Spy in the White House & Indiana Seeks to Prohibit Gays from Using Medical Science To Become Parents In Today's PM Details 10/5/05

- Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history. Officials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.

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The virus responsible for the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 50m people worldwide, has been reconstructed by genetic engineering in a high-security US laboratory. Preliminary studies show that it is an avian flu virus that mutated to spread quickly between people just as many experts fear will happen soon with the current H5N1 strain of bird flu in Asia. Details of the project are published today in the journals Science and Nature. The US National Institutes of Health approved the research, despite its apparent risk, because it will help scientists find new treatments for the most dangerous types of flu.

- A suicide car bomber drove at a mosque south of Baghdad on Wednesday as Shi'ites were marking the start of the holy month of Ramadan and brought part of the structure crashing down, killing at least 25, police said. The death toll could rise as a roof had caved in and people were being dug out of the rubble in the darkness, they said. At least 87 people were wounded in the blast at Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of the capital.

- Legislation has been introduced in the Indiana legislature that would prohibit gays, lesbians and single people in Indiana from using medical science to assist them in having a child. The bill would bar any doctor from assisting in a pregnancy through intrauterine insemination, donation of an egg, donation of an embryo, in vitro fertilization and transfer of an embryo, and sperm injection without making a number of "determinations" about the "suitability of the candidate. (Brought to you by the party who wants less government! Seems that ideal only only applies to business regulations not privacy issues.)