* IAEA says Iran has doubled its uranium enrichment capacity at an underground facility south of Tehran. * A visit to the Nevada Test Site. * Pentagon considers legal action against former Seal, publisher for divulging classified information in Osama bin Laden book. * The fourth episode of TLC's Honey Boo Boo
* South African miners charged in murder of colleagues shot by police. * Trial of Bradley Manning to begin in February—three years after he was arrested. * This is the last time that any party will try to win an election with just the white vote. * Egyptian leader backs Syrian rebels at
* Bad jokes from the RNC. * Neil Bush, brother of George W., unexpectedly becomes a Chinese internet sensation. * The exact origin of @ is a mystery, but its first documented use was to denote jars of wine. * For centuries, whiskey distilleries have been home to a black fungus; now that it'
* Police bully young drug offenders into becoming informants with few legal protections, massive danger. * NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board is institutionally imbalanced, lets down people treated as customers. * Syrian émigrés in America fundraise for rebels, help provide intel to U.S. * Syria is at the point of no return, sitting
* Why the world's most popular blogger, a 29-year-old Chinese racecar driver, is practically unknown in the West. * Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher to start selling soup (not just chicken). * Yosemite National Park cleans, inspects cabins following recent deaths attributed to rare, rodent-borne hantavirus. * Reviews
At 11 a.m. EDT on Monday morning, the 2012 United States Open Tennis Championship began play. At 1:23 p.m. a thunderstorm hit so hard that players who were bouncing a ball on court in preparation to serve just stopped, looked up, and walked off court. The stadiums
Our man in Boston talks with writer Ron Rash about his latest book, America's great regional voices, the high percentage of readers in New Zealand and Australia, and the misery that accompanies putting a novel together, where it's rather more fun to stick pencils in your eyes.
* Hurricane Isaac lacks Katrina's ferocity, but overruns a levee 95 miles from New Orleans. * Puerto Rican party functionary shouted down at RNC by nativist chanting. * Gay Marine beaten to bloody pulp to fire up RNC crowd. * Since 2009, 51 Tibetans have died in self-immolations protesting Chinese rule.
* The RNC has a national debt clock familiar to New Yorkers, who may remember when it went in reverse under Clinton. * Mitt Romney could become Ronald Reagan. * Mitt Romney could become Richard Nixon. * NYPD admits targeting Urdu speakers as potential terrorists—a problem since 80,000 New Yorkers speak it.
* Army-linked militia planned to take over Fort Stewart, bomb dam, poison apples, assassinate Obama. * Jeffrey Johnson's mother seeks clues from his life as to why he killed a former coworker. * Israeli judge rules Rachel Corrie's death not Israel's fault—she was protecting terrorists.
