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AP Network News. I’m Tim Maguire.

— I call upon the congress to pass the intelligence bill.
President Bush twists arms, makes deals in an effort to get the House Republicans to pass intelligence reform. Jerry Bodlander reports the negotiations seem to be working on Capitol Hill.
— Aides say there has been a breakthrough with one of the bill’s main opponents, House armed services committee chairman Duncan Hunter, though they still have to dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s. Meanwhile, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, congresswoman Jane Harmon, says it is critical that President Bush keep up the pressure for a final agreement. (If he doesn’t get this bill done, he’s not going to get a lot of other bills that he really, really wants.) One 9/11 widow says she’d be too ashamed to visit Ground Zero ever again if the bill isn’t passed this week. Jerry Bodlander, Capitol Hill.

Food and drug administration wants food companies to closely track everything that goes into their products. FDA’s new rules will affect everyone from processors and manufacturers to trucking companies that carry the food all around the country.

An army specialist says it’s a question of fairness as he filed suit today in Washington with seven other soldiers, challenging the Pentagon’s Stop/Loss policy that allows the military to keep people in service beyond their enlistments. White Houses press secretary Scott McClellan says the reason the military works is because of its voluntary service.
— People sign up voluntarily to be members of the military. We appreciate the job that they do. They do a tremendous job, serving to make the world a better place, and to make the world a safer place, and to make America more secure.
The lawsuit claims policy breach of contract because it extends the length of service without a soldier’s consent.

A lawsuit’s been filed in federal court in Boston challenging the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The 12 gays who were expelled from the military are challenging the constitutionality of the policy, in light of a supreme court decision last year, which overturns state laws making gay sex a crime.

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Rosa Park’s landlord has a change of heart. Two years after threatening to evict the civil rights pioneer from her downtown Detroit apartment, her landlord letting her stay rent-free for the rest of her life. Peter Cummings, a managing partner of Riverfront Associates says the company is proud to help Parks.
— It’s an honor to be able to be of assistance to someone of that importance in our community.
A Detroit church began paying her rent, as much $1800 a month last year when it learned of her financial troubles. Doctors say the 91-year-old Parks has dementia and is in poor health.

Two teenage brothers bouncing a golf ball when it went astray hit an SUV in St. Augustine, Florida parking lot. Police say the woman who owns the SUV then ran down the boys leaving one in critical condition, the other with non-life threatening injuries. Police say the boys apologized to Kathy Allen before she pulled a u-turn and drove over a couple of curbs to get to them. She has been charged with attempted murder in the case involving those two teenage boys.