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The military announced the killing of four more U.S. soldiers over the weekend, pushing the American death toll past 1,700 -- more than double what it was a year ago.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8202434/Nearly six in 10 Americans say the United States should withdraw some or all of its troops from Iraq, a new Gallup Poll finds, the most downbeat view of the war since it began in 2003.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-12-poll_x.htmOn ABC's This Week, Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., an ardent supporter of the invasion, called on Bush for a timetable for withdrawing troops. "I feel that we have done about as much as we can do," he said.
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Just as the U.S. media -- albeit a month late -- scramble to get on top of the so-called "Downing Street Memo," the Sunday Times in London unveiled another leaked document which confirms and goes behind the message of the memo. Meanwhile, Walter Pincus of the Washington Post has a related, front-page report on Sunday. "Ministers were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal," the Sunday Times reports.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000955273Interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, including playing Christina Aguilera's music to keep terror suspects awake, have been revealed in a new report. The 84-page document, obtained by Time magazine, concerns the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani - an alleged acquaintance of Osama bin Laden and an intended participant in the September 11 attacks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/13/utorture.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/13/ixportaltop.htmlMichael Jackson's jury began a seventh day of deliberations in the child molestation case against the pop star.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8204642/NBC News has learned that the jury has asked to have at least part of the accuser's testimony read back, which could take all day.
The mother of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teen who vanished here two weeks ago, told NBC News on Monday that the three young men being held as suspects "hold the key" to the mystery and that the governments of Aruba and the United States need to pressure them into revealing the truth.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8202144/Monica Novotny reports: Minute Clinics.
That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
Hundreds of naked cyclists rode past Big Ben and the U.S. Embassy in London on Saturday to protest the West's dependence on gas-guzzling cars - and to push for more use of bicycles. The organizers of World Naked Bike Ride 2005 said protests were expected in a number of countries, including Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Israel. In the Spanish capital, Madrid, dozens of nude cyclists pedaled along major thoroughfares past famous landmarks, drawing surprised looks.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_NAKED_CYCLISTS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMENow that's a free and easy feeling. And yet, somehow, it doesn't sound too comfortable.
-- Carey Fox
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The Supreme Court on Monday overturned the conviction of a black death row inmate who said Texas prosecutors unfairly stacked his jury with whites, issuing a harsh rebuke to the state that executes more people than any other.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8203846/At a meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, party activists were hoping to hear one of their leaders denounce President Bush's Iraq policy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8194578/An explosion near a U.S. military vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday wounded four American troops, a U.S. military spokesman said, the latest in a series of bloody assaults on coalition forces.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8197613/An Iraqi judge has questioned Saddam Hussein about the killings of dozens of men from a Shiite village where he survived an assassination attempt in 1982, the Iraqi special tribunal said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8203470/Potential jurors arrived under heavy security Monday for the trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused in the notorious killings of three civil rights workers four decades ago.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8203510/Ford Motor Co. is recalling nearly 260,000 vehicles, most of them large pickup trucks, to fix safety defects that include sudden stalling of diesel engines, U.S. federal safety regulators said on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8203875/A motorcyclist captured on film by German police racing at 155 mph on a road near Berlin has set a new unofficial national record for speeding, Germany's Bild newspaper reported Monday.
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