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The classified status of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame will be a key element in any trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, according to special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald has said that at trial he plans to show that Libby knew Plame's employment at the CIA was classified and that he lied to the grand jury when he said he had learned from NBC News's Tim Russert that Plame, the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, worked for the agency.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/21/AR2006052101024.htmlA congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer. At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chuckles about writing in code to keep secret what the government contends was his corrupt role in getting his children a cut of a communications company's deal for work in Africa.
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The government has the legal authority to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday. "There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility," Mr. Gonzales said on the ABC News program "This Week."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/washington/22gonzales.html?_r=1&oref=sloginSenator John McCain kept reading his speech as boos and angry hecklers tried to drown him out. His appearance at the New School commencement Friday was met with harsh protest from students who thought his conservative political positions had no place at their liberal university. "The senator does not reflect the views on which this university was founded," said graduate Jean Sara Rohoe. "Not only this, but his invitation was a top-down decision that did not take into account the desires and interests of the student body." The anger was made clear in remarks from Rohoe, who abandoned her original speech to criticize the Republican lawmaker's appearance. Students had petitioned for the university to cancel McCain's speech, but the school's president, former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey, refused to give in.
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=3&aid=59590Veterinarians announced Sunday night they had successfully fused the shattered right leg of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, offering reason for optimism after a tumultuous 24 hours during which the racehorse went from contending for the Triple Crown to struggling for its life.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/22/SPGK8IVS8L1DTLThere was no smile. Fans didn't jump out of the stands chasing him around the bases like Hank Aaron after home run No. 715. There was precious little emotion when Barry Bonds hit his 714th home run Saturday against the Oakland Athletics, tying Babe Ruth.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/giants/2006-05-21-bonds-reaction_x.htm?POE=SPOISVAThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A 10-year-old girl who drove off with her guardian's sport utility vehicle with a toddler and a 5-year-old on board crashed the vehicle into several cars, authorities said. The girl sideswiped several cars during her 15-minute drive Thursday night and reached speeds up to 50 mph, said Ted Roy, spokesman for the Escambia County Sheriff's Office. "She was so little she had to go down and hit the gas and pop her head back up to see where she was going," Roy said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHILD_DRIVER?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME-- Carey Fox
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U.S.-led coalition aircraft killed up to 80 suspected Taliban militants in a night airstrike in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Monday. The local governor said 16 civilians also died.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12909608/The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season will be very active with up to 10 hurricanes, although not as busy as record-breaking 2005, when Hurricane Katrina and several other monster storms slammed into the United States, the U.S. government's top climate agency said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12915678/Mayor Ray Nagin, the self-styled maverick with a quick and sometimes gaffe-prone tongue, immediately began trying to mend ties with political opponents and crucial leaders as he won another four years to oversee reconstruction of this major American city.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12903625/The Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it found 15 examples of gasoline price gouging after Hurricane Katrina, though the agency said it has not identified any widespread effort by the oil industry to illegally manipulate the marketplace.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12916360/Autopsy findings indicating that three of five eastern Kentucky coal miners killed in an explosion died of carbon monoxide poisoning infuriated several family members still mourning their deaths.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12913859/With the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination well under way here, Evan Bayh showed off the assets that seem to be making him a top-rank competitor for Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses 18 months from now.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12907997/A 7-year-old Arizona boy on Monday became one of the youngest ever to swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco's Aquatic Park. Braxton Bilbrey, a second-grader from Glendale, Ariz., who has completed several short-scale youth triathlons, jumped in the chilly waters shortly after 7 a.m. to start the estimated 1.4-mile swim with his coach and two other adults.
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