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MSNBC Demotes Keith Olbermann

by: David Bauder, The Associated Press

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann.
Keith Olbermann. (Photo: MSNBC)

    New York - MSNBC said Sunday it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.     The change reflects tensions between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the impartial newsgatherers at NBC News. Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights »

Afghan woman and young girl.

Evidence Contradicts US Denials in Afghan Airstrike

by: Carlotta Gall, The New York Times

    Azizabad, Afghanistan - To the villagers here, there is no doubt what happened in an American airstrike on Aug. 22: more than 90 civilians, the majority of them women and children, were killed.

    The Afghan government, human rights and intelligence officials, independent witnesses and a United Nations investigation back up their account, pointing to dozens of freshly dug graves, lists of the dead, and cellphone videos and other images showing bodies of women and children laid out in the village mosque.

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Pakistanis survey damage.

US Attack Kills Several in Pakistan

by: Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah, The New York Times

    Islamabad, Pakistan - Five missiles fired from an American pilotless drone aircraft Monday hit a large compound in North Waziristan belonging to one of Pakistan's most prominent Taliban leaders, a Pakistani intelligence official and a local resident said.

    The missile attack at about 10:20 Monday morning killed nine people, including two children, and injured up to 18, according to the account from the intelligence official. A spokesman for the Pakistani army, Maj. »

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