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February 23, 2012 | | EXCLUSIVE Before Whitney Houston’s death, the singer was linked to 31-year-old Ray J, Brandy’s younger brother best known for his starring role in the Kardashian sex tape. The Daily Beast’s Ramin Setoodeh reports on the reality TV show Ray J had been shopping around—which featured footage of the couple. AFGHANISTAN The fallout from the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of two U.S. troops. An Afghan official tells CBS that an Afghan soldier shot the soldiers out of anger over the burning of the holy books. Protests over the incident have raged for three days in Afghanistan. Afghan police fired shots to disperse a mob of protesters who tried to break into a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan. President Obama has issued a foromal apology for the handling of the Quran: “We will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, including holding accountable those responsible,” he wrote in a letter to President Hamid Karzai. REPRESSION As the assault on Homs entered its 20th day, French journalist Edith Bouvier, wounded Wednesday in a rocket attack on the house she was staying in, pleaded via an online video let her evacuate Syria to have urgent surgery. Bouvier was injured in the same attack that killed American journalist Marie Colvin and French photograph Rémi Ochlik, and recent intelligence from Syrian Army officers suggests the journalists had been targeted. The Daily Beast’s Mike Giglio talks to the head of the Committee to Protect Journalists about why journalists have become such a threat to dictators struggling to hold onto their power. TRAGIC A helicopter collision has tragically claimed the lives of seven Marines. The crash occurred Wednesday night near Yuma, Ariz., NBC News reported. The Marines were conducting a training exercise when their aircraft collided in midair. While the cause of the crash is under investigation, military officials have yet to release the names of the dead, but said there were no survivors. The Marines hailed from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing based at Miramar in Southern California. The crash occurred around 8 p.m. local time. FIRED UP With gas prices up around 29 cents per gallon over the last two months, President Obama is responding to critics who say he’s not doing enough to keep fuel costs down. At an appearance at the University of Miami on Thursday, Obama laid out an energy plan that denies the existence of any quick fix, a petroleum panacea. Rather, he reiterated a plan that emphasizes more domestic production and greater investment in sources of green energy. The White House has said in the past that gas prices rise and fall in cycles that are for the most part not within the president’s control. | | 
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