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Blissfully Unaware;
On a Bicycle in Beltsville, Blissfully Unaware
By Dana Milbank / Washington Post
When the state of red alert was declared yesterday, the vice president was evacuated from the White House and the first lady was whisked to a secure location. But no precautions were needed for President Bush.
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"The decision was made to inform the president upon conclusion of his bike ride," Bush press secretary Scott McClellan said
And That's Just the Way Bush Likes It
Bush satisfied with alert response
Associated Press
WHITE HOUSE -- President Bush is said to be satisfied with how officials handled yesterday's White House security alert, even though he wasn't told until it was over.
However, Press Secretary Scott McClellan says the incident is being reviewed -- and if any improvements need to be made, they will be.
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Reuters
Iran says nuke talks not dead amid EU warnings
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Talks between Iran and the European Union could still defuse a confrontation over Tehran's nuclear work, Iranian officials were quoted as saying on Friday, amid warnings Iran risks referral to the U.N. Security Council.
Iran has said it is poised to announce a return to activities related to uranium enrichment.
Britain, France and Germany persuaded Iran to suspend such activities late last year to reassure the world it was not seeking nuclear arms as Washington believes.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8486149
Colorado Springs Gazett
FBI Nabs Troops, Officers in Drug Sting
By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- FBI agents posing as cocaine traffickers in Arizona caught 16 current and former U.S. soldiers and law enforcement personnel who took about $220,000 in bribes to help move the drugs through checkpoints, Justice Department officials said Thursday.
Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization Service inspector, a former Army sergeant, a former federal prison guard, current and former members of the Arizona Army National Guard and the state corrections department, and a Nogales police officer, officials said.
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U.S. Judge Rejects Neb. Gay-Marriage Ban
BY KEVIN O'HANLON
Associated Press Writer
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A federal judge Thursday struck down Nebraska's ban on gay marriage, saying the measure interferes not only with the rights of gay couples but also with those of foster parents, adopted children and people in a host of other living arrangements.
The constitutional amendment, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, was passed overwhelmingly by the voters in November 2000.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon said the ban "imposes significant burdens on both the expressive and intimate associational rights" of gays "and creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs' right to petition or to participate in the political process."
Bataillon said the ban beyond "goes far beyond merely defining marriage as between a man and a woman."
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Investigation ordered into police gunfire that killed escaped buffalo in neighborhood
COLORADO SPRINGS (AP) - The city manager has ordered an investigation after police fired up to 120 rounds in a residential neighborhood to kill five buffalo that had escaped from a slaughterhouse.
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Police Shoot Buffalo Escaping From Packing Plant
Monday Incident Mirrors Similar Shooting In 2003
POSTED: 11:29 am MDT May 10, 2005
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Police Monday shot and killed five buffaloes that escaped from a meatpacking plant.
Instead of fleeing, the buffalo began grazing in a yard and police fired at the buffalo with semiautomatic rifles as each charged officers one-by-one.
"If five of them would have charged at once, I'm not sure we would have had enough manpower to kill all of them," Colorado Springs police Lt. Larry Laxson said.
The buffalo managed to get out when a truck driver didn't properly park his truck in the delivery chute at the G & C Meatpacking Plant, said plant owner Frank Grindinger.
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The Los Angeles Times
PICTURES ACCOMPANY WTH DISCUSSION
Shooting Spurs TV News Debate
Live broadcast captures fatal wounding of suspect by police after car chase.
By Eric Malnic and Jia-Rui Chong
Times Staff Writers
May 12, 2005
At least two television stations provided live coverage Wednesday as Long Beach police officers fatally shot a man after a car chase, reigniting a debate about how TV news outlets should cover chases and other live events that could end in violence.
The shooting came at the end of a 50-minute pursuit across Long Beach and the South Bay that channels 2 and 7 followed with TV helicopters — the kind of story that has become a staple of local newscasts.
When the suspect suddenly jumped out of his vehicle at a Long Beach strip mall and allegedly reached for a pistol, the cameras captured a group of police officers opening fire and the suspect falling to the ground.
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3 Anti-U.S. Protesters Killed in Clashes With Afghan Police
From Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police clashed with anti-U.S. demonstrators in two Afghan towns, killing at least three people, and Afghan students burned an American flag in Kabul today as protests spread over reported abuse of Islam's holy book at the U.S. jail in Guantanamo Bay.
The unrest came a day after riots in the eastern city of Jalalabad left four people dead -- the worst anti-American protests in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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Al Jazeera
Anti-U.S. protests turn deadly in Afghanistan
Anti-U.S. demonstrations continued for another day in Afghanistan, protesting over U.S. interrogators’ desecration of the Qur’an, Muslims’ holy book, at Guantanamo Bay.
One protester was killed and four others were wounded in a blast, officials said.
Although most of the protesters appeared to be university students, some officials claimed that elements opposed to the country's U.S.-backed re-emergence were fueling the violence, which also targeted the UN offices and American troops in the country.
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Iraq on the verge of a civil war- Experts
With the wave of deadly car bomb attacks that struck several Iraqi cities and towns over the past few days, experts say that the war- torn country is either on the verge of civil war or already in the middle of it.
About 400 people lost their lives in various bomb attacks in Iraq during the past 10 days.
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Fierce uprising breaks out in Uzbekistan
Soldiers in Uzbekistan surrounded thousands of people, many of them armed, who took to the streets of an eastern Uzbek city on Friday, attacking a prison, protesting the arrest of 23 prominent businessmen on charges of ‘Islamic extremism’, witnesses said.
The men were arrested in June on charges of being members of the Akramia religious group and having contacts with the Hizb-ut-Tahrir party, which authorities accuse of inspiring attacks in Uzbekistan that claimed the lives of more than 50 people over the past year. But the group has repeatedly denied responsibility.
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The Pentagon closes 33 major U.S. military bases to save $48 billion
5/13/2005 3:00:00 PM GMT
The Pentagon suggested on Friday the closure of 33 major U.S. military bases and the realignment of 29 others, including Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine and Fort McPherson in Georgia.
Several smaller facilities were also recommended for closure as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave a nine-member Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission a list of recommendations for closing or consolidating many of the military bases in the United States and its territories.
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