5 September 2006
By The Morning News
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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."