Bless the Beasts and Children  —  Where did they go?  —  On 29 June, American and Iraqi soldiers were again fighting side-by-side as soldiers from Charley Company 1-12 CAV, led by Captain Clayton Combs, and Iraqi soldiers from the 5th IA, closed in on a village on the outskirts of Baqubah.

Why Winston Wouldn't Stand For W  —  George W. Bush always wanted to be like a wartime British prime ministers.  He is.  But it's not the one he had in mind.  —  President Bush's favorite role model is, famously, Jesus, but Winston Churchill is close behind.

A Political Force With Many Philosophies  —  Survey of Independents, Who Could Be Key in 2008, Finds Attitudes From Partisan to Apathetic  —  Fred Wood, a Marietta, Ohio, retiree, voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and John F. Kerry in 2004.  In last year's midterm elections, he voted Republican for Senate and Democratic for governor.

Blair launches stinging attack on 'absurd' British Islamists  —  Tony Blair has launched a powerful attack on 'absurd' British Islamists who have nurtured a false 'sense of grievance' that they are being oppressed by Britain and the United States.  —  In his most outspoken remarks on Islamists …

Lieberman Uses Foiled British Terror Plot To Push For Greater U.S. Domestic Spying  —  Appearing on ABC's This Week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) used the foiled terror attempts in London to call for greater domestic spying here in the United States.  Lieberman said, "I hope these terrorist attacks …

Obama tops $30 million in second quarter  —  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: A source close to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says his presidential campaign raised more than $30 million during the second quarter, which ended yesterday.  —  That figure tops Obama's haul during …

Pelosi lays blame for missed goals on Senate  —  (06-30) 04:00 PDT Washington — The problem for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't just President Bush.  It's the Senate.  —  Pelosi sounded more apologetic than celebratory Friday when she announced with her Senate counterpart …

Roswell aliens theory revived by deathbed confession  —  EXACTLY 60 years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, at a height of around 3000m.  —  Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft.  —  Visibility was good and as pilot …

Gangsta rap on death row as the US tunes out  —  To judge by their lyrics, gangsta rappers are adept at seeing off rivals with a bullet and their women with a slap.  —  But America's rappers are now trapped in a corner they don't seem able to shoot their way out of, with either weapons or words.

Centenary a modern sci-fi giant  —  PRINCE WILLIAM County—When Robert A. Heinlein opened his Colorado Springs newspaper on April 5, 1958, he read a full-page ad demanding that the Eisenhower administration stop testing nuclear weapons.  The science-fiction author was flabbergasted.

Zimbabwe's top cleric urges Britain to invade  —  ZIMBABWE'S leading cleric has called on Britain to invade the country and topple President Robert Mugabe.  Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, warned that millions were facing death from famine, unable to survive amid inflation believed to have soared to 15,000%.

Selling the threat of bioterrorism  —  An ex-Soviet scientist raised fears, helped shape U.S. policy and sought to profit.  —  WASHINGTON — In the fall of 1992, Kanatjan Alibekov defected from Russia to the United States, bringing detailed, and chilling, descriptions of his role …

A Fire We Can't Run From  —  "Sometimes you just have to let a fire burn."  George Shultz, a former secretary of state who was trained as an industrial economist, is said to have made that remark about labor negotiations that have reached an impasse.  There is a growing sense among Americans that we must apply this precept to Iraq.

Bush Is Told to Justify Executive Privilege  —  The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees yesterday ratcheted up their fight with President Bush over documents on the firing of U.S. attorneys, sending the White House a barbed letter demanding that the president back down from a claim …