News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Missing GIs Found Dead
REMAINS BELIEVED TO BE MISSING SOLDIERS LOCATED
Uncle Blasts U.S. Government
Group: Al Qaeda Responsible
21,000 Notified of Deployment
Saddam's Weak Line of Defense - Saddam Lawyer Found Dead
AP: Iraqi troops killed 2 U.S. soldiers

Operation Enduring Freedom
COALITION KILLS MORE TALIBAN INSURGENTS
COALITION SOLDIER KILLED IN KANDAHAR PROVINCE
AFGHAN NATIONAL POLICE DEFEND DISTRICT CENTER, KILL SIX EXTREMISTS
TALIBAN EXTREMISTS CONTINUE TO TARGET SCHOOLS FOR DESTRUCTION

Homeland Security / War on Terror
New Al Qaeda Video Shows Alleged 20th Sept. 11 Hijacker

Other Military News
National Guard Arrives in N.O.

Immigration / Border Control
GOP House: Broad immigration bill unlikely

Worldwide Wackos
Compromise in Pyongyang
Report: U.S. Activates Missile Defense Over N. Korea
U.S. weighs shootdown of N. Korea missile
Video: Video: Defense Showdown
N. Korea: We Have the Right
Bush tries to strengthen EU resolve on Iran - Video
Mexico election could put leftist on US doorstep

Media in the Media
Rather leaves CBS in bitter end to 44 years

Politics / Government
House Considers Voting Rights Act Amendments
US House clears $427.6 billion for Pentagon
Japan, U.S. agree on beef import resumption
Group: Sierra Club invests in state races

In the Courts
Jury Finds Safavian Guilty in Abramoff Scandal Trial
Court: Judge erred in sex offender case

Oddities
Judge: Cat Gets Life Indoors
For once, a bad boss could be a good thing...
Wife accused in swordplay death of husband

Other News of Note
Employee Data Stolen From Top Credit-Info Agency
Heat ride Wade to NBA Finals victory
Small arms: the global trade in life and death

Fox News
Stocks to Watch: FedEx
Waves Lash Central America
Episcopalian Leaders Reject Ban on Gay Bishops
England Wins Group With Tie
FULL WORLD CUP COVERAGE

Reuters: Top News
US Presbyterian church opens door to gay clergy
Texas man executed for 1999 triple murder
Three million babies born after fertility treatment
Sex abuse trial opens for gene therapy pioneer
Microsoft sees future in robots
MySpace bolsters defenses, faces sex predator suit
Food movement in US encourages local buying
Diabetes rate doubled in last 30 years
Nonprofit health care often better: study
N.Y. film festivals proliferate
Arctic Monkeys' bass player quits the band
Mittal faces pressure to up Arcelor bid
Traditional media rules retail -- for now
Euronext, Deutsche Boerse sights on Borsa Italiana
NEC in talks to sell part of Europe PC operations
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telefonica to get 1.75 bln euros for Endemol-paper
MEDIA: ITV raises cash return to 500 mln stg
Stocks seen flat
Neurochem stock falls after analyst report
Final Michaels Stores bids due Wednesday: source
Ericsson shares close up on outlook rumor
Nikkei flat as Sony falls, KDDI advances
REUTERS SUMMIT: CONSUMER & RETAIL
Traditional media rules retail: for now
Licensors keep an eye on China, India
Staples eyes $1 billion in China sales

AP World News
East Timor PM said will likely resign
Celebrity chef Ramsay wins libel damages
Melanoma deadlier in blacks and Hispanics
Southwest to test assigned seating
Visa says ATM breach may have exposed data
Despite tie, England wins World Cup group
Shatner, Brokaw, Regis to join TV Hall
NBA fines Mavericks' Cuban $250,000
NASA safety chief against launch decision
Hasselhoff: Cowell said 'Be a judge'
Firefighters battle wildfire in Arizona
Man pleads not guilty in minivan plunge
Ohio police testing fetus for DNA

Military.com
Teen Raises Money to Help Servicemembers

CENTCOM: News Releases
COALITION FORCES DETAIN SENIOR AL-QAIDA IN IRAQ NETWORK MEMBER

COALITION FORCES KILL 15 TERRORISTS, DETAIN THREE OTHERS

Department of Defense
ON THE GROUND
Coast Guard, Navy, FBI Team Up for Exercise - Story
Secure Environment Essential to Iraq’s Future - Commentary
Task Force Rebuilds School, Clinic in Yemen - Story
Soldiers Upgrade Humvees With New Armor - Story
Afghan Officers Complete Course - Story
Afghan Villagers Get Medical Care - Story

IN IRAQ
Army Reservists Assemble 'FOB in the Box'
Renovated Yusufiyah Playground Reopens
Macedonian Troops Praised at Transfer Ceremony
Australian Navy Cools Down the Oil Platforms
Civil Affairs Soldiers Help Baghdad Citizens

IN AFGHANISTAN
Squadron Monitors Sky Over Afghanistan
U.S. Army MPs Mentor Afghan National Police
Engineer Reflects on Second Afghan Deployment

BACKGROUND
IRAQ
Renewal In Iraq
Iraq: Security, Stability
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
Weekly Reconstruction Report
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
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

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army 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
1498 - Emperor Maximillian expells Jews Nurenberg, Bavaria.
1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican views.
1684 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter is revoked.
1788 - The U.S. Constitution goes into effect as NH becomes the 9th to ratify it.
1805 - Great Stoneface Mt is found in NH.
1893 - The first Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition.
1919 - Germans scuttle their own fleet.
1943 - Federal troops put down a racial riot in Detroit that leaves 30 dead.
1962 - USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 75,190 m.
1968 - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns.
1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth.
1985 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil are those of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele.
1989 - The Supreme Court rules it legal to burn the U.S. flag as a political expression.
1990 - The U.S. House of Reps fails to pass a bill to stop U.S. flag burning.

Birthdays
1732 - Martha Washington, first U.S. First Lady
1774 - Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th U.S. Vice President
1851 - Daniel Carter Beard, organized the first Boy Scout troop
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher/writer, declined Nobel Prize
1931 - Lawrence K. Grossman, NBC News president
1942 - William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. Assistant Attorney General
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, first female leader of a Muslim nation (Pakistan)
1982 - Prince William of Wales

Passings
1876 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (Alamo)
1973 - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame football coach

Reported Missing in Action
1964
Johnson, Edward R., US Army (PA); Released in Cambodia November, 1976 - deceased

1966
Black, Cole, USN (MN); F8E shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998

Eastman, Leonard C., USN (MA); RF8A shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998

Sullivan, John B., USAF (PA); F105D shot down, remains returned September, 1990

1967
Spinler, Darrell J., USAF (MN); A1E shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1968
Wadleigh, Carl D., US Army; AWOL

1971
Metzler, Charles D., USN (CA); F8J shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1972
Callaghan, Peter A., USAF (NY); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive as of 1998

Rose, George A., USAF (MO); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998