Source: Paulson replaces Snow at Treasury  —  WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary John Snow has resigned and will be replaced by Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr., a senior administration official said Tuesday, in another chapter of a White House shake-up to revive President Bush's troubled presidency.

Iraq Becomes Deadliest of Modern Wars for Journalists  —  By some reckonings, the death of two journalists working for CBS News on Monday firmly secured the Iraq war as the deadliest conflict for reporters in modern times.  —  Since the start of the war in 2003, 71 journalists have been killed in Iraq …

Reid Accepted Free Boxing Tickets While a Related Bill Was Pending  —  Senate Democratic Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing.

"We Are Determined"  —  SPIEGEL: Mr. President, you are a soccer fan and you like to play soccer.  Will you be sitting in the stadium in Nuremberg on June 11, when the Iranian national team plays against Mexico in Germany?  —  Ahmadinejad: It depends.  Naturally, I'll be watching the game in any case.

U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, May 29 — The U.S. military said Monday it was deploying the main reserve fighting force for Iraq, a full 3,500-member armored brigade, as emergency reinforcements for the embattled western province of Anbar, where a surge of violence linked …

Clinton Is A Politician Not Easily Defined  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton has fashioned a political persona that generates intense passions but defies easy characterization.  She is viewed as a hawk on Iraq and national security, stamped as a big-government Democrat for her work on health care in the 1990s …

Talk of Pelosi as Speaker Delights Both Parties  —  WASHINGTON, May 29 — Hoping to win a Congressional majority in November, some optimistic Democratic lawmakers have taken to referring to Representative Nancy Pelosi as "speaker," as in speaker of the House.  So have some optimistic Republicans.

The Pope's Disastrous Speech at Auschwitz  —  hen the white smoke told the world that Josef Ratzinger had been elected pope, it took some of us a moment or two to get our minds around the idea that the College of Cardinals had elevated a childhood member of the Hitler Youth to one of the world's leading positions of moral leadership.

Regime Commandos & Hezbollah Thugs Pound Iranian Protesters  —  Four are dead from weekend protest violence in northwest Iran.  Authorities called in the "Yegane Bizhe" special guard, which differs from other troops because of the cruelty it uses to suppress demonstrators...  But, still the protests continue!

THE AGITATOR  —  "Yesterday, I was hysterical," the Italian journalist and novelist Oriana Fallaci said.  She was telling me a story about a local dog owner and the liberties he'd allowed his animal to take in front of Fallaci's town house, on the Upper East Side.  Big mistake.

Accident Sparks Riot in Afghan Capital  —  Mobs Rampage After Fatal Crash Involving U.S. Military Truck; Curfew Imposed  —  KABUL, May 29 — The Afghan capital erupted Monday in the worst street violence since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, following a fatal traffic accident involving a U.S. military truck.

New Policy Adviser Admits Altering Text  —  Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush's new domestic policy adviser, acknowledged he did something wrong when he took a newspaper profile of himself, altered quotes and text, and then posted it on a Web site without noting the changes.

The Catastrophe Wasn't Katrina  —  The evidence, by now, is overwhelming: Beautiful, decadent New Orleans wasn't doomed by Hurricane Katrina but by decades of human incompetence and neglect.  As far as the drowned city is concerned, the greatest natural disaster in the nation's history …