Now I can't even sing a Clash song? Oh.My.
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A deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was charged with using a computer to seduce a child after authorities said he struck up sexual conversations with an undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old girl. Brian J. Doyle, 55, the fourth-ranking official in the department's public affairs office, was expected to be placed on administrative leave Wednesday. Authorities arrested Doyle on Tuesday at his Silver Spring, Md., home as he was online with the "girl."
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Katie Couric on Wednesday confirmed numerous reports that she would leave NBC and join CBS, where she is set to become first solo female anchor in weekday evening network news history. "I wanted to tell all of you out there who have watched the show for the past 15 years that after listening to my heart and my gut - two things that have served me pretty well in the past - I've decided I'll be leaving 'Today' at the end of May." Couric, 49, will replace Bob Schieffer on the "CBS Evening News," beginning in September, CBS confirmed in a statement. As both anchor and managing editor of the program, which will bear her name, she will take on the responsibility of hoisting it from its current third-place ratings.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12137229/John Kerry editorial in the New York Times Today: "We are now in the third war in Iraq in as many years. The first was against Saddam Hussein and his supposed weapons of mass destruction. The second was against terrorists whom, the administration said, it was better to fight over there than here. Now we find our troops in the middle of an escalating civil war. ... So far, Iraqi leaders have responded only to deadlines - a deadline to transfer authority to a provisional government, and a deadline to hold three elections. Now we must set another deadline to extricate our troops and get Iraq up on its own two feet."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/opinion/05kerry.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sloginWhen Homer Simpson jumps to the silver screen next summer, he just might crush it. After years of speculation, the long-running Fox series "The Simpsons" has set a date for a motion picture: July 27, 2007. The date was announced in a teaser trailer attached to 20th Century Fox's Ice Age sequel. The teaser was also broadcasted during the Sunday night airing of the Simpsons.
http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=190&show=article&a_id=8061Harry Shearer is our guest.
That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
CULDESAC, Idaho -- Rufus the wild turkey has discovered the parking lot of a restaurant is a good place to get a meal - as long as he's careful not to become one. "He doesn't come inside," cook Kristie McDaide told the Lewiston Tribune. "I'd throw him right in my pot." Rufus' pluck and boldness apparently carried him through Thanksgiving as diners feasted on turkey while watching Rufus in the parking lot. Now, area residents consider him something of a pet. "He's a vain bird," said Brian Heinzerling, co-owner of the restaurant. "He's not shy either. The other day, I practically had to shut his beak in the door or he would have followed me in."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PET_TURKEY?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMECareful, Rufus. Human beings sometimes speak with forked tongue.
-- Carey Fox
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A video posted on the Internet on Wednesday in the name of an extremist group claimed to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the burning body of a U.S. pilot on the ground after the crash of an Apache helicopter.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12165495/Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is refusing to abandon his bid for a second term, resisting U.S. and British pressure to step aside to break the deadlock over a new government, the embattled leader told a British newspaper in an interview published Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12157648/U. S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said Wednesday that Rep. Cynthia McKinney turned an officer's failure to recognize her into a criminal matter when she failed to stop at his request, and then struck him.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12167411/An elementary school teacher accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of rape, authorities said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12168730/Apple Computer Inc. unveiled software Wednesday to help owners of its new Intel-based Macs run Microsoft Corp.'s rival Windows XP operating system, despite the computer maker's insistence it won't assist such efforts.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12166580/About 100 homes were being evacuated Wednesday morning as a small earthen dam in Calaveras County weakened by an overnight thunderstorm threatened to break.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12168132/British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday. Detectives halted the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport in northern England and Harraj Mann, 24, was taken off. The taxi driver had become worried on the way to the airport because Mann had been singing along to The Clash's 1979 anthem "London Calling," which features the lyrics "Now war is declared -- and battle come down" while other lines warn of a "meltdown expected."
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