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A fifteen year old draws a picture and the secret service shows up.

Explosions and gunfire shake Syrian capital.

(CIVIL) WAR IN IRAQ--A YEAR LATER:
Hopes for stability in Iraq after the June 30th "handover" are fading fast.

A soldier's mom thinks he's risking his life for a lie.

Hey, Mr. Bush--Vietnam is calling.

US battles in Najaf, leaving 1 soldier and 64 Iraqis dead. In Baghdad and Falluja, more American troops are killed and wounded. Multiple explosions shake Falluja as night falls, as its residents find places for the dead.

The calm is shattered--but what about the coalition?

Tony Blair gets a scathing letter from ex-diplomats.

Iraq gets a new flag.

Bulgaria's president is shot at in Iraq.

Ten contractors with billions of dollars in contracts have paid millions in fines since 2000.

A closer look at a Washington Post reporter who covered the war despite his opposition to it.

Colin Powell played the good-soldier role all too well.

Paper's across the country respond the Pentagon and the coffin photos.

Two soldiers opt not to return to Iraq after their sister was killed in Baghdad.

9/11, AFGHANISTAN & THE "WAR ON TERROR":
America chides its NATO allies on Afghanistan.

The horizon someday may be lined with giant floating orbs guarding people below from the enemy. Is the Patriot Act gaining popularity?

The White House tries to gag an FBI worker over 9/11.

America builds a new airbase in south-eastern Afghanistan.

VOTING & DEMOCRACY
GOP attack dogs try to smear Kerry's military record--and John McCain strikes back and so does Kerry. MoveOn.org has a TV spot ready to go. Dick Cheney, meanwhile, angered his hosts with his Kerry bashing.

Is it time for John Kerry to confront Bush on Iraq?

WORLD:
The head of the World Bank has a ludicrous idea--spend money on aid, not war. Desmond Tutu agrees.

Muammar Gaddafi heads to Europe.

Argentina's ex-president gets two arrest warrants.

Two American contractors are killed in Nigeria's oil region.

Africa wants a bigger say in the IMF.

SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY
Chile's San Rafael Glacier is rapidly melting.

Governors teaming up in the energy wars.

LAW & JUSTICE
Today's feminist, it turns out, looks like a lot of people--maybe a million. Molly Ivins on the March for Women's Lives. Also, a charming piece from the conservative National Review. Unfortunately for the anti-choice folks, the large turnout of young people points to a pro-choice future. Photographs here.

"While friendship is a ground for recusal of a justice where the personal fortune or the personal freedom of the friend is at issue, it has traditionally not been a ground for recusal where official action is at issue."
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, explaining why he would not recuse himself from the Dick Cheney/Energy Task Force case. Scalia and Cheney have been friends for thirty years. More here from Paul Krugman.

In other Scalia news, he and Chief Justice Rehnquist publicly rebuke their fellow justices over school-sponsored prayer.

AND FINALLY
Blinky goes nuts!