News of Note
Israel at War
Report: Fourth Israeli Soldier Kidnapped North of Tel Aviv
Israel Decimates Hezbollah Stronghold
Americans Confront Anxiety of War
Humanitarian Effort Focuses On Victims of Conflict in Middle East
Some Americans Brave Trip to Israel
Video: Not Ready for Cease-Fire
Photo Essay: Israel, Hezbollah Battle Heats Up
Army Officer Says Israel Does Not Want to Attack Syria
Israeli air raids kill 50 - Video
US begins Lebanon evacuation (and, believe it or not, people are complaining about the fact that the evacuation ships weren't cushy enough)
Israeli warplanes kill 19 in Lebanon
US Ramps Up Evacuation Plans
Israeli Ground Troops Enter Lebanon
Israel Takes to Air to Cripple Hezbollah

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Gunmen kill 3 in new market raid near Baghdad - Video
Iraq civilian toll spikes to nearly 6,000
Video: Blasts hit Baghdad university
Iraqis Dismiss Split, Approve of Al-Maliki

Operation Enduring Freedom
Soldiers Retake Afghan Town From Taliban

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Homeland Security Accused of Credit Card Misuse

Troops on Trial
Midshipman Testifies About 'Sex Gone Bad'

Other Military News
Navy Looks Into Death of Sailor

Immigration / Border Control
Immigrant Sweep Snags 58 at Fort Bragg

NSA / CIA
Bush blocked eavesdropping program probe

Politics / Government
Senate OKs Funding Stem Cell Research, Faces Veto
Bush to cast his first veto on stem-cell bill - Video
McKinney heads to runoff in Georgia
House Rejects Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage
Lieberman Rival Seeks Support Beyond Iraq Issue (this campaign is UGLY)

Hurricane Season / Wild Weather / Mother Nature
Tropical Storm Beryl Forms Off North Carolina Coast
Tropical Storm Beryl prompts storm watch
Tropical storm not expected to hit N.C.
U.S. Heat Wave Turns Deadly- Photo Essay: Hot, Hot, Hot
Heat wave ebbs in parts of U.S.
3 arrested in New Orleans hospital deaths
Katrina audit shows fraud, abuse
Over 100 feared dead in N. Korea floods
Fear sparks scramble as Java tsunami toll at 550 - Video
Indonesian Tsunami Kills 463- Photo Essay: Deadly Tsunami
Red Cross: N. Korean Floods and Landslides Kill Over 100

News from My Neck of the Woods
Massachusetts teenager dies on hike
Investigations into Big Dig failure spread

Oddities
Hey! Who turned me in?
And the top prize in Hungary uprising quiz is...

Other News of Note
Cruise Ship Mishap Injures 84
Outage Grounds Calif. Flights

Fox News
Disney to Slash 650 Jobs
Stocks to Watch: Yahoo
S.D. Sioux Leader Ousted Again in Abortion Clinic Flap

Reuters: Top News
Oil price spike "very uncomfortable": OPEC - Video
Bernanke seen yielding few clues on rates
China eyes exploration of Mars: Xinhua
Matsushita steps up plasma HDTV drive
ATT launches Homezone TV and Internet service
Catholic priests become sought-after Polish export
Engineers put earthquake-proof houses to the test
Marriott to make all US, Canada hotels non-smoking
Southwest Air profit rises
ASML beats forecast in Q2 with record net profit
Rhoen-Klinikum Q2 operating profit misses forecast
No BETonSPORTS deal with U.S. prosecutor - source
Google falls on Inet after Yahoo disappointment
Wall Street set to open mixed
Yahoo shares fall on Inet after earnings
IBM shares rise after earnings report
Inside the PBW mandate
Investing in affluence

AP World News
Hayek an exec on ABC show 'Ugly Betty'
Yahoo 2Q profit meets analysts' estimates
Jones helps Braves match 1930 record
Meth still No. 1 drug problem, study finds
ABC vows stronger 'Housewives' season
Konerko goes deep twice as White Sox win
Smith fired, Snow hired as Islanders GM
Unpaid taxes could be Bonds' downfall
Pamela Anderson, Kid Rock to tie the knot
IBM 2Q earnings beat analysts' forecasts
Dow closes up 52, Nasdaq finishes up 6
Customers pan 'healthy' potato chips
Beaufort woman charged with killing baby

Military.com
Elite Training Sharpens Unit's Lethal Skills

CENTCOM: News Releases
IRAQI CITIZEN, SOLDIERS FOIL TERRORISTS' PLANS

AFGHAN, COALITION FORCES CONTINUE SUCCESSFUL MOUNTAIN THRUST OPERATION

IRAQI FORCES CAPTURE INSURGENT IN BAGHDAD

IRAQI FORCES CAPTURE INSURGENT IN MOSUL

IRAQI, MND-B SOLDIERS UNCOVER WEAPONS CACHE

BRIDGE TARGETED BY EXTREMISTS

EXTREMISTS ATTACK WEDDING PARTY

EXTREMISTS PREMATURELY DETONATE IED

ROCKETS IMPACT GIRLS' SCHOOL

SECURITY ESTABLISHED IN NARWA; COALITION MEETS WITH ELDERS

EXTREMISTS LINKED TO DRUG TRADE

Department of Defense
Cheney Praises National Guard Contributions - Story
For More Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Soldiers Expand Forward Operating Base - Story
New School and Textile Mill Boost Economy - Story
Ammo Specialists Keep Brigade Safe - Story

IN IRAQ
Soldiers Destroy Terrorist Safe-route
Iraqi Communities Benefit From Projects
Iraqi Forces Assume Security Responsibility

IN AFGHANISTAN
'Ammo' Airmen Arm Bagram's Warfighters
Troops Coordinate Delivery of Supplies
Afghans, Coalition Conduct Medical Clinics

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

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty - 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

Gitmo

Today in History
1510 - Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin, Prussia.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey (who is 15 at the time) is deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1816 - After more than two weeks, survivors of the French frigate Medusa are rescued off Senegal.
1848 - The first women's rights convention opens in NY.
1860 - The first railroad reaches Kansas
1862 - Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest conducts his first raid.
1870 - The Franco-Prussian war begins.
1918 - German armies retreat across the Marne River in France.
1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit.
1941 - The first US Army flying school for black cadets is dedicted in Tuskegee, AL ; British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign; President Roosevelt appoints the FEP Committee.
1943 - Allied air forces raid Rome.
1949 - Laos becomes and associated state within the French Union.
1957 - The first rocket with a nuclear warhead is fired (Yucca Flat, NV).
1963 - NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker takes the X-15 to an altitude of 105 km.
1967 - The U.S. launches Explorer 35 for a lunar orbit.
1969 - Apollo 11 goes into a Moon orbit.
1980 - The 22nd modern Olympic games open in Moscow; the U.S. and 59 others do not attend, boycotting in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1989 - United flight 232 crashes in Iowa.

Birthdays
1814 - Samuel Colt, inventor (Colt revolver)
1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, Union Army nurse
1860 - Lizzie Borden, alleged murderer
1922 - George McGovern (Sen-SD), presidential candidate (1972)
1943 - Roy D. Bridges, Jr. , Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 51F, STS 61F)
1952 - Howard Donald Saunders, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

Passings
1940 - Samuel H. Chang American newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai.
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car after it plunges off Dike Bridge in Chappaquiddick, MA.

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Diamond, Stephen Whitman USAF (NY); F105 shot down; SRV returned remains March, 1977

Dennison, Terry A., USN (WA); F8E shot down, remains returned March, 1974

Winters, Darryl G., USAF (CA); photograhper aboard F100F shot down

1967
Frye, Donald P., USN (CA); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, remains returned October, 1982

Jackson, William B., USN (TX); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, remains returned October, 1982

McGrane, Donald P., USN (IA); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, remains returned October, 1982

Peterson, Dennis W., USN (CA); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, body not recovered

1969
Martin, Aubrey Grady, USN (TX); OV10A shot down, remains recovered July, 1974

Sikkink, Roy Dean, USN (OK); OV10A shot down, remains recovered July, 1969