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February 4th, 2008
06:58 AM ET

Morning Buzz

Morning Folks....The Morning Buzz is baaaack!!! AND soooo are the GIANTS! WOW!!! What a game last night!! What a win!! What an upset!!! Ok..Ok.. There is other news out there today, too...

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday...voters coast to coast will cast their vote and maybe, just maybe, we will have a clear front runner on both sides of this election... So check out Raw Politics for the latest... AND keep scrolling down to Crime & Punishment, there is new info in the Natalee Holloway murder.... PLUS folks aren't just talking about the Giant WIN this morning, but those crazy commercials, too....

SOOO grab your coffee and let's get started... 

Top Stories
Giants upset Patriots to win Super Bowl XLII...
The New York Giants won Super Bowl XLII with a last-minute touchdown, upsetting the New England Patriots' hopes of becoming the first team since 1972 to complete a National Football League season undefeated.

Stunning Victory...
Plaxico Burress had caught what became the winning touchdown pass, but all the anticipation born of improbability had to remain corked for 35 more seconds.

Explosion at Israeli Shopping Center...
A suicide bomber detonated explosives in a shopping mall in the southern Israeli town of Dimona on Monday morning, killing at least one person and wounding 11 others, police said.

Coalition forces killed nine...
Coalition forces killed nine Iraqi civilians and wounded three others near the town of Iskandariya, a U.S. military spokeswoman told CNN Monday.

Bhutto autobiography...
In an autobiography being published after her assassination, Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she was warned that four suicide bomber squads would try to kill her, one led by Osama bin Laden's 16-year-old son.

One survivor...
The police confirmed Sunday that one woman survived an apparent robbery gone wrong at a suburban Chicago shopping center that left five others dead.

Raw Politics
Super Tuesday stumping begins....
The remaining contenders for the presidency kicked off their final maneuvers for Super Tuesday, fine-tuning their closing messages in appearances on the Sunday talk shows and fanning out across the nation for an exhaustive list of last-minute campaign stops.

All tied up...
The Democratic presidential race has become a cliffhanger as a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll on Sunday showed Barack Obama wiping out Hillary Rodham Clinton's double-digit national lead just before coast-to-coast contests on Tuesday.

Another Kennedy enforces Obama...
California first lady Maria Shriver on Sunday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president, becoming the latest member of the Kennedy clan to line up behind the senator from Illinois.

Candidates scrambling from coast to coast...
Republican presidential candidates jousted over conservative purity Sunday as they raced across the South, the Midwest and New England in a late scramble before the Super Tuesday contests that could settle the party nomination.

It's the economy stupid, again...
An economic downturn at election time almost always spells disaster for the political party that holds the White House. But the slowdown this year could add an especially cruel twist for the Republican presidential nominee.

Oprah is back...
Offering women a permission slip to desert the candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton in favor of Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey said Sunday they should not feel guilty if they preferred him over her.

Crime & Punishment
Holloway body dumped...
An investigative judge said Sunday that sufficient reason exists to reopen the inquiry against Joran van der Sloot, a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway from the island of Aruba

Keeping Them Honest
Landmark military spending...
As Congress and the public focus on more than $600 billion already approved in supplemental budgets to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for counterterrorism operations, the Bush administration has with little notice approached a landmark in military spending.

Clemens talks, again...
Roger Clemens arrives here for his own Super Tuesday this week, a showdown with his former trainer in closed-door testimony to Congressional lawyers.

AC360 follow
Fugitive caught...
A high school dropout who stole the identity of a missing South Carolina woman and used it to gain admission to two Ivy League colleges has been arrested, police said Sunday.

What YOU will be talking about TODAY
Super Bowl Ads...
The Patriots' streak was broken, but Anheuser-Busch's was not.In the high-stakes world of Super Bowl advertising, it aired the best-liked Super Bowl ad for a record 10th-consecutive year, according to results of USA TODAY'S exclusive Super Bowl Ad Meter real-time consumer focus group testing.

Mayor kidnaps dog?
A small-town mayor accused of secretly keeping her neighbors' dog after telling them the pet died has resigned, and a judge is set to decide custody of the Shih Tzu.

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