New York's currently: hot enough for you, yes Shiite leaders in Iraq back sectarian militias feared by Sunnis. Israel and PA pledge to coordinate pullout after Supreme Court upholds plan for withdrawal. Firestorm after Justice Department pursues $10 billion for stop-smoking program instead of $130 billion. Peace
New York's currently: not up to playing host General Motors to cut a fifth of its workers. Contractors in Iraq detained after mistakenly firing on U.S. troops, claim excessive force and abuse while jailed. Three simultaneous car bomb explosions in Baghdad kill at least 20. Bush, Blair
New York's currently: hot, hot, hot, wet, hot, hot Supreme Court says Feds can bogart your medicinal marijuana. Emails exchanged by top Pentagon officials reveal startling admission of bailing out Boeing. America eats more of its meals on the go, and the detergent industry is happy to remove
New York's currently: certain the reason Brooklyn doesn't break away and drift into the Atlantic is because Manhattan sucks Sept. 11 Commission, a year after filing its report and still seeing little progress in the way of reforms, presses the White House to act before catastrophe
New York's currently: disgusted with Albany politics With recruitment increasingly difficult, Army directive hopes to stave off manpower crisis by retaining worst soldiers. Praying for a hit, publishers ship huge numbers of books, and sellers ship them right back. 12,000 killed by insurgents, says Iraq's
New York's currently: chilly, not really "chilling" Bob Woodward on how Mark Felt became Deep Throat. Related: For many involved, it appears the real goal now is to cash in somehow. Three suicide bombings have killed 20 in Iraq today; attacks prove to be on a
New York's currently: wondering where's Bush's porno whistleblower? To fight food shortages, North Korea is sending millions of urban dwellers to work on farms each weekend. Twenty killed after mosque is bombed in southern Afghanistan. Mark Felt is "Deep Throat", and after
New York's currently: bucking the greenhouse effect France's "no" vote on E.U. membership spreads doubt on the integration's future; Netherlands expected to turn in a dismissal as well. Chirac, bruised from E.U. defeat, names Villepin new PM; Blair may see
New York's currently: finally seeing sunlight Bush offers aid for Palestinians, back-slaps for Abbas, and warnings for Israel. Op: "Their meeting demonstrated once again the tightrope Mr. Bush walks as he tries to engineer peace in the region, a situation in which he is less a
New York's currently: frivolous for fear of attack Iranian negotiators say they'll swap threats to restart nuke processing for a good aid package. Shiites dominating Iraq's transitional government agree to reserve more chairs for Sunnis. More than 550 killed in Iraq this month. Findings
