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Al-Qaida is making preparations to attack the United States again but offering a truce "with fair conditions," the terrorist group's leader, Osama bin Laden, purportedly says in an audiotape aired Thursday by Arab news network Al-Jazeera. The tape's release came days after a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan that was targeting bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, and reportedly killed four leading al-Qaida figures, including possibly al-Zawahri's son-in-law. There was no mention of the attack on the segments that were broadcast.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10924015/Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
The mother of abducted American reporter Jill Carroll appealed for her daughter's release Thursday, hours before her captors' deadline, saying the 28-year-old is a woman of deep conviction who respects the Iraqi people.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10895039/The official Vatican newspaper published an article this week labeling as "correct" the recent decision by a judge in Pennsylvania that intelligent design should not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution. "If the model proposed by Darwin is not considered sufficient, one should search for another," Fiorenzo Facchini, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Bologna, wrote in the Jan. 16-17 edition of the paper, L'Osservatore Romano.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/science/sciencespecial2/19evolution.htmlThe moment Antonio Davis dashed up into the stands, everyone was thinking the same thing: another NBA brawl. Yet this was different. Concerned his wife was in trouble, the New York Knicks forward reached her in the seats but remained calm, never took a swing at anybody and willingly walked away when security arrived.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10916711/Paris Hilton faces a multi-million-dollar suit over comments she may have made privately to her publicist about an incident at a bar - though, allegedly, she made the comments with a view toward having her version of events circulated in gossip columns.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20060117.htmlThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
Police arrested a man accused of faking his death more than 25 years ago to avoid paying child support. Johnny Sterling Martin, 58, had a relative call Family Court in 1979 and report that he died during a bar fight in Alabama, authorities said. That call came a few months after he escaped from a work detail while serving a one-year jail term for failing to pay $4,120 in support for two children. He was captured Tuesday and jailed, and now owes more than $30,000 in child support and faces an escape charge, authorities said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FAKED_DEATH?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMENow THAT brings new meaning to the phrase "deadbeat Dad".
-- Carey Fox
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Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy said Thursday he will oppose Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's confirmation, saying he did not believe the conservative judge would be independent of President Bush and the executive branch in his future rulings.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10925164/The Bush administration, seeking to revive an online pornography law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, has subpoenaed Google Inc. for details on what its users have been looking for through its popular search engine.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10925344/The number of U.S. workers making new claims for unemployment benefits tumbled unexpectedly last week to 271,000, their lowest level in nearly six years, the government said on Thursday in a report suggesting a robust labor market.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10923728/Two near simultaneous bombings targeted a crowded downtown Baghdad coffee shop and nearby restaurant, killing at least 23 people and wounding 26, according to police and hospital officials.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10873761/A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a restaurant at a crowded pedestrian mall near Tel Aviv's old central bus station Thursday, and at least 15 people were wounded, police said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10923135/Doctors said new tests are needed on an 11-year-old girl who is responding to medical stimuli and breathing on her own after being taken off life support.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10922070/An extreme cold spell caused more deaths among Russians stranded on frigid streets Thursday, while thousands of revelers plunged into icy waters for an annual ritual marking a Russian Orthodox holiday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10924668/NASA gave the green light Thursday to begin fueling for an afternoon launch of a $700 million unmanned mission to Pluto.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10924952/They sang like angels for their audition on Tuesday's 'American Idol' premiere, but a pair of Memphis twins may sound more like jailbirds by the time the show goes live from Hollywood. Terrell Brittenum, 28, has been in jail since Jan. 10 on an outstanding warrant for charges related to the illegal purchase of a car in Rockdale County, Ga., east of Atlanta. He and his brother, Derrell, are accused of using another man's identity to buy a 2005 Dodge Magnum in June.
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