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The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
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White House Rewriting History?
At the Oct. 31 briefing, David Gregory of NBC News stated the following question to McClellan about White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby: "Whether there's a question of legality, we know for a fact that there was involvement. We know that Karl Rove, based on what he and his lawyer have said, did have a conversation about somebody who Patrick Fitzgerald said was a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency. We know that Scooter Libby also had conversations." The official White House transcript states that McClellan's response was "I don't think that's accurate."
But two outside news agencies, Congressional Quarterly and Federal News Service - which provide transcripts for a fee -both reported the response as "that's accurate."
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001477236Hundreds of angry Jordanians rallied Thursday outside one of three U.S.-based hotels attacked by suicide bombers, shouting, "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" - a reference to the leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq, the terrorist group tied to the blasts that killed at least 56 people.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9979747/Angry Moms Boycott Eatery That Asks Kids To Keep Quiet. Parent Says Restaurant Offers Kid Food, So It Should Cater To Kids.
http://www.nbc5.com/family/5294744/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65192Michael Sessions is too young to drink champagne legally, but the 18-year-old high school senior has reason to celebrate: He unofficially won a race for mayor Tuesday by defeating the baby boomer incumbent. Sessions, who turned 18 on Sept. 22, ran as a write-in candidate because he was too young to get on the ballot in the spring. The young politician used $700 from a summer job to fund his door-to-door campaign in Hillsdale, Mich., a town of about 9,000.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-09-kid-mayor_x.htmThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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Police say a 19-year-old convenience store clerk in Merrimack, N.H. fell asleep on two jobs this week: minding the store and selling drugs. He was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute after two Merrimack police officers found him sleeping in the store's office with a quarter-pound of marijuana. It happened late Monday at a 7-Eleven store after a customer called police to report no one was in the store. Police searched the building and say that they found the employee sleeping in a back office, with a big bag of pot, a scale and a smaller bag of pot.
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Police have stepped up patrols of hotels in Manhattan as a precaution following the suicide bombings of three hotels in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9990645/Honda Motor Co. recalled about 25,000 Civics on Thursday because the accelerator pedal was improperly installed on some 2006 models, which could cause a crash.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9991618/Bombings in Baghdad and Saddam Hussein's hometown on Thursday killed at least 40 people, police said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9975380/Baseball star Rafael Palmeiro will not be prosecuted on perjury charges after lawmakers said Thursday there isn't enough evidence to prove he lied when he told Congress under oath that he had "never used steroids" - six weeks before failing a steroid test.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9980814/The trade deficit soared to a record in September as the Gulf Coast hurricanes helped push America's foreign oil bill to an all-time high. The politically sensitive deficit with China also set a record.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9989767/Former Beatle Paul McCartney is to broadcast live into space from a U.S. concert to two astronauts circling the globe.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9991374/Furry, heated bras may soon appear in some Japanese wardrobes as the country prepares for "Warm Biz" - a nationwide government campaign urging workers to bundle up and save energy on heating this winter.
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