PS: Let's take a moment for the Crazy Frog song which beat Coldplay for the #1 spot on the UK singles chart. And Sir Bob and his new stab at Live Aid. Yay!
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Ex-FBI official says he's 'Deep Throat.' Magazine quotes him as saying he was 'doing his duty.' W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the "Deep Throat" source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8047258/Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Two days after winning reelection last fall, President Bush declared that he had earned plenty of "political capital, and now I intend to spend it." Six months later, according to Republicans and Democrats alike, his bank account has been significantly drained.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/30/AR2005053000891.htmlA human rights group's report about conditions at the U.S. military's prison at Guantanamo Bay is "absurd," President Bush told reporters Tuesday. The Amnesty International report, released last week, said prisoners at the U.S. Navy base had been mistreated and called for the prison to be shut down.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8046041/Michael Jackson's child molestation trial has left the singer a nervous wreck who barely sleeps or eats, and may never again befriend a child, his father has claimed. Joe Jackson said the trial may have frightened his son out of future friendships with children.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19389-1635351,00.htmlThe bizarre tune that's topping the British charts.
That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
When Michele Hutchison's baby is born, she envisions more than a pure bundle of bouncing joy. She also sees a potential billboard. The suburban Philadelphia mom-to-be is inviting advertisers to put their names on her child's clothing and baby goods, saying the ads are sure to get noticed. " Everyone looks at babies. We're going to be out and about all the time," said Michele Hutchison, 26, whose second child is due in June.Hutchison, a stay-at-home mother, has placed notices on the Web sites Craigslist and eBay seeking bids of at least $1,000 for the rights for one month.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BILLBOARD_BABY?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEWhat a heartwarming story to tell her child when he/she grows up. "You were my cash cow."
-- Carey Fox
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Four American and four Italian military personnel were killed in separate aircraft crashes in Iraq, military officials said Tuesday, and the Iraqi government said the governor of western Iraq's volatile Anbar province has been killed during clashes between U.S. forces and the insurgents who abducted him.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7897149/A mob angered by an al-Qaida-linked suicide bombing in a Shiite mosque set a KFC restaurant on fire in overnight rioting, killing six employees and bringing the day's overall death toll to 11, police said Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8040422/The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying Enron Corp.-related documents before the energy giant's collapse.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8046535/On the morning he was to graduate high school, Scott Moody walked a half-mile to his grandparents' farmhouse and began what authorities say was the first stop in a gruesome murder-suicide that ended in six deaths.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8028084/A 9-year-old girl fatally stabbed an 11-year-old girl in the chest with a kitchen knife during a fight over a ball, authorities said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8044197/In the courtroom, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's relatives gasped at his stiff sentence on Tuesday. Russia's once richest man will spend the next seven years, give or take time for good behavior, laboring in a penal colony.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8045957/United Airlines' mechanics union ratified a five-year contract Tuesday, removing one strike threat from the carrier as another labor group negotiated down to the deadline.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8038903/London's Hyde Park, Circus Maximus in Rome and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are among the venues for Live 8, a series of concerts being organized by Bob Geldof, the driving force behind the 1985 Band Aid and Live Aid campaigns for African famine relief.
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