5 September 2006

  • New York's currently: wishing for a summer repeat
  • Sudan launches offensive to wipe out remaining rebels before U.N. peacekeepers show up.
  • Republicans in Congress scrap work on immigration laws--which nobody wants to hear about--vow renewed focus on November elections.
  • They argue, however, that if they aren't reelected, there won't be anybody to work on important issues like immigration reform after the elections.
  • "Soccer moms" and "NASCAR dads," meet your 2006 counterpart: "mortgage moms."
  • For the first time in his presidency, Bush spends Labor Day somewhere besides next to a grinning Republican candidate.
  • TMN and Matthew Baldwin sit innocently behind one Michigan juror's plagiarized essay.
  • Ohio toys with sex offender registry minus sex offender convictions.
  • Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn shrinks under criticism--the tallest building will now stand shorter than the Williamsburgh Bank tower.
  • When Katie Couric debuts on tonight's CBS Evening News, she'll open to a theme song by the Field of Dreams composer and then, according to industry analysts, change the world.
  • Forty bodies found in Baghdad, some blindfolded; mass grave from 1980s executions uncovered in Kirkuk.
  • Today in Digest: Robert Birnbaum on the books you need to read.
  • Banksy tampers with Paris Hilton albums.
  • The musical hardwiring in our brains is what makes us all agree on the jam of the summer.
  • MySpace to open store that will allow bands to sell songs directly from their profiles.
  • Queens judge grants five-year-old bichon frise restraining order against his abusive owner.
  • Giving all Asians vitamin D versus 14 cases of rickets.
  • Israeli man rescued after paragliding into minefield near Syrian and Jordanian borders.
  • Rumors circulate over Steve Irwin's death--though the grisly film shows exactly what happened.
  • Sexual cannibalism is not limited to mantises, but is also found in spiders, midges, and perhaps horned nudibranchs.--no, not "midgets."