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Polygamist leader says he's persecuted Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs interrupted his Texas child sexual assault trial on Friday, shouting that his religious rights were being violated and warning the court it was stomping on "sacred ground". Drought-hit Texas welcomes tropical storm As much of Texas suffers through one of its worst droughts, many rain-starved Texans are doing something they thought they would never do â€" looking forward to the arrival of Tropical Storm Don. Bush explains reaction upon learning of 9/11 attacks Former President George W. Bush says what some people took as his apparent lack of reaction to the first news of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was actually a conscious decision on his part to project an aura of calm in a crisis. Nixon's Watergate testimony ordered released The secret grand jury testimony of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal was ordered released Friday by a federal judge because of its significance in American history. 'All-out search' for 'shy' girl gone missing Police on Friday went door-to-door in an "all-out search" for a missing 11-year-old girl in a small New Hampshire town near the Canadian border. House passes Boehner debt bill The Republican-controlled House on Friday evening passed Speaker John Boehner's revised bill to raise the debt ceiling, cut spending and call for a balanced-budget amendment. Anonymous posts some hacked NATO info Hackers with the loose-knit group Anonymous said on Friday they had broken into the network of U.S. government contractor Mantech International Corp and posted some NATO-related correspondence online. Convicted ax murderer is executed in Delaware A convicted ax murderer, on Delaware's death row for some 18 years, was executed on Friday at the state prison in Smyrna. Adrift 18 hours, pilot mulled ‘how much time I had left’ “The motor started sputtering, and that’s when the panic set in,” said Michael Trapp, 42, who survived 18 hours treading water after his Cessna 150 crashed in Lake Huron. “I don’t know how much time I had left,” he said Friday. Good Samaritan returns $16,000 to owner A man who found a stack of money at a bank drop box says keeping it was never a temptation. “I knew what I had to do the next morning, which was to return it to the bank.” Judges clear air in toilet paper dispute An appeals court has unrolled its decision in a dispute over toilet paper that involved  top-notch lawyers, the deposition of more than a dozen witnesses and some 675,000 pages of documents. These 10 cities could lose a lot of post offices While the iconic rural post office has gotten a lot of attention, hundreds of urban outlets are targeted by the Postal Service's cost-cutting plan. here are 10 cities facing the loss of offices. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032524/device/rss/rss.xml

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