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A liberal Democrat and potential White House contender is proposing that the Senate censure President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality. "The president has broken the law, and, in some way, he must be held accountable," Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) said. A censure resolution, which simply would scold the president, has been used just once -- against Andrew Jackson in 1834 over a dispute about banking. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) called the proposal "a crazy political move" that would weaken the United States during wartime.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/12/AR2006031200877.htmlCountdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
President Bush on Saturday said he was shocked to learn that his former domestic policy adviser was charged with theft for allegedly receiving phony refunds at department stores. Claude Alexander Allen, 45, was arrested Thursday by police in Montgomery County, Md., for allegedly claiming refunds for more than $5,000 worth of merchandise he did not buy, according to county and federal authorities.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-11-ex-aide-bush_x.htm?POE=NEWISVAU.S. troops would hand Iraqi forces the lead role in halting violence if a civil war breaks out in the country, backing up the Iraqis with strict curfews and restrictions on movement, a top general said Sunday. Brig. Gen. Douglas Raaberg echoed statements made last week by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who told Congress he didn't believe Iraq would descend into all-out civil war but that if it did, the nation's own security forces would be responsible for dealing with the turmoil.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/12/AR2006031200486.htmlSwarms of tornadoes killed at least 10 people across the Midwest, shut down the University of Kansas and damaged so much of Springfield on Monday that the mayor said "every square inch" of town suffered some effects.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11788140/Firefighters worked through the night trying to contain wind-driven wildfires that raced across hundreds of thousands of acres on the dry southern Plains, forcing the evacuation of several small towns and killing at least seven people.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11803558/Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday authorities would seek an indictment against a bouncer with a long rap sheet, the prime suspect in last month's gruesome slaying of a graduate student. Blood found on the plastic ties used to bind Imette St. Guillen has been matched to a bouncer at the bar where she was last seen alive, the New York Police Department commissioner said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11742476/Spoiler alert for TiVo users and other belated watchers of Sunday's edition of "The Sopranos" on HBO: The following story reveals a surprise ending. The ups and downs of family life hit Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) at the center of his belly Sunday when his Uncle Junior, rapidly descending into dementia, shot him in the stomach. At the end of Sunday's episode, Tony's fate is unknown, as he lies bleeding on his uncle's floor. Like the death of Nate Fisher before the last episode of HBO's "Six Feet Under," the incident makes for a startling cliffhanger.
http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/tv/mmx-0603130210mar13,0,3486583.story?coll=mmx-television_hedsThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
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Police charged an Australian driver with "reversing further than necessary" after he traveled backward for more than 40 kilometers (25 miles) along one of the country's busiest highways. Police said the man told them reverse was the only gear in the car that worked and that he was traveling home to the small regional town of Numurkah, 90 kilometers (56 miles) farther on his way.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11804925/He exclaimed, "Fault my not it's."
-- Carey Fox
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Following two recent studies on changes to Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, NASA is touting a survey that it says confirms "climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth's largest storehouses of ice and snow." "If the trends we're seeing continue and climate warming continues as predicted, the polar ice sheets could change dramatically," he said in the press release last Wednesday. "The Greenland ice sheet could be facing an irreversible decline by the end of the century."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11745704/An angry federal judge unexpectedly recessed the death penalty trial of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to consider whether government violations of her rules against coaching witnesses should remove the death penalty as an option.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11808377/The mystery around Slobodan Milosevic's death deepened Monday when a toxicologist raised a third possibility besides poisoning or suicide: accidental death due to deliberate use of the wrong medication.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11806794/Maureen Stapleton, the Oscar-winning character actress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television, died Monday. She was 80.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11809995/Almost three years to the day that "The Da Vinci Code" was first published, American author Dan Brown found himself on a witness stand in courtroom 61 of London's High Court on Monday, denying accusations he copied from others to produce his huge best-seller.
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