LIEBERMAN AND RUMSFELD  —  I've really got no dog in the whole Lieberman/Lamont fight.  I live in Manhattan, not Connecticut, and this blog has never focused much on senatorial races and the like.  So I wasn't going to write about it much, if any.  But today I hear that Lieberman has called for Don Rumsfeld's resignation.

For Kurds, a Long Wait for Justice  —  Hussein Begins Trial Today for 1988 Offensive That Used Chemical Attacks  —  Mustafa Arab Youssef walked up the grimy, stone steps of the crumbling, sand-colored Nizarkeh fort.  As he reached the second floor, his neighbor Haji Mohammed pointed …

Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout  —  The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.

McCain Mines Elite of G.O.P. for 2008 Team  —  Senator John McCain is locking up a cast of top-shelf Republican strategists, policy experts, fund-raisers and donors, in a methodical effort to build a 2008 presidential campaign machine that is drawing supporters of President Bush despite the sometimes rocky history between the two men.

Overlooking New Orleans' women  —  A favorite approach of some cultural anthropologists is to look at the women of a given society as a gauge of its overall well-being.  By that approach, post-Katrina New Orleans is floundering.  No surprise there: We're all familiar with the criticism leveled …

If you want sharia law, you should go and live in Saudi  —  Shahid Malik, the Labour MP, explains why he told fellow Muslims that if they don't like Britain they should pack their bags  —  Scotland Yard described it as a plot "to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale".

Columbia-Educated Doctor Will Argue He Had To Help Al Qaeda  —  The Columbia University-educated doctor charged with promising to provide medical care to Al Qaeda operatives will argue that professional ethics require him to offer medical aid to all patients, even terrorists.

Suha Arafat "remarries" (& anti-Hizbullah comment starts W. Bank wedding riot)  —  1. West Bank wedding riot after guest calls Nasrallah "a dog"  —  3. Palestinian babies being named after Hizbullah  —  6. Iranian cleric: We'll hit Tel Aviv over "iota" of Israeli aggression

And now for the good news  —  Progress is being made in the fight against AIDS in Africa, thanks in no small part to the president's aid program.  But that's not what some people want to hear.  —  FIVE YEARS AGO, in Jos, Nigeria, a city on the country's central plateau …

Firebrand Islamic academic: 'dying for your beliefs is just'  —  A British-based Muslim radical appeared to back suicide bombing yesterday when he claimed that dying for your beliefs was 'just'.  —  Dr Azzam Tamimi told an 8,000-strong crowd that standing up for your principles was the 'greatest act of martyrdom'.

Old lawsuit back to haunt Corker in race  —  Reinstated environmental case questions ethics of business deal  —  CHATTANOOGA — Once a place where neighborhood kids caught bugs and hikers admired birds and wildflowers, this wooded nature preserve along South Chickamauga Creek now is littered …

DID OSAMA LUST FOR  —  WHITNEY?  —  OSAMA bin Laden has more on his mind than just the destruction of the United States - the world's most wanted terrorist is obsessed with Whitney Houston, so much so that he's even mulled a hit on her hubby, Bobby Brown.  —  Kola Boof, 37 …

A Higher Power  —  James Baker puts Bush's Iraq policy into rehab.  —  Amid the highly charged political infighting in Washington over what to do in Iraq, you might be excused for not noticing that a bipartisan commission quietly started work last spring with a mandate to help the Bush administration rethink its policy toward the war.

Olmert asks Italy to lead UN force  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called for Italy to lead a U.N. peacekeeping force for Lebanon, his office said in a statement on Sunday.  —  The call was made in a telephone conversation between Olmert …

Experts Praise Royal Treatment of Karr  —  Authorities probably had a very good reason for allowing JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr to live it up on the 15-hour flight to the United States, legal experts say — they wanted him to talk.  —  Denver attorney Larry Pozner …

Dismantling the Liebermachine  —  I find it quite ironic that those best positioned to understand the implications of Lieberman's downfall are the most apt to describe the race as unimportant or meaningless instead of the momentus event it really is.  I would throw into this TPM reader DK …