Tonight on Countdown
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With a big boost from his party's conservative leaders in Washington, Rhode Island's Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the most liberal of the Senate's 55 Republicans, fought off a challenge from self-styled populist Steve Laffey Tuesday to win his party's nomination. Chafee has long been a thorn in the president's side. Last January, he was the sole Republican to vote against confirmation of Bush's Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. In 2002 Chafee was the only GOP dissenter on the resolution authorizing Bush to use military force in Iraq. He also voted against Bush's tax cuts and against banning partial-birth abortion.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14806295/The RNC had backed Chafee instead of his more conservative opponent, knowing that he was their only chance of holding onto that Senate seat.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10senate.htmlBut Chafee still faces a tough challenge in November, as do many other Senate and congressional Republicans.
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Analysis from Howard Fineman: Democratic operatives have been warning Rep. Nancy Pelosi for months that she needs to prepare for what Karl Rove and the GOP have in store: an all out, coast-to-coast assault. As the Democratic leader in line to be speaker if her party wins control of the House, Republicans see Pelosi as the piñata of politics in 2006.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13561823/Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in a series of bloody incidents throughout the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said. At least 62 unidentified bullet-riddled corpses--all bearing signs of torture--have been found throughout the city since Tuesday night, said Brig. Gen. Abdullah Mahmood of the Interior Ministry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091300320.htmlThe 14,000 firefighters battling dozens of blazes across the West on Wednesday were expecting another hot, windy day before a cold front might provide relief to some areas. The National Interagency Fire Center early Wednesday reported 162 new fires over the last day, three of them large blazes that added to the 43 pre-existing large, uncontained fires across the West.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14815236/In an exclusive interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Debra Beasley LaFave speaks out in her first television interview about the 2004 criminal case that made her one of the most infamous school teachers in America. LaFave, the young, attractive teacher who became an international sensation, pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious battery and is currently serving a sentence of house arrest.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14801562/Kitson, the Beverly Hills boutique popular with celebrity shoppers, is suing Us Weekly, accusing the gossip magazine of ignoring the shop in its coverage of the famous and their spending habits.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14807020/A nearly four-month-old Internet drama in which the cryptic video musings of a fresh-faced teenager became the obsession of millions of devotees - themselves divided over the very authenticity of the videos, or who was behind them or why - appears to be in its final act. The woman who plays lonelygirl15, whose first-person videos are among the most-viewed on the clip-sharing Web site YouTube, has been identified as Jessica Rose, a twentyish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. And the whole project appeared to be the early, serialized version of what eventually would become a movie.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/technology/12cnd-lonely.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1158120000&en=a56f0e777a707f56&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=sloginThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
RED BANK, Tenn. -- Police are investigating after a man wrote about launching a "feline jihad" to rid his Chattanooga suburb of stray cats. Max Gerskin wrote a two-part series in the Chattanooga Pulse weekly publication, the first of which was published Aug. 9 and titled, "Madder Max: The Cat Lady and My New Dog." The second installment was published Wednesday and titled, "Feline Jihad: The Cat Lady, Part II." In his commentary, Gerskin said the strays fed by a "neighborhood cat lady" have brought filth and disease to his home, and local Humane Society officials haven't been able to stop it. As a result, he wrote, "I've officially become a trapper and it's time to take a walk to the river."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FELINE_JIHAD?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEHey, bud, the cats don't want to sleep with the fishes.
-- Carey Fox
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/Other News:
The death of Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year-old son was termed "suspicious" by the coroner's office Wednesday, and a formal inquiry that could lead to criminal charges has been scheduled. Authorities said at least one other person was in the hospital room when Daniel Wayne Smith died Sunday while visiting his mother.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14816091/A man wearing military fatigues and throwing punches into the air tried to open the exit door of a jet during a cross-country flight on Tuesday night, airline officials and passengers said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14809852/NATO allies must fulfill their commitment to the future stability of Afghanistan by dispatching more troops to fight insurgents, Washington's ambassador to the alliance said on Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14813354/Astronauts working to bring to life a new 17½-ton addition to the international space station lost another bolt to the void during a spacewalk early Wednesday. There was no indication that the latest missing bolt went into the rotary joint or any other space station mechanisms, and the assumption is it floated away.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14815066/Ford Motor Co. is expected to soon announce a massive corporate that will lower white-collar costs by 30 percent and include cutting jobs and benefits, according to the online version of The Wall Street Journal.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14807592/The University of Northern Colorado's reserve punter was arrested Tuesday, accused of stabbing his rival in his kicking leg.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14815045/Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it will launch a DVD recorder using Blu-ray technology by the end of the year in Japan, fortifying its lineup of high-definition optical disc products.
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