22 February 2007: Morning
By The Morning News
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Following Blair's plan to withdraw troops from Iraq, the Pentagon may send 14,000 of them back early.
Op: Blair's retreat, inglorious but necessary. See also, a small concept called "operational failure."
Growing concern about chemical weapons used by insurgents in Iraq.
Italian government defeated by United States alliance with the U.S. and role in NATO.
Protesters arrested after violent clashes with the police prior to Cheney's arrival in Australia.
Cheney: Not the visitor your government wants to host.
Japan's defense forces to be represented by Prince Pickles, "with saucer eyes, big dimples and tiny, booted feet."
Today's long read: The disaster in Iraq? The enormous, deadly, catastrophic mess in Mesopotamia? It's your fault, and mine.
Clinton, Obama battle in public, and it looks like Clinton won.
Review of climate-change lawsuits currently in litigation.
Arid Southwest should prepare for more severe droughts.
South Africa threatens to ban "canned" hunting--shooting tame lions--and breeders threaten to kill the lions anyway, citing feeding costs.
Harvard pro-abstinence spokesperson stymied by question about dry-humping.
Video: Teaser trailer for This American Life, the TV show.
