News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Choose or Lose (Iraq's constitution vote)
Iraq Car Bomb Kills 2
Saddam's Court Date
Bid to Delay Saddam's Trial Dismissed
Marines Who Stormed Fallujah Back in Iraq
Insurgents Kill at Least 12 Iraqis

Operation Enduring Freedom
Suicide Bombings Kill 3 in Afghan City

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Real or Hoax? (NYC threat)

Hurricane Season
New Orleans Stores Look to Fill Jobs
New Orleans police vow crackdown as crime picks up
Tropical Storm Vince Forms in Atlantic

Sports News
Baseball Scores
Football Scores
For the son he loved, Jurevicius plays

Other News of Note
3 die, homes evacuated in Eastern storm
New Syrian TV Show Angers Some Arabs
Fire destroys 'Gromit' warehouse
Quake toll exceeds 30,000
FBI may relax hiring policy on drug use

Foxnews: U.S. & World
Stanford VW Wins $2M Driverless Car Race
Poles Vote in Presidential Election
Sharon Casts Doubt on Abbas Meeting
Iran: Nuke Talks in Everyone's Interest
Rescuers Try to Reach Victims
U.S. Sends Aid After Devastating Earthquake in Pakistan
South Asia an Earthquake Hotbed
Video: Sending Aid
Video: Search for Survivors
Photo Essay: Devastation in South Asia

Reuters: Top News
German parties in deal to make Merkel chancellor
Bulgaria to ban poultry from Turkey and Romania
Darfur rebels free 36 hostages: AU
US, Israeli economists win Nobel for "game theory"
Anger at slow aid to Guatemala mudslide village
Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians at Gaza border
U.S. to try to break deadlock in WTO trade talks

AP World News
Looting Breaks Out in Wake of Deadly Quake
Rumors of Another Quake Keep Kashmiris Out

Sunni-Shiite Religious War in Iraq Feared

Official: Sharon-Abbas Meeting Postponed
Liberians Hope Election Seals Peace Deal
N. Korea Ruling Party Marks 60th Year
India Airdrops Burial Shrouds, Food
Many Students Among Dead in S. Asia Quake
Rebels Kidnap 19 in Sudan, Release Some
Immigrants Tell of Trek to Spain Enclave
Police Disperse Protesters in Azerbaijan

The Seattle Times
Pakistan pleads for help in race to rescue victims
Pakistan school buildings hit hard
Calls for review of Katrina relief growing louder
Late effort to win Sunni support for Iraq's charter
Virginity a commodity in Uganda

Chicago Sun-Times
Mob boss ordered JFK hit, book says
Guatemala ready to give up on its missing
Runoff seems likely in Polish election
Bennett says racial remarks misunderstood
Do cold medicine rules just chase meth out of state?
Legendary U.S. base in Germany to close
Cambodian police: Parents attack their daughter, drink her blood

Boston Globe: World
Europe bracing to battle bird flu
In Kashmir, burials amid the destruction
Bishop who denounced Nazis is beatified

Military.com
U.S. Sends Military Aid to Pakistan
U.S. Handing Air Base Back to Germany
Navy 27, Air Force 24
1st Female Airman Killed in Iraq Honored
On Patrol in Afghanistan
Blue Angels to Honor Voris
Navy's Katrina Bill may be $2.7 Billion
Saddam's Trial to Begin Next Week
New York Transit to Maintain Increased Security
Oliver North: Triumph Over Terror
The Romanian submarine Delfinul.
Cartoon Corner: Ricky's Tour

CENTCOM: News Releases
TERROR SITE FOUND
TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS SUSTAIN OPERATION SARATOGA SECURITY OPERATIONS
FIRST U.S. HUMANITARIAN AIRLIFT REACHES ISLAMABAD
COALITION FORCES CAPTURE 8 TERROR SUSPECTS, WEAPONS
STATEMENT FROM THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ON THE SOUTH ASIAN EARTHQUAKE
COALITION SENDS HELICOPTER SUPPORT TO ASSIST PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY

Department of Defense
Rumsfeld Pledges Aid in Relief Effort — Story Statement
Coalition Copters, Crews to Help Recovery — Story
IED Kills Marine; Suicide Bomber Stopped — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Troop Tribute Spotlights Guardsman — Story

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Coverage
Iraq Transition of Power

IRAQ
Forces Ready for Referendum
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
System Supplies Troops Faster
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Defense Officials Identify Casualties — 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

National Hurricane Center

Today in History
1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills between 20 and 30 thousand in the Caribbean.
1845 - The Naval School (U.S. Naval Academy) opens in Annapolis, MD.
1846 - William Lassel discovers Neptune's moon Triton.
1854 - The U.S. Assay Office opens in New York City.
1865 - John Hyatts patents the billiard ball.
1868 - Cuba revolts against Spain.
1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession.
1886 - The first dinner jacket is worn to the autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY, leading to its more familiar name, the tuxedo.
1888 - In Mud Run, PA, a Teetotalers excursion train is crushed, killing 64.
1913 - Gamboa Dam in Panama is blown up; the Atlantic and Pacific waters mix.
1914 - German forces rout the Belgians in Antwerp.
1923 - The NY Giants and the NY Yankees become the first teams to play each other in three consecutive World Series (it is also the first played at Yankee Stadium - World Series #20)
1924 - The Washington Senators win their first World Series (they beat the Giants in 7 games - World Series #21)
1933 - The first synthetic detergent for home use is marketed.
1938 - Germany completes annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of office as president of China.
1957 - President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghana;s Finance Minister Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after Gbdemah is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
1963 - The U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. sign a treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests.
1970 - Fiji gains independence from Britain.
1973 - VP Spiro T. Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to tax evasion.
1975 - Israel formally signs the Sinai accord with Egypt.
1976 - In NJ, Giants' Stadium (Meadowlands) opens; Greece's Dimitrion Yordanidis becomes the oldest man (at 98) to compete in a marathon, finishing in 7:33.
1978 - President Carter authorizes the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over the Canal Area (Zone).
1980 - 4,500 die when a two earthquakes strike northwest Algeria; the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network is dedicated.
1981 - Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo.
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M. Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1985 - U.S. fighter jets force the Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, the hijackers are placed in custody.
1986 - A magnitude 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador; Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns.
1990 - The 67th manned U.S. space mission (STS-41 / Discovery-11) returns to Earth.
1991 - Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy.

Birthdays
1731 Henry Cavendish, physicist / chemist (discovered hydrogen)
1738 - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi Italy, opera composer (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
1825 - Paulus Kruger, President of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader
1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (1833-68)
1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer / humanitarian, Nobel Prize winner (1922)
1910 - Price Daniel (Gov/Sen-TX)
1918 - Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist (Monk's Dream)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel, actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima)
1930 - Adlai Stevenson III (Sen-IL)
1946 - Ben Vereen, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster); Peter Mahvolich, NHL star (Mont Canadiens)
1955 - David Lee Roth, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump)
1958 - John M. Grunsfeld, Ph.D. / astronaut; Tanya Tucker, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)

Passings
1886 - David L. Yule, first Jewish U.S. Senator
1959 - Prince Friedrich of Liechtenstein
1964 - Eddie Cantor comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
1978 - Ralph H. Metcalfe (Rep-IL)
1985 - Orson Welles, actor (Citizen Kane); Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I)
1990 - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Dodd, Joe L., Civilian; escaped October, 1965

1966
Confer, Michael Steele, USN (NE); A4E exploded, KIA, body not recovered

1968
Handrahan, Eugene A., US Army (MN); reported KIA when unit was ambushed, body not recovered

Herreid, Robert D., US Army SF (IL); reported KIA, body not recovered

1969
Maxwell, Calvin W., US Army (NM); O1G shot down (observer, w/Weisner)

Weisner, Franklin L., US Army (GA); O1G shot down (pilot, w/Maxwell)

1970
Graziosi, Francis G., US Army (NY); UH1C (or UH1H) shot down (door gunner)

1972
Cleary, Peter M., USAF (CT); F4E shot down (pilot, w/Leonor)

Leonor, Leonardo C., USAF (NY); F4E shot down (navigator, w/Cleary)