News of Note
Israel at War
Israel Continues Assault on Lebanese Bridges
Rice to promote peace plan
Bush to Syria: Join Us
U.S. Boosts Aid to Lebanese Military
Rice to Return to Mideast
An American in Beirut: War Doesn't Stop For the Weekend
Video: New Escalation?
Video: Hezbollah Providing Relief
Israel shuns UN truce plea
Lebanese ladies pick up brooms as dustmen flee war
Hezbollah politicians back peace package
Rice pleased by Lebanese Cabinet's efforts
Hezbollah Launches New Kind of Rocket
Bush, Blair urge multinational force
Israeli planes pound targets in Lebanon

Operation Iraqi Freedom
3 Marines Killed in Anbar;2 Sunni Mosques Attacked

Operation Enduring Freedom
COALITION ENGAGES EXTREMISTS IN HELMAND PROVINCE

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Bogus Names Feared on N.J. Sept. 11 Attacks Monument
Gunman Shoots 6 at Seattle Jewish Center; 1 Killed (Note his motivation when you read this)
Somali murder linked to "international terror": PM

Other Military News
WWII Fighter Pilot Ace Besby Holmes Dies

NSA / CIA
Former NSA Officer Subpoenaed in Leak Probe

Worldwide Wackos
U.N. Gives Iran August Nuke Program Deadline
'Pizza' to Be Called 'Elastic Loaves' in Iranian Word Ban (MMMMM, yummy...I can't stop giggling over this one)
North Korea Wants U.S. Sanctions Dropped (Yeah - and I want a million dollars)

Homegrown Moonbats
Texas town disturbed by Sheehan, protests (And now Mother Moonbat OWNS land there...)

Politics / Government
House OKs Min. Wage Bill
Rice heads to "difficult" Middle East talks
House approves pension overhaul bill

Mother Nature
Death toll in California heat wave up to 126
Hundreds evacuated from Ohio flooding

News from My Neck of the Woods
Farm crisis threatens New England's bucolic image
AP: Priest may have misspent $1.4 million

Oddities
Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark...
April Fool's joke sparks strip poker championship

Other News of Note
China's growing pollution reaches U.S.

Fox News
Man Finds 188-Year-Old King James Bible in Dump Bin
Prisoner: I Killed 49 People

Reuters: Top News
Sudan govt forces attack Darfur rebel bases: sources
Pro-Lebanese protesters fight with Australia police
EU drone crashes in Congo as election looms
Sri Lanka bombs Tigers for fourth day, 7 dead
Indonesia oil well explodes, thousands evacuated
AIDS virus may hide in the gut: study
Net closes on conger cuddling
Microsoft fails to quash Vista fears
The9 says hit game is still in its youth
Venom protein may lead to brain cancer cure- study
Study debunks birth season-autism risk link
1970s sex symbol Barbeau recounts life in new book
CBS appeals fine for Janet Jackson breast flashing
Jobs, more data and profits to drive stocks
Microchip stocks rally as investors sense bottom
Clothier Volcom shares fall after downgrade
Christopher & Banks raising payout 50 percent
Stocks soar as GDP report sparks rate hopes - Video
Retreat in transport stocks bodes well
The Reuters Select wrap-up
Finding the right adviser
Behind the buyback boom -- what you need to know
Investors warn against war on guidance
Poison pills become slightly less bitter
TD Banknorth wants to double size, helped by mergers
Wal-Mart quits Germany, sells stores to Metro
Celestica stock surges after earnings, outlook
Satellite, traditional radio join in royalty fight

AP World News
Face transplant patient leaves hospital
Studio head calls Lohan 'unprofessional'
Landis says he'll prove his innocence
Authorities weigh drug that stops overdose
Mel Gibson arrested on suspicion of DUI
Friends stunned by Colo. killer's crimes
Study: Students find ways to safely drink
Pfizer's Kindler replaces McKinnell as CEO
Scientists identify 2 ancient reptiles
4 white-supremacists convicted of murder
Rangers trade for slugger Carlos Lee
Obituaries in the news

Military.com
F-22A Set for Showdown in Congress

CENTCOM: News Releases
33 TERRORISTS KILLED IN DAYLONG BATTLE WITH ISF, MND-B SOLDIERS

MND-B SOLDIERS FIND, DISARM IEDS

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
World Must Stop Lebanon Fight - Story
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Airmen Work to Ensure Planes Meet Mission - Story
Iraqis Receive Excavation Equipment - Story
Battalion Helps Iraqis Take the Lead - Story

IN IRAQ
Soldiers Join Noncommissioned Officer Corps
British Regiment Gets Hometown Treat

IN AFGHANISTAN
New Command Oversees Military Doctrine
Airmen Control Skies Over Dangerous Areas
Stops in 'Hot' Zone Require Quick Off-loads

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 (PDF)
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

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

Gitmo

Today in History
1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
1588 - The Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I.
1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day).
1830 - In France, a revolution Charles X with Louis Philippe.
1862 - Confederate forces are defeated at More's Hill, MO.
1868 - The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to ex-slaves.
1900 - In Connecticut, Louis Lassing creates the Hamburger.
1914 - Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia, officially beginning WW I.
1931 - Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" the U.S. National Anthem.
1942 - Nazis murder 10,000 Jews in Minsk, Russia.
1943 - Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns; FDR announces the end of U.S. coffee rationing.
1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building, 14 die; the U.S. Senate ratifies the UN charter 89-2
1962 - Mariner I is launched for Mars; it plummets into the Atlantic Ocean.
1964 - Ranger 7 is launched toward the Moon; it sends back 4308 TV pictures.
1977 - Oil first flows through the Alaska pipeline.
1986 - NASA releases the transcript from the doomed Challenger Space Shuttle.
1988 - Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for the first Israeli visit in 21 years.
1990 - A blackout hits Chicago.

Birthdays
1165 - Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher
1746 - Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Declaration of Independence
1859 - Balington Booth, founded Volunteers of America
1907 - Earl S. Tupper inventor of Tupperware
1929 - Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady
1961 - Scott E. Parazynski, MD/astronaut

Passings
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist
1746 - John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st Amendment fight
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue)
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary/avocat, guillotined

Reported Missing in Action
1966
McSwain, George P., USN (CA); A4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive in 1998