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Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist called Tuesday for the Bush administration to stop a deal permitting a United Arab Emirates company to take over six major U.S. seaports, upping the ante on a fight that several congressmen, governors and mayors are waging with the White House. "The decision to finalize this deal should be put on hold until the administration conducts a more extensive review of this matter," said Frist. "If the administration cannot delay this process, I plan on introducing legislation to ensure that the deal is placed on hold until this decision gets a more thorough review."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11474440/Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11475776/Picture two steaks on a grocer's shelf, each hermetically sealed in clear plastic wrap. One is bright pink, rimmed with a crescent of pearly white fat. The other is brown, its fat the color of a smoker's teeth. Which do you reach for? The meat industry knows the answer, which is why it has quietly begun to spike meat packages with carbon monoxide.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002818569_meat21.htmlThe physical search for Vivi has gone psychic. With all leads running dry on the sixth day since the prized show dog darted off a plane during boarding at Kennedy Airport, the main search party has begun taking advice of at least four animal communicators.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/newyork/nyc-nyvivi214635482feb21,0,4100192.story?coll=nyc-nynews-printA gym teacher in Pensacola, Florida is in trouble for allowing gym students to pay him one dollar to skip gym class. Officials say Terence Braxton accepted money from students September through December of 2005 at a local middle school. And according to one school official, it may have averaged out to approximately $100 a week.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7002451849That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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Police in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames have launched a burglary-reduction scheme using DNA to trap light-fingered ne'er-do-wells. Kits will be distributed later this month to allow householders to mark property with synthetic sequences that last for up to 30 years. The unique DNA stretches are suspended in an adhesive, and can be compared to sequences held in a database when stolen goods are recovered for easy identification. As a backup, the glue also contains spy-style microdots that carry more identifying info.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/21/richmond_dna_burglars/For some reason, this really bugs me.
-- Carey Fox
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A federal grand jury has indicted three Ohio men linked to al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on terrorism charges of planning attacks overseas to try to kill U.S. and coalition military personnel in Iraq and other countries, according to U.S. officials and court documents unsealed Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11188274/Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari angrily dismissed on Tuesday U.S. warnings to shun sectarianism in the country's new government, saying Iraqis would not accept interference in their affairs.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10663271/Rescue workers dug grimly Tuesday for a mud-swamped elementary school, but in a different spot from where they excitedly detected underground sounds a day earlier that they hoped were signs of life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11400414/U.S. intelligence agencies have been secretly removing from public access at the National Archives thousands of historical documents that were available for years, The New York Times reported Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11188275/Gov. George Pataki was transferred to a New York City hospital Tuesday because he was showing no improvement five days after surgeons removed his appendix. Pataki's intestines aren't functioning and he is being given water and nutrients intravenously, said Dr. Wiji Ratnathicam, a surgeon at Hudson Valley Hospital Center, where the governor had been treated before the transfer.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11478470/Taking prescription beta blocker or statin drugs may boost the chances of having only mild chest pain instead of a heart attack as the first symptom of heart disease, researchers reported Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11474600/The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God. Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church's religious practice. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11188277/Climate change that strengthens the El Nino weather patterns could endanger food supplies for more than 20 million people in Africa, a new study warns.
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