It's official  —  The U.S. Justice Department has notified Arkansas's congressional delegation that Interim Eastern District U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin is resigning effective Friday, June 1.  Jane Duke will become acting U.S. attorney.  (This is the assistant in the office who the Justice Department once …

Lieberman talks to troops in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman.  Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" …

Litvinenko was British spy, says Lugovoi  —  Andrei Lugovoi, the Russian accused by the UK of murdering Alexander Litvinenko has claimed he has evidence that British intelligence was involved in the poisoning of the former KGB officer.  —  Mr Lugovoi said he believed the UK intelligence services …

Lecturers vote for Israel boycott  —  University lecturers threatened yesterday to provoke international condemnation by forcing their union into a year-long debate over boycotting work with Israeli universities.  —  Delegates at the first conference of the new University and College Union …

Clinton defends Iraq war funding vote  —  LAS VEGAS - White House hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday defended her vote against an Iraq war funding bill, saying she believes President Bush will begin withdrawing troops from Iraq soon.  —  The New York senator said she came …

What I Think About Evolution  —  IN our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves.  So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican presidential debate …

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Not Sure Global Warming A Problem  —  Michael Griffin NASA Administrator has told America's National Public Radio that while he has no doubt a trend of global warming exists "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."

Hopkins Aid Officer Was Paid More by Lenders Than Disclosed  —  Hopkins Official Paid by Lenders Was Seen as a Stickler  —  A former financial aid director at Johns Hopkins University who cultivated a national reputation as a stickler for ethics accepted more than $130,000 …

I THINK I'VE SEEN THIS SHOW BEFORE:  —  I don't have time to write a long post on this, but I wanted to get this out there before someone else beat me to it: Fred Thompson is to the Republicans in '08 as Wes Clark was to the Democrats in '04.  In other words, the highpoint of his campaign …

U.N. Council Backs Tribunal For Lebanon  —  Beirut Braces for Unrest After Vote To Pursue Assassins of Former Premier  —  A sharply divided U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to create an international criminal tribunal to prosecute the masterminds of the February 2005 suicide bombing …

ACLU sues Boeing arm over CIA renditions  —  The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Boeing subsidiary on Wednesday for allegedly helping the Central Intelligence Agency transport prisoners under its extraordinary renditions programme.  —  The ACLU lawsuit alleges that the subsidiary …

Officers Describe al Qaeda Prison Rescue Mission  —  Officers from the U.S. Army battalion that freed 41 prisoners from an al Qaeda in Iraq hideout May 27 provided details on the operation yesterday.  —  U.S. and Iraqi soldiers were conducting operations in a town south of Baqubah …

Inside the Creation Museum  —  Adam and Eve frolic amid the dinosaurs in the new $27 million museum that demonstrates Darwin has nothing on the Book of Genesis.  —  Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, depicted in the Creation Museum.  —  The Creation Museum swung open its stegosaurus-guarded gates …

Virginia's Kaine Warns Democrats Protectionism Is a `Loser'  —  May 30 (Bloomberg) — Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine, parting with some fellow Democrats, said he's ``passionate'' about strengthening global-trade ties and that those advocating protectionism have a ``loser's mentality.''