Press Conference by the President  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Please be seated.  Fancy digs you got here.  Thanks for your hospitality.  It's good to visit with you.  I look forward to taking some of your questions.

Charges Over Terror Plot  —  Eleven suspects in the alleged UK airport terror plot have been charged.  —  Police have also revealed that they found bomb-making equipment and martyrdom videos during their investigations.  —  They said eight people had been charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism.

Is Tomorrow Doomsday?  —  Asa Eslocker Reports:  —  While no extra safeguards are in place, U.S. law enforcement are not ignoring the possible significance of tomorrow's date, August 22, a date that marks an important historic event on the Islamic calendar.

NY'S LAMONT WANNABE  —  WILL NETROOTS TAKE ON HILLARY?  —  JONATHAN Tasini has less than a month to become New York's Ned Lamont.  The Democratic primary is on Sept. 12, he's at 13 percent in the polls and he's just had his best fund-raising week ever online.

Devastation...Still  —  This evening will be the first night of a two-part documentary that Spike Lee developed on the devastation in the Gulf Coast after Katrina, specifically about New Orleans after the levees broke.  HBO will air the four hour documentary on two successive nights …

British Law Against Glorifying Terrorism Has Not Silenced Calls to Kill for Islam  —  From his home on the northwest edge of this city, Muhamad al-Massari runs a Web site that celebrates the violent death of British and American soldiers.  It is visited by tens of thousands of people every day, he said.

Dangers await Lebanon returnees  —  When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.  —  The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next …

Europeans Delay Decision on Role Inside Lebanon  —  The ruins of southern Beirut Sunday, after being pounded by Israeli airstrikes for a month.  Arab nations promised reconstruction aid.  —  The shaky, United Nations-brokered cease-fire in Lebanon suffered another blow on Sunday …

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.

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.

Banish The Bling  —  A Culture of Failure Taints Black America  —  Have we taken our eyes off the prize?  The civil rights movement continues, but the struggle today is not so much in the streets as in the home — and with our children.  If systemic racism remains a reality …

Judge drops Padilla terror charge  —  Padilla, codefendants faced double jeopardy, ruling says  —  MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — A federal judge in Miami on Monday dismissed a terror count against Jose Padilla, the U.S. citizen once identified as a "dirty bomb" suspect and detained as an "enemy combatant."

Sunday school teacher dumped for being female  —  WATERTOWN, New York (AP) — The minister of a church that dismissed a female Sunday School teacher after adopting what it called a literal interpretation of the Bible says a woman can perform any job — outside of the church.

'Islamofascism'  —  Beware of a religion without irony.  —  The term "Islamofascism" was introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinson (1915-2004) to describe the Iranian Revolution of 1978.  Rodinson was a Marxist, who described as "fascist" any movement of which he disapproved.

Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime  —  A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation.  In the case entitled, "United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency," …