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House Speaker Dennis Hastert, leading a Republican retreat, said Wednesday he stands ready to scrap controversial new ethics rules, possibly by day's end. Democrats charge the rules are designed to shelter embattled GOP leader Tom DeLay. Hastert told reporters outside the meeting that his intention earlier in the year had been to create a new set of rules that was fair to all lawmakers, regardless of party. Given Democratic criticism, he said, "I'm willing to step back."
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Jackson: Debbie Rowe expected to testify today.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4679339/The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, completed a maiden flight Wednesday that took it over the Pyrenees mountains, a milestone for aviation and for the European aircraft-maker's battle with American rival Boeing Co.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7643311/A judge ordered an Appleton woman convicted of theft to decide whether to spend 90 days in jail or donate her family's Packers tickets next season to charity.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_20783250.shtml Kevin Tibbles report on this bizarre choice.
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More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg, Germany pond in recent weeks, and scientists still have no explanation for what's causing the combustion. Scientists have been unable to find a bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop. "It's absolutely strange," said Janne Kloepper, of the Hamburg-based Institute for Hygiene and the Environment. "We have a really unique story here in Hamburg. This phenomenon really doesn't seem to have appeared anywhere before."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GERMANY_EXPLODING_TOADS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEIn related news, Kermit the frog has canceled the German leg of his European vacation.
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Gunmen shot an Iraqi woman member of parliament on Wednesday in a fresh shock to politicians whose failure to form a government three months after elections has allowed violence to thrive unchecked.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7629770/An intercity passenger train collided with a bus that tried to dash through a railroad crossing in northwestern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 35 people, officials said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7647780/Five years after being arrested with a trunkful of bomb-making materials at the U.S. border, an Algerian national convicted of plotting to bomb the Los Angeles airport faces sentencing Wednesday in Seattle.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7645588/In the space of five minutes, surrogate mother Teresa Anderson delivered five boys to a childless couple she met on the Internet, a bond that grew so close she eventually waived the $15,000 fee she had charged.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7642936/The priest in charge of caring for Polish pilgrims at the Vatican was an informer for the communist secret police in the 1980s when John Paul II was the pope, an official said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7654397/A meeting between Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer and the European Union's antitrust chief failed to settle the main outstanding differences over the EU's landmark case against the software giant, the EU said Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7653039/The blue and white gingham dress worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" was sold for $252,000 at auction Wednesday.
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