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Polygamist Arrest

A paper license tag, a salad and stories that didn't make sense pricked the suspicions of a state trooper who stopped the car of a wanted fugitive polygamist in Las Vegas. But it was the pumping carotid artery in the neck of Warren Steed Jeffs that convinced Nevada Highway Patrolman Eddie Dutchover that he had cornered someone big. CNN News



Iran has released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Canadian-Iranian accused of working with the U.S. to overthrow the government. CBC News



President Bush is kicking off another series of speeches to counter opposition to the war in Iraq, Americans' impatience with the rising U.S. death toll and anxiety about possible terrorist attacks. CNEWS



Authorities cordoned off the entrance to a US military barracks for several hours on Wednesday before bomb experts determined a suspicious object found under a truck was not a threat, Dutch national police said. News24



Hurricane John became a deadly Category 4 storm Wednesday as it moved along Mexico's Pacific coast, threatening a tourist resort region that includes Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta. CBC News



Kyra Phillips, anchor of CNN's Live From, unwittingly upstaged President George W. Bush's speech in New Orleans with an on-air analysis of her husband and the marriage of her brother - all live from a CNN ladies room. CNEWS



A Bangladesh court on Wednesday overturned the sentence of a man who was convicted of murder and condemned to death, lawyers said. Delivering its verdict in the appeal of Shah Alam Babu, the High Court also ordered the trial judge in the case to be stripped of his judicial powers. News24



The lawyer for an Austrian teenager held captive for more than eight years has filed a claim to have her kidnapper's house seized and given to her as part of a compensation package. Guenter Harrich said Tuesday that 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch also has a legitimate claim to part of the kidnapper's estate. CBC News



A federal jury declared a convicted sex offender guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping and killing of college student Dru Sjodin, whose body was found abandoned in a Minnesota ravine. CNEWS



Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan have beheaded two men they accused of being US spies. A boy who'd been kidnapped was found dead in the same region, security officials said on Wednesday. News24


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