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Supporters of Cindy Sheehan held more than 1,500 candlelight vigils across the country on Wednesday night in solidarity with this mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who has set up a protest encampment down the road from President Bush's ranch here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/politics/18crawford.htmlCindy Sheehan may be the catalyst of crisis for the Bush presidency. " Pat Buchanan.
A stream of bad news out of Iraq, echoed at home by polls that show growing impatience with the war and rising disapproval of President Bush's Iraq policies, is stirring political concern in Republican circles, party officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/politics/18repubs.htmlCountdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Israeli troops stormed the last two bastions of resistance to the Gaza pullout on Thursday, removing settlers and supporters, many of them youths, from two synagogues in the Neve Dekalim and Kfar Darom settlements.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8931552/BTK serial killer Dennis Rader's torturous fantasies were fueled by the final moments of his victims' lives, a detective testified Thursday in the second day of his sentencing hearing. He even recreated those moments, photographing himself tied to a chair and wearing a mask, a wig, a victim's dress, prosecutors said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8996967/It's not hard to commiserate with LaChania Govan's complaints about Comcast. The 25-year-old Elgin woman said that when she called to complain about persistent problems with her digital recording system, she was put on hold, disconnected, even transferred to the Spanish language line. (Note to Comcast: She doesn't speak Spanish.) After the aforementioned problems forced her to make dozens of calls to the cable company in July, her August bill arrived. In place of her name were these words: Bitch Dog.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0508180108aug18,1,6645349.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hedThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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A woman faces two counts of kidnapping after allegedly paying two boys for a lawn job with a fake $50 bill, then holding them hostage when they caught on. The victims were two slightly built boys, ages 12 and 13, who told investigators they were terrorized by Clinton. She allegedly screamed at them, threatened physical violence and exhibited other bizarre behavior. The boys told police they had been cutting lawns around Martinsburg when they saw Clinton sitting on a porch. She offered to pay $30 but said she needed change for what turned out to be a fake $50 bill....
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KIDNAPPED_LAWN_BOYS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEPoor kids can't even cut lawns without running into crazy people.
-- Carey Fox
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Four U.S. soldiers were killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in the tense, religiously mixed Iraqi city of Samarra, the U.S. military said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8977791/Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar on Thursday when a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle, the U.S. military said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8995278/Al-Qaida's leader in Saudi Arabia was killed Thursday during clashes with police in the western city of Medina, the Interior Ministry said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8996211/NASA announced Thursday that it was delaying the next shuttle launch until at least March 2006, as the space agency continues to work on problems with the external fuel tank. As reported by NBC News on Wednesday, NASA has also decided that the next mission will be flown by Discovery, instead of the originally planned Atlantis.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8997600/Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott blames his fall from power in 2002 on a "personal betrayal" by an ambitious Sen. Bill Frist, his successor, adding in a new book that President Bush, Colin Powell and other GOP associates played a role. Lott's final fall from power was triggered when he said at Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday that the country "wouldn't have had all these problems over the years" if it had elected Thurmond president in 1948.
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