News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Bombing Kills Three in Baghdad
White House Cautious Over Setting Iraq Troop Timetable
Iraqi VP: Blair, Bush to discuss pullout

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Report: FBI Failed to ID Spy

Other Military News
VA Chief 'Outraged' by Delay in Revealing Vets' ID Theft
FOXNews.com ID Theft Center
China criticizes Pentagon's military report

Immigration
Senate Votes to Limit Debate on Immigration Legislation
Mexico's Vicente Fox in U.S.
Video: Final Senate Vote

NSA / CIA
Leave spy judgements to government: officials

Hamas Rising
PM: Israel Needs 'Partner'
Palestinian factions discuss ways to end crisis

Worldwide Wackos
Envoy says no progress on North Korea talks

Politics
Cheney to Testify?
AG Says Reporters Can Be Prosecuted for Publishing Classified Leaks
Rep. Jefferson Won't Resign
Hastert Not Under Investigation
House leaders demand FBI return documents

Oddities
"I'll have what Spot is having..."
Loving your pets to death
Gas station's shocking sign of times (make sure to check this one out)

Other News of Note
Belarus to ban US, Canadian flights: spokesman
Defense off to rocky start in sniper trial

Fox News
Cops Seek Couple Accused In Grisly Taped Rape, Murder
Video: Manhunt
Possible Human-to-Human Bird Flu Case in Indonesia
FOXNews.com Bird Flu Center
Stocks to Watch: Big Lots
$6.6B Enron Settlement
Gov. Jeb Bush NFL Commish?
Mo. Teacher Accused of Drunken Fondling in School
'American Idol' Center
Video: Taylor Hicks is the next American Idol
Photos: Taylor vs. Katharine
Video: ‘Idols’ Prepare
Speakout! Hicks, McPhee
Video: The Judges

Reuters: Top News
U.S. storm-watching satellite heads into orbit
Giant grass to get larger role in energy supply
PC game spending hit $1.4 bln in US: NPD
World Bank, Microsoft marketing prepaid computers
Britain's surf capital draws die-hard wave riders
Video: Three hurt in cargo area fire at Istanbul airport
New Orleans seen top target for '06 hurricanes
Gambia retrains "bumsters" to shake sex tourism tag
Top FDA staff say left out of contraceptive ruling
"Sleeper effect" of cigarettes can last for years
New wave music impresario Ian Copeland dead at 57
Teenage girls hope for filmstar glory in Cannes
Unlikely trio eye women's French Open crown
Regions agrees to buy AmSouth: WSJ
Vodafone completes $4.55 bln Telsim buy in Turkey
Martha Stewart faces civil suit deadline: NYT
Tate & Lyle profits jump 16 pct, confident on 2006
Microsoft CEO says Vista on track for Jan shipment
Bertelsmann to buy out GBL, IPO off table
Stock futures mixed, GDP data due
LSE shares fall as takeover premium fades: dealers
Lenovo falls 5.88 percent after sharp Q4 loss
Kingspan says 2006 earnings will beat forecasts
Rayong Refinery IPO raises $655 mln, priced at low end
Reuters Summits: Global Energy
Statoil: Iran terms do not lure investment
Statoil still looking for assets in Angola
Oil may top $100 on new supply shortfall

AP World News
Foreign peacekeepers arrive in East Timor
Pope arrives in Poland for 4-day visit
MasterCard prices IPO at $39 per share
Diaw's late basket lifts Suns in Game 1
Study: ADHD drugs send thousands to ERs
Honda says brain waves control robot
Briere, Sabres beat Canes; take 2-1 lead
Park a marriage of recreation, filtration
Case may be first 3-person bird flu chain
Soler settles down, Mets rally past Phils
Mets acquire El Duque from Arizona

Military.com
Guard May Go to Border Next Week
VA Chief Vows Accountability
Annual Fleet Week Begins in NYC
Number of Gays Leaving Military Rises
Virginia's Oceana BRAC Plan Rejected
New Tracks for Bradleys, Abrams Tanks

CENTCOM: News Releases
ANA, COALITION BATTLE ENEMY IN URUZGAN; KILL 24

INVESTIGATION ORDERED INTO ALLEGATION OF MISCONDUCT

Department of Defense
Border Mission Won’t Degrade Readiness - Story
Suicide Bombings Mask Progress in Iraq - Story
Vice President Thanks Sailors, Marines - Story - Remarks
Officials Plan, Define Disaster Response Roles - Story

REBUILDING IRAQ
Co-op Brings New Hope to Iraqi Farmers - Story

ON THE GROUND
Afghan Border Police, Villagers Secure Border - Story
Training Ensures Marines Ready for Combat - Story
Injured by Bombs, Iraqi Gets Prosthetic Hand - Story
Desert Operation Nets Suspects, Weapons - Story

IN IRAQ
Taji Center Stresses Counterinsurgency Ops
Gunners Safer, See Better With New Turrets
Security Mission Unit Keeps Sheikh Informed

IN AFGHANISTAN
Abizaid Visits 'Mountain Lion' Battlefields
U.S. Airmen Help Rebuild a Nation
Coalition Vendor Day Aids Afghan Businesses
Afghan Soldiers Get In-Depth Airdrop Training

FACE OF DEFENSE
Airman's 50th Birthday Begins with Run - Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Memorial Parade to Salute Vets - Story
USAA to Salute Servicemembers - Story
Spouse Career Expo Planned

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Soldier Killed While on Patrol
Coalition Forces Kill 7 Terrorists
ISF Lead Ops in More Areas
Leaders Discuss Security
Unity Government a Turning Point
Too Soon to Announce Withdrawal
Next 100 Days Crucial, Casey Says
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
Forces Kill 24 Enemy Fighters
Afghan Progress Frustrates Taliban
Up to 80 Taliban Believed Killed
Forces Kill 20 Enemy in Firefight
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Rice Comments on Gitmo Closing
Conference Focus: Maritime Ops
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
VA Urges Caution After Data Theft
NATO Secretary General Visits Ship
Sailors Train with USCG for VBSS
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Marine 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

Today in History
585BC - 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
1085 - King Alfonso VI of Castily/León occupy Toledo on Moren
1241 - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1522 - Emperor Karel I returns to Spain
1632 - Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen
1659 - Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector
1660 - English King Charles II lands in Dover
1720 - "Le Grand St. Antoine" reaches Marseille, plague kills 80,000
1721 - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1784 - Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
1787 - Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1793 - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st US Roman Catholic priest ordained
1810 - Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (National Day)
1812 - Earthquake destroys Caracas Venezuela
1844 - 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1861 - John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus; it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting the writ
1862 - Battle of Winchester, VA
1864 - Battle of New Hope Church, GA
1887 - Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1895 - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite
1898 - 1st US troop transport to Manila leaves San Fransisco
1900 - Eyre M. Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
1911 - Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz
1914 - British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1915 - 2nd Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
1919 - Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1923 - Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader
1927 - Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1928 - Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
1935 - Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
1937 - 1st airmail letter to circle the globe returns to New York
1940 - German troops conquer Boulogne; Golden Gate International Expo reopens
1941 - 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
1943 - Riot at Mobile, AL shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers; Trident conference in Washington, DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1944 - Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia
1945 - Arther C. Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
1946 - Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan; Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1947 - Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Company's Mine #5 killing 111
1949 - Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
1950 - Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1953 - 1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat NV
1955 - Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall KS & most of Blackwell OK
1959 - Khrushchev visits Angola; Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
1962 - US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1963 - Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
1964 - Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitutional
1965 - India & Pakistan border fights
1966 - Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1968 - Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
1969 - Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup
1973 - Argentine Peronist Hector Cámpora installed as president
1973 - US launches 1st Skylab; crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
1978 - "Star Wars" released
1979 - American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275; Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
1981 - Daniel Goodwin, scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1982 - Iranian troops reconquer Khorramshar
1983 - "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released; 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed; Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357
1985 - Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 - Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed; Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York; Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
1989 - Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1991 - Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
1992 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy

Birthdays
1550 - Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint
1713 - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63)
1781 - Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este/Governor-General (Sicily)
1852 - Louis Franchet d'Espèrey [Desperate Frankey], French marshal (WWI)
1865 - Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18); John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946); Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
1886 - Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
1889 - Igor Sikorsky developed a working helicopter
1892 - Josip Broz Tito Kumrovec, leader of Yugoslavia (1945-80)
1907 - U Nu, Premier of Burma (1948-58, 1960-62)
1932 - Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
1934 - Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
1943 - Wynand C. Malan, South African lawyer/NP/DP-politician
1949 - Jamaica Kincaid [Elaine P. Richardson], Antigua/US journalist (New Yorker)

Passings
0615 - Boniface IV, Pope (608-15)
0709 - Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 69
0946 - Edmund the Older, King of Wessex/England (939-46)
1085 - Gregory VII [Ildebrando], Pope (1073-85)
1125 - Hendrik V, last Salische German King
1261 - Alexander IV [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61)
1510 - Georges d'Amboise French cardinal/viceroy in North Italy, dies at 49
1849 - Andreas Michiels, Dutch Military Governor of West Sumatra, dies in battle at 52
1895 - Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish minister of Justice, dies at 73
1926 - Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
1949 - Simon H. Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WWII), dies at 47
1968 - George KFW von Küchler, German marshal (Netherlands 1940), dies at 86
1986 - Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
1992 - Philip C. Habib, US diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72; Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78
1996 - David W Howe test pilot, dies at 77
1997 - Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Harnawee, Tha Chan "Chip," Thai Special Forces / Air America (Thailand); released September, 1974 - alive and well as of 1998

1967
Graves, Richard C., USNR (MA); A1H crashed

1969
Weitz, Monek, USMC (MA); KIA / BNR

Williams, Leroy C., USMC (FL); KIA / BNR

1970
Springman, Richard Harold, US Army (CA); released by PRG February, 1973 - alive as of 1996

1972
Strong, Henry H., USN (PA); A4F shot down