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ANCHORS: SOLEDAD O'BRIEN and MILES O'BRIEN
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Also happening "In America" today.
A Pakistani man will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison. He was convicted on Wednesday of conspiracy to blow up a New York City subway station. The plot was in retaliation for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.
In Georgia, a little girl has died. The man accused of hitting her with his car is now facing a new charge of murder. Authorities in Covington, near Atlanta, say 46-year-old Lanny Barnes had a clear intent to hurt somebody when he hit two sisters and three small children in a McDonald's parking lot on Tuesday. The two-year-old died on Wednesday.
Two New York teenagers arrested in California for allegedly trying to shake down the website myspace.com. The two are accused of hacking into the site, stealing personal information, then trying to extort $150,000.
Bill and Melinda Gates are flexing their financial muscle to battle tuberculosis in developing countries. Their philanthropic foundation has a $29 billion endowment and they're giving $104 million to the Global Alliance for TB drug development. The money is going to be used to develop faster acting TB drugs.