Donors say Lieberman will be well-funded  —  Supporters of Israel from both parties will be crucial to senator's effort  —  Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., campaigning last Thursday in Waterbury, Conn., a city he won with 60 percent of the vote in last week's primary.  —  WASHINGTON -

2 Fox News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza  —  Palestinian gunmen ambushed a car carrying a Fox News crew in Gaza City on Monday and kidnapped two of the journalists inside, according to witnesses and Fox.  "We can confirm that two of our people were taken against their will in Gaza," Fox News said in a statement.

Bush Says Israel Defeated Hezbollah  —  President Bush said Monday that Hezbollah guerillas suffered a defeat at the hands of Israel in their monthlong Mideast war.  —  "There's going to be a new power in the south of Lebanon," Bush said.  —  The president also said the war was part …

Sen. Allen's Remarks Spark Ire  —  Democrat James Webb's Senate campaign accused Sen. George Allen (R) of making demeaning comments Friday to a 20-year-old Webb volunteer of Indian descent.  —  S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, had been trailing Allen with a video camera …

Press Briefing by Tony Snow  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  MR. SNOW: Let me run you through a bit of what's going on with the President's day.  Then we will get to questions.  First, let me — I'll run through the President's day.  —  He is meeting right …

Pres.  Ahmadinejad trying to infect Israelis with web viruses?  —  Information forwarded to me:  —  The Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, has opened his very own blog.  You can read the news here.  Wouldn't it be nice to pay him a visit and tell him what you think about his terror-supporting regime?

The Storm Before the Calm  —  The events in this essay took place on August 11 and 12.  —  METULLA, ISRAEL - Israel scrapped the proposed ceasefire agreement on August 11 and launched a full-scale ground invasion of Lebanon.  Presumably the Israeli Defense Forces wanted to rapidly snap …

Plot Shows Rise of Extremism in Europe  —  Britain's struggle to contain Muslim extremism points up a chilling trend across Europe: the rise of radical Islam, and with it, a willingness among a small but dangerous minority of young people to answer the call to jihad.

IRAN'S PRES.  AHMADINEJAD LAUNCHES HIS OWN BLOG  —  Not satisfied with the Tehran regime's attacks on websites and bloggers — a number of whom have been jailed — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (photo left) has now started his own blog.  Reuters reported yesterday that Ahmadinejad …

Poll: Americans Back Air Restrictions  —  CBS Survey: 75% Say Ban On Liquids And Gels Is Necessary  —  (CBS) Americans are signaling strong support for air travel restrictions in the wake of last week's foiled terror plot in Britain, a CBS News poll finds.

Wimmin at War  —  It is 25 years since the Greenham Common protests began.  Sarah Baxter was there, but now asks why feminist ideals have become twisted into support for groups like Hezbollah  —  When Ann Pettitt, the mother of two young children, and her friends set off in August 25 years ago …

Ease of Alteration Creates Woes for Picture Editors  —  The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated pictures he took for Reuters has raised questions about the standards of photojournalism at a time of widespread digital photography.

Conflict of Interest or Legitimate Punditry?  You Decide.  —  A Loop Fan writes: "Please explain to your readers how a government official who is paid by hard-earned taxpayer dollars is allowed to moonlight as a Republican mouthpiece on television."  —  The anonymous inquiry included a photo …

Army can't disarm Hezbollah fighters  —  IT was supposed to be the day the maligned Lebanese army took control of the country's borders and policed the UN ceasefire.  —  Instead, the military commanders were left humiliated and troops stranded as Hezbollah told them not to disarm its fighters.

Raul Castro: Cocaine Connection?  —  Brian Ross and Vic Walter Report:  —  Federal prosecutors in Miami were prepared to indict Raul Castro as the head of a major cocaine smuggling conspiracy in 1993, but the Clinton Administration Justice Department overruled them, current and former Justice Department officials tell ABC News.

Media Matters to CNN: Will anchor Roberts be disciplined for suggesting Lamont is "the Al Qaeda candidate"?  —  Dear Messrs.  Klein and Santos:  —  I am writing to express my great concern over an incident that occurred on your network Friday, August 11, 2006.

Is the Bush Doctrine Dead?  —  In recent months, we have been bombarded with reports of the death of the Bush Doctrine.  Of course, there have been many such reports since the doctrine was first promulgated at the start of what I persist in calling World War IV (the cold war being World War III).