinian suicide bombers in one of the most high-profile terrorism prosecutions in the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8112601/The wife of former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew Fastow left a federal prison in Houston early Monday to serve the last month of her one-year sentence for a tax crime in a halfway house, her lawyer said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8117665/Exactly a month before the vote, front-runner Paris received the best overall review Monday in an IOC evaluation of the five cities bidding for the 2012 Olympics.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8091451/Russell Crowe was arrested Monday morning for allegedly throwing a telephone at an employee of the Manhattan hotel where he was staying, police said.
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