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" …

From Reuters ...  It is hard not to take this as another example that the White House is seriously out of touch with both history and reality when it comes to Iraq.  —  Let's run through a few differences.  First, Korea is an ethnically and culturally homogenous state.

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 …

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 …

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."

Thompson wants to be 2008's outsider  —  STAMFORD, Conn. — Politician-turned-actor Fred Thompson has been coy with audiences as he flirts with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.  —  In an interview with USA TODAY, however, the former Tennessee senator not only makes it clear …

Iraq—the Coming GOP Collapse?  —  Was talking to an influential Republican strategist who thinks if Iraq looks the way it does now in September, Bush will lose about 25 Senate Republicans on a bill with some sort of timetable for withdrawal.

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.''