Iraq Blast Kills Two On Crew For CBS  —  Reporter Wounded; Dozens Are Dead In Other Attacks  —  BAGHDAD, May 29 — A car bomb explosion in central Baghdad Monday killed two CBS News crew members, an Iraqi interpreter and a U.S. soldier, and severely wounded the news team's correspondent …

President Bush Honors Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Laura and I are honored to join you today.  Thank you for coming.  Mr. Secretary, thank you for your kind words.  Members of my Cabinet, General Pace, Members of Congress …

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.

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.

Afghans Riot After Deadly Crash by U.S. Military Truck  —  KABUL, Afghanistan, May 29 — A deadly traffic accident caused by a United States military convoy quickly escalated into a full-blown anti-American riot that raged across much of the Afghan capital on Monday, leaving at least 14 people dead and scores injured.

Washington Whispers  —  The CIA's class of '85 must have been a doozy.  Three alumni of that year's fall career training class are much in the news these days.  There's Valerie Plame, the now retired spy whose outing is being investigated by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

French youths clash with police in Paris suburbs  —  PARIS (Reuters) - Around a hundred youths clashed with police during the night after setting fire to cars and rubbish bins in a Paris suburb that was the scene of violent riots last November, a local official said on Tuesday.

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.

Memorial Day  —  DOES REMEMBRANCE matter?  The Greek playwright Aeschylus was the author of dozens of works, and while most of them are lost to us, his "Oresteia" trilogy and "Seven Against Thebes" are among those that survive as jewels of world literature.

Bush's Talk And Results On AIDS  —  The Bush administration's critics should give credit where it's due.  And when it comes to the global AIDS crisis, it is due — big-time.  —  Five years ago, the U.S. government's total contribution to fighting HIV-AIDS abroad stood at $840 million.

Democrats Eye November Landslide  —  Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking _ each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.  —  First step: Voters must focus on the national landscape on Nov. 7 rather than local issues and personalities that usually dominate midterm elections.

Gore in Hay climate change plea  —  Former US vice-president Al Gore owned up to failing to get his climate change message across as a politician when he appeared at the Hay Festival.  —  In his first UK speech on the subject, Mr Gore promised to devote himself to the task of warning people about the impending "planetary emergency".

Memorial Day Truth: There Is No "War on Terror"  —  There is no "War on Terror."  —  There is, however, a "war" on the U. S. Constitution.  —  After September 11, 2001, we've learned that we can take a punch and move on.  We've faced far worse threats to our national survival in our history …