President Bush said Wednesday he was troubled by allegations that U.S. Marines had killed unarmed Iraqi civilians and that, "if in fact laws were broken, there will be punishment." It was Bush's first public comment on allegations that Marines killed about two dozen unarmed Iraqi men, women and children in the western city of Haditha last November.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13065025/U.S. military officials say the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in November appears to have been an unprovoked attack by U.S. Marines, after an investigation found the victims died of gunshot wounds.
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In the first public testimony by a member of Jack Abramoff's inner circle, a former congressional aide told a federal jury yesterday how the disgraced lobbyist identified his "champions" in government and then showered them with favors to get inside information and help for his clients. Neil G. Volz, who was chief of staff to Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) before joining Abramoff's lobbying firm, testified that among those he and his colleagues considered allies were Ney and former General Services Administration official David H.
Safavian, the first person brought to trial in connection with the Abramoff scandal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001206.html
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off her bid for a second Senate term Wednesday, telling supporters to get ready for a Democratic sweep in November. "When the dust clears in November, New York is going to have a Democratic government from top to bottom, and we're going to show the rest of the country what that means," Clinton told New York's Democratic state convention.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053101022.html
The Atlantic hurricane season that starts Thursday will be active, but it shouldn't be as destructive as last year's record-setting season, one of the nation's top hurricane forecasters said Wednesday. The latest forecast from William Gray's team at Colorado State University calls for 17 named storms for the 2006 season. Nine storms are expected to become hurricanes, and five of those are expected to have winds of 111 mph or greater, the forecasters said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053100998.html
With Matt Lauer bringing the box of tissues, the "Today" show threw a going-away party Wednesday for 15-year host Katie Couric, who is leaving to become the next anchor of the "CBS Evening News." Co-host Lauer placed the tissue box on the desk at the show's opening, saying "this is not for you, this for me."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13059461/That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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LOS ANGELES -- A widow won $2.1 million from a high-priced matchmaker whom she claimed failed to deliver on promises of introductions to cultured, wealthy men. Anne Majerik, a 60-year-old social worker from Erie, Pa., claimed in a lawsuit that she paid Beverly Hills matchmaker Orly Hadida $125,000 to be introduced to men who wanted monogamous relationships, earned more than $1 million and had
estates of up to $20 million. Instead, she said, she only got a few
introductions to inappropriate men. For example, her suit claimed, the matchmaker's "international banker" turned out to be "an interpreter that worked in a bank." Orly, an Israeli beauty pageant winner who goes by her first name, countersued. She alleged Majerik is a "serial matchmaker suer" who enjoyed erself with the men she met before claiming she had been "psychologically damaged by the process" and demanding compensation. Orly claimed Majerik became her client after she helped the widow prevail in a lawsuit against another matchmaker.
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