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U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life Thursday, to "die with a whimper," for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He declared: "God save Osama bin Laden - you will never get him." Brinkema and the unrepentant Moussaoui capped the two-month trial with an intense exchange that will mark the defendant's last public words before his incarceration in a maximum security prison in Colorado. Brinkema firmly refused to be interrupted by the 37-year-old defendant as she disputed his claim that his life sentence meant America had lost and he had won. "Mr. Moussaoui, when this proceeding is over, everyone else in this room will leave to see the sun .. hear the birds ... and they can associate with whomever they want," she said.
She went on: "You will spend the rest of your life in a supermax prison. It's absolutely clear who won."
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The Kremlin on Thursday rejected as "completely incomprehensible" remarks by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney that Russia was backsliding on democracy and using its vast energy supplies to bully its neighbors. Cheney, in remarks that could cause tense moments when Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts his first summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations in July, earlier told Baltic and Black Sea leaders in Vilnius that Moscow should return to the path of democratic reform.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12623085/The House narrowly passed a bill on Wednesday intended to restore public trust in Congress by reshaping the relationship between lawmakers and lobbyists. But Democrats denounced the measure as a sham, and 20 Republicans voted against it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/washington/04lobby.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1146715200&en=c561ee945e1c8a92&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=sloginRNC Chairman Ken Mehlman met with Republican members of Congress this week to impress upon them just how bad the opinion polls are looking for them, and warning that they face a possible catastrophe in November.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14544A political strategist who left U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris's Senate campaign last month said Harris ignored her staff's recommendation to reject a defense contractor's $10 million appropriation request, now being challenged by a congressional watchdog group.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050400660.htmlRepublican Katherine Harris is launching the first TV ad of the U.S. Senate race in Florida with a message of defiance.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/14485603.htmAs illusionist David Blaine sits in a glass sphere filled with water, spectators pass by at Lincoln Center. Blaine entered the sphere on Monday. He will stay there until May 8 when he will remove his breathing tube and attempt to hold his breath for nine minutes, breaking the world record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds. He will be handcuffed to 150 pounds of chain and try to free himself during the final stunt.
Monica Novotny reports.
Britney Spears has hired a babysitter - for her hubby. The "Oops, I Did It Again" crooner is paying a minder/bodyguard to keep an eye on her aspiring rap star husband Kevin Federline, according to In Touch Weekly.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12583648/That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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YUBA CITY, Calif. -- A taxpayer advocate has complained to Sutter County supervisors that metal detectors at county buildings are so sensitive they are being set off by underwire bras. Sutter County Taxpayers Association member Roberta Fletcher said the male security guard seemed to enjoy waving the handheld metal detector over her chest. "It is, at a minimum, for a woman, embarrassing. And at a maximum, it is sexual harassment to hold your arms outstretched while a male officer waves a wand in front of your breasts," Fletcher told supervisors at their meeting Tuesday.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/METAL_DETECTOR_BRAS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME-- Carey Fox
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A key congressman on Thursday agreed to allow the federal government to spend $5 million for a Memorial honoring those killed when the hijacked Flight 93 crashed in a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12629890/A gunman shot three people in a hospital parking lot Thursday, killing one before he committed suicide outside a school, officials said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12630332/The Vatican on Thursday excommunicated two bishops ordained by China's state-controlled church without the pope's consent, escalating tensions as the two sides explore preliminary moves toward improving ties.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12627627/The U.S. military command Thursday released previously unseen images of a video purportedly posted by al-Qaida in Iraq's leader, showing him decked out in American tennis shoes and unable to operate his machine gun.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12630258/A portrait by Pablo Picasso of the woman who influenced him in the late 1930s and early 1940s sold for $95.2 million, the second-highest amount ever paid for a painting at auction, the auction house Sotheby's said.
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