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Armed with fresh legal firepower, Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges stemming from the CIA leak probe - raising the specter of a trial in which Cheney and other top Bush administration officials could be summoned to testify. Libby entered the plea in front of U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, a former prosecutor who has spent two decades as a judge in the nation's capital.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9906781/Top White House aides are privately discussing the future of Karl Rove, with some expressing doubt that President Bush can move beyond the damaging CIA leak case as long as his closest political strategist remains in the administration.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9904521/Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
The Bush administration's policies for holding and detaining suspected terrorists came under sharp scrutiny and criticism yesterday after disclosure that the CIA had set up covert prisons in several Eastern European democracies and other countries. The U.N. special rapporteur on torture said he would seek more information about the covert prisons, referred to in classified documents as "black sites." Congressional Democrats and human rights groups warned that the secret system would damage the U.S. image overseas. House Democrats said they plan to introduce a motion as early as today to endorse language in the defense spending package written by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), which would bar cruel and inhuman treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody, including those in CIA hands.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202988.htmlThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Thursday for access to all foreign terrorism suspects held by the United States after a report of a covert CIA prison system for al Qaida captives.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-03T135053Z_01_MAR343636_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-PRISONS-CROSS.xml&archived=FalseA key figure in al-Qaida's terror network in Europe is under arrest, U.S. counterterrorism officials tell NBC News.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9909169/An ultralight airplane tumbled out of the sky Wednesday and crashed behind a fence 20 yards west of the Blue Hill football field's 5-yard line - 30 minutes after the East Butler Tigers kicked off to the Bobcats. Nobody was seriously injured when the pilot lost control of the single-seat, open-cockpit aircraft above the Blue Hill High School in front of a crowd of nearly 2,000.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/11/03/local/doc4369644b0e1a2496267166.txtKermit the frog turns 50!
Our guest: Kermit the Frog.
That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
This was no one-night stand. Scientists in India say they have discovered two fossils fused together in sexual union for 65 million years. The findings were published in the October edition of the Indian journal "Current Science," which said it was the first time that sexual copulation had been discovered in a fossil state, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. The fossils are tiny swarm cells, a stage in the development of the fungus myxomycetes, also known as slime molds.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INDIA_FROLICKING_FOSSILS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMENothing like a 'slime mold' romance to start your day. Ah, love!
-- Carey Fox
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Merck & Co. won a major victory in the battle over its Vioxx painkiller Thursday when a New Jersey state jury found that the drug maker properly warned consumers about the risks of the medication.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9910674/A manhunt was on across South Carolina on Thursday for two violent inmates who escaped a maximum-security prison in the back of a garbage truck.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9909725/A small-town judge who has three wives should not be removed from the bench because his private behavior has not tarnished the office he holds, the judge's attorney told the Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9904689/China's next space flight will carry three astronauts into orbit to perform a spacewalk and prepare for an eventual space station, newspapers reported Thursday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9909549/Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and government documents that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material can be scanned and indexed from five major libraries.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9909524/Home Depot was sued by a shopper who claims he got stuck to a restroom toilet seat because a prankster had smeared it with glue. Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding. "They left me there, going through all that stress," Dougherty told The (Boulder) Daily Camera. "They just let me rot."
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