KEEP LOOKING: The FBI said Tuesday that a parachute found in southwest Washington isn’t linked to plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.
OUTDATED: The Pentagon on Tuesday released a now-invalid 2003 legal memo approving harsh interrogations of terror suspects, saying that President Bush’s wartime authority trumped any international ban on torture.
DISARMED: A boy, 7, was caught Tuesday with two loaded handguns in a Baltimore County classroom.
PELOSI’S CALL: Defense Secretary Robert Gates reversed the decision to bar a gay Wisconsin lawmaker’s domestic partner from a military plane after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi contacted Gates. The Pentagon at first blocked Rep. Tammy Baldwin’s partner from traveling with a congressional delegation in March to Europe, the political newspaper Politico reported Tuesday.
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QUOTABLE
‘Dennis, she’s rolling on me. Help me. Help me.’
– Transcript published Tuesday from flight recording of pilots Bill Serra and Dennis Hoyes as they struggled to stabilize their aircraft, which crashed June 4 in Lake Michigan soon after taking off from Milwaukee. Both men and a four-member organ transplant team aboard were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board is seeking a cause.
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