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Testifying before senators from both parties critical of President Bush's electronic eavesdropping program, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday said the program was vital in the war against terrorism and tried to sidestep a request that a special federal court review it.
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An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11172994/Proclaiming "I am al-Qaida," Zacarias Moussaoui was removed from a federal courtroom in Alexandria on Monday at the outset of jury selection in his terrorist conspiracy trial. As federal marshals took him away, he shouted, "This trial is a circus."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11165730/Fresh protests erupted across Asia and the Middle East over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Monday, despite calls by world leaders for calm after Danish diplomatic missions were set ablaze in Lebanon and Syria. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm and urged restraint but oil giant Iran, which is reviewing trade ties with countries that published the cartoons, vowed to respond to "an anti-Islamic and Islamophobic current".
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-02-06T122847Z_01_L06357511_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS.xmlhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10705393/The Frenchwoman who underwent the world's first partial face transplant said on Monday she was grateful to now have a face "like everybody else" and wanted to resume a normal life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11198533/The Not-So-Super... bowl wrap-up.
They may not have flashed any body parts - except for Mick Jagger's well-toned stomach - but the Rolling Stones made ABC glad editors were on duty for the Super Bowl halftime show. Two sexually explicit lyrics were excised from the rock legends' performance Sunday. The only song to avoid the editor was "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," a 41-year-old song about sexual frustration.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11193993/That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- You don't have to be a fisherman to catch lobsters anymore. At a neighborhood store in this Portland suburb - and at restaurants and bars in more than a dozen states - customers can plunk down $2 for a chance to catch their very own lobster using a mechanical claw in an arcade-style game. The apparatus is a new version of the old-style amusement game where players put in a quarter or two in hopes of grabbing a stuffed animal. But instead of plush toys, the Love Maine Lobster Claw game has a water-filled tank full of lobsters. When a lobster is caught, the restaurants cook it for free and serve it with side dishes.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LOBSTER_GAME?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEHey, the lobsters are cooked for our pleasure... must they be humiliated, too?
-- Carey Fox
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Paint this Super Bowl black and gold. With a whole lot of satisfaction for Jerome Bettis, Bill Cowher and his Pittsburgh Steelers. The final Bus stop featured a little trickery starring MVP Hines Ward, a bunch of help from the Seattle Seahawks and a huge boost from the Terrible Towels, a handful of football fortune that added up to One for the Thumb.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11169605/Hispanic and black inmates fought at a Los Angeles County maximum-security jail despite a lockdown that had been instituted a day earlier after fighting left one black prisoner dead.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11180457/Afghan security forces thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a provincial governor on Monday and arrested a suspected al-Qaida member from Mali, the governor said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11200097/from/RS.2/Google Inc. and eBay Inc.'s Skype are investing in a startup that plans to help hotspot owners charge for Wi-Fi access, a plan that could face significant opposition from Internet service providers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11202099/Sunbathing intentionally to get more vitamin D is like taking up smoking to lose weight, a Boston dermatologist warns.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11202627/from/RS.1/Steve Fossett, this era's Phileas Fogg, wants to do something not even the "Around the World in 80 Days" hero could contemplate: Fly around the globe - and then some - for more than three days without stopping.
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