News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
41 Dead, 70 Wounded in Iraq
Bomb Kills Two GIs
Insurgents Down U.S. Helicopter, Killing 2
Saddam: 'I Am Ready to Die'
Saddam ignores murder charges

Operation Enduring Freedom
Taliban commanders said among dead in Afghan clash

Other Military News
Report: U.S. Military Ignoring Troops' Mental Problems (Basically the same as the "Hartford Courant" story I linked to yesterday)

NSA / CIA News
Report: Cheney Derailed in Push for Domestic Wiretaps
Hayden CIA bid hinges on spying role: senators

Immigration
Bush to Call on National Guard
Video: Americans Speak Out
Video: Bush's Immigration Plan

Hamas Rising
Abbas urges Hamas to respect deals

Worldwide Wackos
Iranian President Dismisses European Nuke Proposals
Video: Nuclear crisis deepens
EU promises "generous, bold" Iran nuclear offer

Politics
Bush political problems may have no quick fix
Mrs. Bush: Don't Campaign on Marriage Ban

News from My Neck of the Woods
New England Emergency
Torrential rains swamp states
Video: More Rain Expected - Dangerous Situation
New England hit by heaviest rains in a decade
New England Braces for More River Flooding

Oddities
Hair-raising Beethoven piece: da-da-da Diamond!
Worry over mobile phone explosions
Baby's Hand Severed at Chocolate Factory
Teacher Regrets Murderous Essay Assignment

Other News of Note
Brazilian Gang Kills 52
Girl Missing on Mother's Day Found 30 Years Later
Third Deadly Alligator Attack in Florida in Past Week
Video: Facing death after marrying for love (Pakistan)
Chat Rooms Help FBI Hunt for Pedophiles

Fox News
Villagers Ignore Indonesian Volcano On Verge of Eruption
Video: New Duke Evidence
Stocks to Watch: Target
'MI:3' Sinks 'Poseidon'
Greece's Orthodox Church: 'Da Vinci Code' False
American Idol Center

Reuters: Top News
Merapi volcano erupts with gas and ash
Climate change may kill millions in Africa: report
China draws veil of silence over sacked academic
Work, motherhood a healthy combo for women - study
Cardiovascular disease costs UK billions a year
Da Vinci Code's last secret: how did it succeed?
Judge dismisses suit by Bob Marley bass player
HealthSouth March quarter loss widens
AstraZeneca agrees to buy CAT
Talks to resume in GM's UK job cut plan
Abbey plans first big branch expansion for 17 yrs
H&M April sales below forecast, shares fall
Belgium's Roularta Q1 EBIT misses expectations
Stock futures fall as commodities stumble - Video
AWD shares fall as restructuring hits earnings
Enodis shares hit 5-year high
Rumors fly as Sleeman launches strategic review
Inflation data may give stocks whiplash
Experts warn of dollar-inflation link
Watchdog targets bloated audits
On the Radar: Biovail

AP World News
Report: 48 Million Refuse to Buckle Up
'Survivor' Picks Its $1 Million Winner
Brand, Cassell Help Clippers Tie Series
Snap.com Blurs Lines Between Ads, Content
'West Wing' Ends With Graceful Transition
3 Teens Killed in Minn. Prom Night Crash
Move of Halliburton Meeting Draws Fire
Porn Maker Allows Downloads for TV Viewing
Texas RB Charged With Marijuana Possession

Military.com
Raising the Stakes for Female Troops
Bush to Speak on Border Control
Attacks in Iraq Kill 2 U.S. Marines
Saddam Charged With Murder and Torture
Advocate for America's Vets Dies
VA Launches Anti-Obesity Campaign
Games at Fort Monroe Take Veterans Back
Tempers Flare Over Iran Nuke Program
Baghdad Unwinds at Edge of Bridge
Pentagon Eyes Iran, but Takes Tack of Diplomacy
Hayden Hearings to be Battleground
Plan to Deploy Guard at Border Worries Mexico

CENTCOM: News Releases
ANA OPENS BASE, BRINGS STABILITY TO KUNAR PROVINCE

PTS CHIEF, PROVINCIAL LEADERS ADDRESS KUNAR ELDERS

COALITION FORCES CONDUCT RAIDS; DETAIN 8, KILL KNOWN TERRORIST

COALITION FORCES RAID INSURGENT SAFE HAVEN

TERRORISTS KILL 14 IRAQI CITIZENS, INJURE 6

COALITION FORCES DISCOVER WEAPONS CACHE IN PAKTYA PROVINCE

AFGHAN REPORTS CACHE SITE TO ANA, COALITION FORCES

COALITION FORCES RAID TERRORIST SAFE HAVEN

Department of Defense
Terrorists Kill Iraqi Civilians in Baghdad - Story
U.S. Troops Conduct ‘Mother’s Day’ Patrol - Story - On Assignment
Transition Teams Coach, Mentor Iraqis - Story
North Baghdad Council Discusses Security - Story

IN IRAQ
Airmen Enable Iraqi Police Training
4th Infantry Division Troops Can See Kids Graduate

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
‘Soldier Ride’ Takes Off - Story
Mother's Day Away from Home - Story

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Citizen’s Tip Leads to Weapons
Deputy Shares Impressions
Rumsfeld: Conclusions Premature
Coalition Strikes Insurgents
Casey Outlines Signs of Progress
Renewal In Iraq
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (PDF)
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (PDF)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
IED Injures Two Afghan Civilians
U.S. General Notes Progress
Air Strike Kills 4 Enemy Fighters
'Mountain Lion' Roars Into Valley
Afghan Police Discover IED
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
House Votes on Border Security
Submarine USS Memphis Deploys
Rumsfeld Cites Intel Challenges
Guam Unit Trains for OEF Duty
Memorial Honors Va. 9/11 Victims
'Ardent Sentry' Tests Response
N.D. Guard Team Trains for WMDs
Fact Sheet: Budget Request
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
DoD Offers Best Mental Health Services
NWC Prof to Study Terrorism
Top Doc Talks Tricare
National Guard, Reserve Update

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

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1602 - Cape Cod discovered.
1702 - War of Spanish Succession.
1718 - James Puckle patents world's 1st machine gun
1862 - The Confederate cruiser Alabama runs aground near London, the USDA is created, General Benjamin F. Butler directs that the women of New Orleans are to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers.
1864 - Battles in Reseca, GA and New Market, VA.
1882 - Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania.
1902 - Lyman Gilmore becomes the first person to fly a powered craft.
1916 - Asiago, Italy falls.
1940 - First successful helicopter flight in US, German armor division moves into northern France, German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen. Winkelman surrenders, Nazis capture General Persbureau.
1941 - British attacks in Egypt & Libya; Nazis in the Netherlands forbid Jewish music.
1942 - Nazis arrest 2,000 Dutch officers.
1943 - Halifax bombers sink U-463, The Warsaw ghetto uprising ends with the ghetto's destruction.
1944 - 14,000 Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill and George VI meet to discuss plans for D-Day.
1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi-Arabia attack Israel.
1958 - The USSR launches Sputnik III.
1960 - The USSR launches Sputnik IV.
1962 - U.S. marines arrive in Laos.
1963 - Faith 7, the last Project Mercury flight, is launched.
1966 - The South Vietnamese army clashes with Buddhists, killing approximately 80.
1988 - Moscow begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.

Birthdays:
1802 - Confederate Major General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble
1819 - Union Major General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden
1830 - Confederate Brigadier General Laurence Simmons Baker
1859 - Pierre Curie France, physicist, Nobel prize winner
1910 - Robert F. Wagner (Mayor, NYC)
1942 - Anthony Wayne England, Ph.D. /astronaut (STS 51-F)
1949 - Frank L Culbertson Jr , Commander USN/astronaut (STS-38)

Passings:
392 - Valentinianus II emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
1932 - Ki Inukai premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1945 - Major Courtney US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1992 - Robert Morris Page US physicist (radar), dies at 88

Reported Missing in Action:
1961
McMorrow, John P.,USN, Air America medic - Released August, 1962

Shore, Edward R., Jr., US Army, Air America pilot - Released August, 1962

Wolfkill, Grant, civilian (WA), Air America reporter - Released August, 1962

1966
Balcom, Ralph C. USAF (WA) - Negative SAR contact

Jensen, George W. USAF (WA) - Remains returned December, 1999

Madison, William L, USAF (KY) - Remains returned December,1999

McKenney, Kenneth D., USAF (MA) - Remains returned December, 1999

Preston, James A., USAF (GA) - Remains returned - disputed - December, 1999

Reilly, Lavern G., USAF (MN) - Remains returned December, 1999

Tapp, Marshall L. USAF (CA) - Remains returned December, 1999

Thompson, George W., USAF (WV) - Remains returned December, 1999

Williams, James E., USAF (MS) - Remains returned December, 1999

1967
Heiliger, Donald L., USAF (WI), Released by DRV February, 1973, alive and well 1998

Hill, Charles Dale, USN (MO)

Pollard, Ben M., USAF (KY) - Released by DRV March, 1973, alvie and well 1998

1975
Benedett, Daniel A., USMC (WA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Blessing, Lynn, USMC (PA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident; Remains ID'd May, 2000

Boyd, Walter, USMC (VA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident; Remains ID'd May, 2000

Copenhaver, Gregory S., USMC (MD) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident; Remains ID'd May, 2000

Gause, Bernard, Jr., USN (AL) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd June, 2000

Garcia, Andres, USMC (NM), - May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd May, 2000

Hall, Gary L., USMC (KY) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Hargrove, Joseph N., USMC (NC), May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Jacques, James J., USMC (CO), May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Loney, Ashton N., USMC (NY), May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Marshall, Danny G., USMC (WV), May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Manning, Ronald J., USN (OH), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd June, 2000

Maxwell, James R., USMC (AR) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Rivenburgh, Richard W., USMC (CA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Rumbaugh, Elwood E., USAF (PA) - May 1975 Mayaguez incident

Sandoval, Antonio R., USMC (TX), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd May 2000

Turner, Kelton R., USMC (CA), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd May, 2000
Van De Geer, Richard, USAF (OH), May 1975 Mayaguez incident, Remains ID'd June, 2000

1979
Rapp, Jeff - Released July 1979

Smith, Karen - Released July 1979