News of Note
Hurricane Katrina
French Quarter May Reopen
Complete Health Coverage
Locating Hurricane Survivors
How to Help

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Al Qaeda Presence Declines in Northern Iraq
Soldier in Iraq Faces Hearing
Injured Iraqi Girl Captures Medic's Heart

Operation Enduring Freedom
As election nears, 7 Afghans carrying voter cards are slain

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Officials: Al Qaeda May Try to Establish Gaza Presence
Reject terrorism, Bush urges UN
Slain man's family sees revenge by IRA

Supreme Court
Dems Grill Roberts
Video: Battle for the Bench

Things That Make Me Go @#$%*&*@#!!!
Chicago biggest city yet to call for bringing troops home
Piece of Pentagon stone stolen from Naperville Sept. 11 memorial

Other News of Note
Judge Strikes Down Pledge
Video: Pledge Battle

Fox News
Baghdad Bombs Kill 31
Partial-Birth Ban Nixed
Mercedes Death Mom's Murder Conviction Upheld
Two U.S. Airlines Bankrupt
Caged Kids Spotlight Disabled Adoption Issues
Ophelia Grinds Along
Slow storm brings rain, wind
Fast Facts: Hurricane Categories
Fast Facts: How to Prepare

Reuters: Top News
Suicide bombers kill 24 Iraqi policemen
Sharon to put onus on Palestinians after pullout
7 foreigners detained in UK for "national security"
Memory of Gen. MacArthur exposes divide in S.Korea
Eritrea holds U.S. embassy staff for trafficking
Kabul says Taliban cannot derail Afghan vote
Bush to announce new help for hurricane region

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Four bombings kill at least 31 in Iraq
Annan seeks to restore U.N. credibility

Chicago Sun-Times
Roberts inches closer to confirmation
Jews, Muslims unite to fight for religious courts in Canada
Smuggled weapons entering Gaza as Israeli soldiers exit
Mass. rejects gay-marriage amendment
Museum auctioning photo treasures
Sea lions invade Calif. harbor, sink 50-ft. boat worth $24,000

Boston Globe: World
UN aid chiefs cite lag in funds for refugees
Path cleared for Pinochet to face trial in 15 deaths
North Korea, US at odds on non-weapons nuclear plant

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
US walks fine line between friend and foe in Iraq rebel town
Iraqi Brothers Go Home in Coffins; 2 Days of Attacks Claim 180 Lives
US Takes Counteroffensive in War of Words
Iraq Concerns Will Reverberate in Congress

Department of Defense
Bush Urges United Nations to Support Iraq — Story Remarks
NATO Transforms for 21st Century Threats — Story

ON THE GROUND
Tiny Robot Carries Big Responsibility — Story
Squadron Keeps Wing Flying High — Story

FACE OF DEFENSE
Father, Son Join Katrina Relief Efforts — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Community Honors Families — Story

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Katrina

IN IRAQ
Task Force Raid Nets Weapons
Forces Respond to Attacks
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Governors Confer
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Al Qaeda Terrorist Captured
Memo Seals Support for Center
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
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Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1620 - The Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims aboard.
1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay, Manhattan.
1789 - The Department of Foreign Affairs is renamed the Department of State.
1821 - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua gain independence.
1830 - In England, William Huskisson becomes the first to be run-over by a railroad train.
1862 - Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry.
1887 - Philadelphi celebrates the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.
1894 - Japan defeats China in the Battle of Ping Yang.
1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his first airplane flight.
1914 - The Battle of Aisne begins (Germany vs. France).
1916 - At the Battle of Flors, in France, the first tank is used in war ("Little Willies").
1917 - Russia is proclaimed a republic.
1931 - At Invergordion, the British naval force mutinies over pay.
1935 - The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship, and make the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.
1938 - British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden.
1940 - The Tide turns in the Battle of Britain (The RAF beats the Luftwaffe).
1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil, Lithuania.
1947 - The first 4-engine jet-propelled fighter plane is tested in Columbus, OH.
1948 - An F-86 Sabre sets a world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph.
1949 - "The Lone Ranger" premiers on ABC-TV
1950 - U.N. forces land at Inchon, in southern Korea.
1952 - The U.N. turns Eritrea over to Ethiopia.
1959 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in the U.S. to begin a 13-day visit.
1963 - Four African-American children are killed in the bombing of a Black Baptist church in Birmingham, AL.
1965 - "Lost in Space" premiers on TV.
1966 - Gemini XI returns to Earth.
1968 - Zond-5 is launched; it will make the first lunar flyaround with an Earth reentry (it was a probable test flight for a manned fly-around, but Apollo 8 got there first).
1973 - "Star Trek-Animated" premiers on TV
1976 - Soyuz-22 carries two cosmonauts into an 8-day Earth orbit.
1981 - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
1982 - The first issue of "USA Today" is published by Gannett Co., Inc.; Israeli forces begin pouring into west Beirut.

Birthdays
0053 - Trajan, 13th Roman emperor (98-117), conqueror of Ctesiphon.
1830 - Porfirio D¡az, soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
1857 - William Howard Taft , 27th U.S. President (1909-13), chief justice
1876 - Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1881 - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
1890 - Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express)
1904 - King Umberto II of Italy (1946)
1913 - John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general (went to jail)
1914 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army General (Vietnam War)
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted the existence of quarks
1941 - Miroslaw Hermaszewski, first Polish space traveler (Soyuz-30)
1946 - Oliver Stone, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon); Tommy Lee Jones, actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday)
1984 - Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales, third in the line of British sucession

Passings
1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC)
1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed by Iran
1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos)

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Tice, Paul Douglas, USMC (NY); KIA, body not recovered