Marine Names Murtha in Defamation Suit  —  Congressman Discussed Killings Involving Serviceman's Squad in Haditha, Iraq  —  A Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in federal court in Washington claiming …

Hizbollah bombards northern Israel  —  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas bombarded northern Israel with rockets and fought up to 6,000 Israeli troops in Lebanon on Wednesday after Israel vowed to pursue the war until a strong international force arrived.

9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon  —  Allegations Brought to Inspectors General  —  Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort …

Evolution's foes lose ground in Kansas  —  Darwin's defenders increase their strength on Board of Education  —  TOPEKA, Kan. - Conservative Republicans who approved classroom standards that called evolution into question lost control of the state Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election.

Ex-Aide: Harris Hid Subpoena  —  More from this channel:  —  This feature requires the Macromedia Flash Plugin.  Please visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/ getflashplayer to download this plugin.  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris received a grand jury subpoena …

White House Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts  —  A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban …

Ailing Castro steps aside  —  HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro stepped down temporarily for the first time, leaving many Cubans on Tuesday nervously contemplating a future without the communist U.S. foe who has dominated political life for nearly 50 years.

One War  —  In its war on terror, the U.S. would never accept the limits being pushed on Israel.  —  WASHINGTON—On Sept. 11, 2001, a freedom-loving nation was attacked by a terrorist organization operating from the territory of a sovereign state with the acquiescence, if not the active complicity, of the latter's government.

Hill fries free to be French again  —  The fries on Capitol Hill are French again.  —  So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation "freedom."  —  Three years after House Republicans trumpeted the new names …

We must rethink the War on Terror - Blair  —  Read Blair speech in full  —  FIVE years into the War on Terror, Tony Blair called yesterday for a "complete renaissance of our strategy" to defeat militant Islam.  —  Speaking in Los Angeles, the Prime Minister admitted that the use of force alone …

Mel Gibson, Conservatives & The Cult of Celebrity  —  The Gibson mug shot.  —  Disney has unsurprisingly cancelled Mel Gibson's Holocaust TV series that he had in development.  [The Reuters article obnoxiously states: "The actor ... holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views."

Mideast Lessons From 1973  —  Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East, I find myself looking backward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973.  —  That long-ago war, like the current one in Lebanon, began with an Arab sneak attack …

'I Have Had an Abortion,' Mag Asks Women to Declare  —  (CNSNews.com) - Ms. Magazine's latest pro-abortion message invites women and girls who have undergone the procedure to submit their names for inclusion in the magazine and sign an online petition stating that "I have had an abortion."

Long-range rocket lands near Jenin  —  Some of long-range rockets fired at Israel Wednesday land across Green Line, in West Bank area - most southern point Hizbullah has managed to hit so far.  Police sappers believe rockets made in Syria  —  Ali waked  —  Some of the long range rockets …

Iraq vows security takeover this year  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that Iraqi forces will assume security duties for the whole country by the end of the year, taking over responsibility from U.S. and other foreign troops now policing all but one of the 18 provinces.

'Potentially incendiary' at the Brooklyn Public Library  —  This spring, in my capacity as publisher of Encounter Books, I had the honor to publish Melanie Phillips's book Londonistan, a brilliant, but also harrowing, look at the ways in which radical Islam has established itself in England.

Democrats Scrambling To Organize Voter Turnout  —  Top Democrats are increasingly concerned that they lack an effective plan to turn out voters this fall, creating tension among party leaders and prompting House Democrats to launch a fundraising effort aimed exclusively at mobilizing Democratic partisans.