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"Yesterday, on the National Day of Prayer, we learned that the East Waynesville Baptist Church in North Carolina essentially kicked out its Democratic members. Nine members were "excommunicated" and 40 other members of the 405 member church resigned in protest." (Daily KOS
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/6/84353/67437Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Bush meeting Putin on troubled ground. A lot has changed since their first meeting in 2001, when Bush said he gazed into Putin's soul and proclaimed his counterpart, a former KGB officer, "very straightforward and trustworthy."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7747670/A woman whose son repeatedly slept in Michael Jackson's bed at his Neverland ranch testified Friday that she thought of the estate as "the happiest place on Earth" and she never saw anything inappropriate happen there.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7760007/California Highway Patrol officers are looking into another shooting on a Southern California freeway. A truck driver said it happened near Lynwood, hours after a deputy sheriff shot at two suspects on an on-ramp of the freeway in the same area.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7739986/Salary.com, which advises companies on compensation, has calculated the annual value of the work America's 5.4 million stay-at-home moms do: $131,471. Take that, high-powered professionals.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-05-mom-edit_x.htmThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.