News of Note
Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies

Hurricane Katrina
Katrina Survivors Bused, Airlifted Out of New Orleans
Everyone Out of Superdome
Photos: Day 6, Part I
Part II
Bush: 7K More GIs Coming
Video: Troops to Come Home
Video: Who's to Blame?
What About Mississippi?
Families Search Frantically
The Big Easy That Was
Rebuild or Just Give Up?
Katrina's Aftermath Q&A
Fast Facts: Katrina Timeline
More Storms Possible
Katrina victims finally rescued from hard-hit town
Troops sent as evacuees escape New Orleans chaos
U.S. vows to end New Orleans' violent crime wave
Bush orders more than 7,000 troops to Gulf
Mississippians' suffering overshadowed
Bush aides meet with black leaders
300 Airmen Leaving Mideast for Gulf Coast

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq House-to-House Battle
19 Iraqi police, soldiers die in Baquba attacks

Other News of Note
"Top Gun" Tomcats set for one last hurrah

Fox News
Aruba Suspects Released
France's Chirac in Hospital
Oil Outlook Improving

Reuters: Top News
WHouse visit by China's Hu canceled due to Katrina
Beslan mourns with tolling bell, doves
China's Hu moves to burnish reformist credentials

The Seattle Times
U.N. official charged with money laundering
Iran faulted for hiding nuclear information
Vietnam celebrates 60 years of independence

CENTCOM: News Release
TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS STOP AMBUSH, DETAIN EIGHT IN AD DULUIYAH
WEAPONS CACHE DESTROYED, TERROR SUSPECTS CAPTURED NEAR AL-AMIRIYAH
SECURITY FORCES CONTINUE TO TAKE CHARGE AGAINST TERROR

Department of Defense
Coalition Forces Capture Terror Suspects — Story
Attack Kills U.S. Soldier, Afghan Interpreter — Story

IN IRAQ
Task Force Soldiers Inspect Iraqi Polling Sites

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Katrina

IN IRAQ
Security Forces Progress Continues
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty — Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
0476 - Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in the west, is deposed.
1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.
1618 - The "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, killing 1,500.
1781 - 44 settlers found Los Angeles, in the Bahia de las Fumas (Valley of Smokes).
1833 - Barney Flaherty becomes the first newsboy hired (NY Sun).
1882 - NY's Pearl Street Station becomes the first district lit by electricty.
1885 - In NYC, the first cafeteria opens.
1886 - With the capture of Geronimo, the last major U.S.-Indian war ends.
1888 - George Eastman patents the first roll-film camera, registering the name "Kodak."
1911 - Garros sets a world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft).
1918 - U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia - they will stay 10 months.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour.
1939 - The Polish ghetto of Mir is wiped out.
1945 - The U.S. regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.
1948 - In the Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina abdicates.
1950 - For the first time, a helicopter rescues an American pilot behind enemy lines; D McI Hodgson of St Ann Bay, Nova Scotia catches a 997 lb tuna.
1951 - President Truman makes the first transcontinental TV broadcast.
1954 - The Northwest passage, first passage of McClure Strait, is completed.
1957 - Ford Motor Commpany introduces the Edsel.
1961 - The U.S. authorizes the Agency for International Development.
1964 - NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1).
1971 - An Alaskan 727 crashes into the Chilkoot Mountain (AK), killing 109.
1972 - U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the first athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals.
1981 - NBC releases newscaster David Brinkley.
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes the only American to win cycling's Road Championship.

Birthdays
1802 - Marcus Whitman, missionary, led to the U.S. securing Oregon
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady to President James K. Polk
1810 - Donald McKay, U.S. naval architect, built the fastest clipper ships
1846 - Daniel Burnham, U.S. architect, built skyscrapers
1917 - Henry Ford II, automaker (Ford)
1918 - Paul Harvey, news commentator (The Rest of the Story)
1926 - Robert J. Lagomarsino (Rep-CA)
1929 - Thomas Eagleton (Sen-MO, Dem VP candidate, 1972)
1965 - Terri Lynn Doss, Playboy playmate (Jul, 1988)
1966 - Debra Lewin, Miss Vermont-America (1991)
1970 - Jennifer Nakken, Miss Utah-America (1991)
2179 - Nyota Uhura, communications officer (Star Trek)

Passings
1553 - Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk who converted to Judaism, burned at the stake
1965 - Albert Schweitzer, theologian, musician, medical missionary
1975 - Walter Tetley (voice of Sherman on the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Branch, James A., USAF (IL); F4C shot down (w/Jewell), remains returned March, 1992 - ID'd June, 1993

Jewell, Eugene M., USAF (KS);

1966
Bliss, Ronald G., USAF (CA); F105D shot down (pilot), released by DRV March, 1973 - alive as of 1998

McNish, Thomas M., USAF (TN); F105D shot down (pilot), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired from USAFMC as a Coloneol - alive and well as of 1998

Nasmyth, John H., USAF (CA); F4C shot down (pilot, w/Salzarulo), released by DRV February, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998

Salzarulo, Raymond P., USAF (WV); F4C shot down (B/N, w/Nasmyth), remains returned September, 1990