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August 07, 2006
• 11th Hour Diplomacy in Middle East; Israel on the Offensive; President Bush Holds Rare Crawford News Conference on Middle East Crisis
• Granddaughter of Former Lebanese President Speaks Out on Bloodshed; Mark Regev Discusses Conflict in Middle East; Lebanon Pledging To Send Thousands of Troops South


August 04, 2006
• Hezbollah Rockets Strike Deeper Into Israel; IDF Takes New Aim at Hezbollah Targets
• Hezbollah Launches Deepest Rocket Attacks Yet Into Israel; Israel Bombing Major Routes Out of Lebanon; Situation In Mideast Could Lead to Iraq Fallout; Seeds of Peace Camp Helps Israeli and Arab Children
• Hezbollah Rockets Land Deeper Into Northern Israel; Israel Intensifying Air Power Against Targets; Poll Numbers Show How Americans Feel About Mideast Conflict; Roula Talj Interview; Michael Herzog Discusses Mideast Developments; Hillary Clinton's Presidential Prospects After Confronting Rumsfeld


August 03, 2006
• New Explosions Rocking Beirut; Will War Spread to Tel Aviv?
• Hezbollah Threatens Attack on Tel Aviv; Target: North Israel; Syria Under Pressure; Violence Continues in Iraq, More Troops Needed; James Woolsey Interview
• Israel Expands Military Operation Across Southern Lebanon; Hezbollah Leader Makes New Threats; Rumsfeld Testifies Before Senate Armed Services Committee; Mark Regev Interview; Dozens Of Hezbollah Rockets Land in Israel, Taking Deadly Toll; Court Rules DeLay's Name Will Stay on Texas Ballot in November; Lieberman Losing Ground in Poll


August 02, 2006
• Israel Launches Larger Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon; Israeli Air Campaign Resumes Targetting of Beirut; Israeli Forces Raid Possible Hezbollah Base in Northern Lebanese Hospital;
• IDF: 215 Hezbollah Rockets Fired From Lebanon; Hospital Targeted in Raid Used as Hezbollah Base; Relief & Red Tape; John McCain Interview; Daniel Ayalon Interview; Israel Releases Video of IDF Raid in Baalbeck, Lebanon; More Violence Continues in Iraq; Tropical Storm Chris Could Turn into Hurricane
• Deepest Hezbollah Rocket Strike Since Start of Conflict; Israeli Forces Step Up Offensive in Lebanon; Carla Jazzar Interview; Israel Likely Conducting Clearing Operation; Aid Workers on the Move in Lebanon


August 01, 2006
• War in Lebanon Widens; Castro Temporarily Yields Power to Brother Raul
• According to Lebanon, Major Israeli Operation in Baalbeck; U.S. Soldier Among More Than 70 People Killed in Iraq Today; Castro Ill, Temporarily Turning Over Power To Younger Brother; Interview With Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha; Israel Ground Troops Moving into Southern Lebanon; Mel Gibson Apologizes to Jewish Community
• Israel Resuming Airstrikes on Hezbollah Targets; Senior Aide Says Castro's 'Last Moment is Very Far Away'; Debate In Congress Is Whether or Not Tough U.S. Stance on Cuba Helps or Hurts Push for Democracy There; Controversial Congresswoman's Embattled Reelection Campaign Could Be Influenced By Events in Middle East


July 31, 2006
• Israel's Cabinet Gives Go-Ahead for Wider Ground War
• Syrian President Tells Army to 'Raise Readiness'; Interview With Israeli Ambassador to U.N. Dan Gillerman
• Israel Rejects Calls for Cease-Fire


July 28, 2006
• Hezbollah Launches More Powerful Rocket; U.N. Relief Coordinator Seeks 72-Hour Cease-Fire; Israel May Face Threats From Mediterranean Sea; Shooting at Jewish Community Center in Seattle
• Death and Destruction Multiplied as Israel Continues to Strike Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon; Hezbollah Drops Powerful Rockets in Israel; President Bush, Tony Blair Push For U.N. resolution to End Mideast Fighting Long-Term; Relief Officials Worried About Humanitarian Situation in Lebanon; Some Experts Say U.S. Refusal to Talk to Damascus Hampers Efforts To End Fighting; Environmental Crisis in Lebanon
• Three Hezbollah Rockets That Hit South of Haifa May Carry 220 Pounds of Explosives Each; U.N. Chief Humanitarian Relief Coordinator Calls for 72-Hour Cease-Fire; Blair and Bush Discuss Mideast Crisis; Pending Security Council Resolution on Iran; Gideon Meir Interviewed; Iraq Still Holds Bush's Approval Numbers Down; Minimum Wage Legislation Before House


July 27, 2006
• Is Israel Preparing to Send More Troops Into Lebanon?; Zawahiri Releases New Tape
• IDF Agrees to Take American Pool Camera Into Lebanon; New al Qaeda Videotape Airs on Al-Jazeera; Reaction in Beirut to Ayman al- Zawahiri's Tape; After Tough Days, More Questions than Answers About Where Israeli Campaign Is
• Israel Orders Reinforcements For Battle Against Hezbollah Guerrillas; Ayman al-Zawahiri Lashes Out At Israel's Battles Against Hezbollah and Hamas Militants in Gaza; 172nd Stryker Brigade To Be Extended in Iraq; Roula Talj Interview; For Second Day Israeli Fighter Jets Pounded Tyre; Bush to Host Tony Blair at White House; U.S. Involvement in Middle East Hasn't Always Gone as Planned


July 26, 2006
• Israel Suffers More Losses in Fight Against Hezbollah; Investigation Into Killing of Four U.N. Military Observers; Condoleezza Rice Pushes International Pressure in Rome
• Airstrikes Destroy 10-Story Building in Tyre; 8 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Fighting Around Bint Jbeil; Diplomacy: No Deal; Fallout From Death of U.N. Observers; Ido Nehushtan Interview
• Costly Day For Israeli Army; Fallout After Killing of Four U.N. Observers in Southern Lebanon; Jan Egeland Interview; Disappointment After Emergency Summit in Rome; Nouri Al-Maliki Speaks Before Congress; Evacuation Effort From Cyprus Continues


July 25, 2006
• At Least Two U.N. Observers Killed in Israeli Air Strikes; Kofi Annan Suggests Attack Was Deliberate by Israel
• Four U.N. Observers Killed in Israeli Airstrike; Israel Takes Control of Key Hezbollah Stronghold in Lebanon; U.S. Diplomatic Plan for end to Mideast Conflict; Four United Nations Observers Killed in Lebanon; Democrats Want to Stop Iraqi Prime Minister from Addressing Congress; Shimon Peres Interview
• Israeli Military Claiming New Victories in Fight Against Hezbollah; Israel Firing Deeper Into Lebanon; Condoleezza Rice Discussing Middle East in Rome; Amin Gemayel Interview; Scenarios For International Stabilization Force for Southern Lebanon Being Discussed; President Bush Appears At Joint News Conference With Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; U.S. Military on Mission of Mercy in Lebanon


July 24, 2006
• Rice Travels to Middle East
• 13 Days of Warfare; Condoleezza Rice's Delicate Diplomatic Mission; The Path to Peace?
• United States Reaches Out to Lebanon; Benjamin Netanyahu Discusses Conflict in Middle East; More Bloodshed on 13th Day of Warfare


July 21, 2006
• All-Out Ground War in the Middle East?
• According to Al-Arabiya Body of Israeli Soldier Has Been Found in Southern Lebanon; Israel Preparing For Possible Large-Scale Ground Envision; Lebanon Considering How to Defend Itself Against Israeli Onslaught; Rockets Hit Haifa; Condoleezza Rice to Leave for Mideast This Weekend; American's Being Evacuated from Lebanon; Is World War III Beginning?
• Israel Massing Troops Along Lebanese Border for Possible Ground Invasion; Lebanese President Vows Country Will Defend Itself Against Israeli Ground Invasion; President Bush, Condoleezza Rice to Meet With Saudi Officials; Haifa Residents Jolted by Rocket Attacks; Mideast Conflict May Impact Midterm Elections; Mark Regev Interview; Terje Roed-Larsen Interview


July 20, 2006
• Two Israeli Helicopters Collide; Hezbollah Remains Defiant
• Thousands of Lebanese Seek Safety in Syria; U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan Denouncing Both Israel and Hezbollah for Warfare; USS Nashville Delivering Americans From Lebanon to Cyprus; CNN Correspondent's Family Stuck in Lebanon; U.S. Has Diminished Diplomatic Ties With Many Involved in Mideast Crisis; Nicholas Burns Interview
• Urgency To Evacuate Americans Out of Lebanon; Israelis Targeting Command and Control Structure of Hezbollah; Hassan Nasrallah Interviewed on Al-Jazeera; Condoleezza Rice Likely to Press U.S. Defense of Israel in Meeting With Kofi Annan; New Poll Asks Americans About U.S. Involvement in Mideast; Roula Talj Interview; Bush Addresses NAACP


July 19, 2006
• Israeli Warplane Targets Bunkers used by Hezbollah Leaders; More Americans Expected to Leave Lebanon Tomorrow; U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies Warned to Watch for Possible Hezbollah Ties; Some People Moving to Middle East Right Now
• Cruise Ship With U.S. Evacuees to Arrive in Cyprus Tonight; Former Defense Secretary Weighs in on Mideast Crisis; American Jews Move to Middle East Despite Violence; Israel Military Claims Bombing of Hezbollah Bunker; Future of Warfare Could Involve Lasers
• Cruise Ship with U.S. Evacuees to Arrive in Cyprus Tonight; Secretary Rice to be Briefed Friday by U.N. Team on Mideast Crisis; New Explosions in Beirut; President Bush Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill


July 18, 2006
• Israel Resumes Air Strikes on Beirut
• Open Warfare Between Israel and Lebanon; Paying to Get Out of Lebanon; Interview With Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; Nasrallah Sfeir Interview; Remembering 1983 in Beirut; Growing Concern Middle East Fighting Will Spread and Become Wider, Ground-Based War
• Bush Administration Defending American Evacuation from Lebanon; Intense Trading of Fire and Shelling Between Israel, Hezbollah; U.S. Military Vice Admiral Patrick Walsh Interview; State Department Plans to Charge U.S. Citizens Flown To Safety, Causing A Stir in Washington; Madeleine Albright Interview; Senate Moving Toward Vote on Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research


July 17, 2006
• War in the Middle East Escalates
• Chaos, Carnage & Calls for Calm in Middle East; Mass Evacuation Preparations for American Citizens in Lebanon
• Ehud Olmert Says Israel at Crossroads in Fighting Terrorism; President Bush Vents Frustration Over Mideast Conflict; U.S. Prepares to Evacuate Americans from Lebanon


July 14, 2006
• Israel On the Offensive in Gaza, Lebanon; Hezbollah Leader Declares Open War on Israel
• Vow of 'Open War'; Israeli Towns on Lockdown; Middle East Crisis New Priority for G8 Summit; Embattled Citizens Turn to Internet for News; Will Middle East Conflict Spread?; Wildfires Threaten to Merge in California; Evangelical Pastor's Trip to North Korea Canceled
• Battle Between Israel, Hezbollah Amps Up; Bush Meets with Russian President; Former Secretary of State Weighs in on Middle East Crisis; Yona Yahav Interview; Iran's President Blasting What He Calls Zionist Invasion of Lebanon


July 13, 2006
• Middle East on Brink of War?
• Mideast on Brink of War?; Interview with Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Daniel Ayalon; Interview with Syrian Ambassador to U.S. Imad Moustapha; Rockets Land in Israeli Port City of Haifa; U.S. Military Concerned For Americans in Lebanon; Middle East Fighting Triggers Oil Market Worries; Valerie Plame Suing White House Officials
• Rockets Fired from Lebanon Land In Major Israeli city; Zalmay Khalilzad Interview; Bill Frist Interview; Israel Fires At Beirut International Airport; Valerie Plame Sues Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, Karl Rove; U.S. May Be Unprepared For Cyber Attack; Crude Oil Closes At Record High; Middle East Is, Has Long Been Powder Keg Waiting to Explode


July 12, 2006
• Israel Strikes Lebanon and Gaza; Bush visits Germany; Wildfires in California; Rumsfeld Visits Iraq; Novak Talks More About CIA Leak Source
• Israeli Troops Battle Hezbollah Guerillas in Southern Lebanon; President Bush's Global Test; North Korea: Missile Diplomacy; Army Ending Halliburton Contract; Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri Interview
• President Bush Heads to Germany to Address Mideast Tensions; Hezbollah Kidnaps Two Israeli Soldiers; New Details About Sources of CIA Leak and the Karl Rove Connection; Alexander Haig Interview; Ehud Olmert Authorizes Military Action in Southern Lebanon; Wasteful Spending in Response to 9/11 Attacks


July 11, 2006
• New York Subways on Security Alert; Bombs Rip Through Crowded Commuter Trains in India
• Terror Attacks Targeting Commuters in India's Financial Capital; NYC Subway Alert
• Terrorist Attacks in India; New York City on Alert; Changes in Status of Prisoners in War on Terror; Deficit Falls; Court Rules Search of Congressman Jefferson's Office Legal


July 10, 2006
• Japan Refuses to Rule Out Preemptive Strike Against North Korea
• Did Messy Divorce Fuel Death Wish?; Military Massacre Probe
• Possible Sanctions Against North Korea On Hold; Peter Hoekstra's Concern About Being Kept in the Dark by White House; Evan Bayh's Initiative to Compete with Hillary Clinton; Investigators Believe Gas Explosion Brought Down New York City Building; Interview with Margaret Bennett


July 07, 2006
• Authorities Foil Plot to Attack Transit Tunnels in New York
• New York City Tunnel Terror?; North Korea Missile Fallout; Interview With Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card
• After North Korea's Missile Tests, President Bush Says Diplomatic Solution Will Take Time and Patience; Iraq Was Main Topic During Lieberman, Lamont Debate; Interview with Howard Dean; Murtha's New Mission; Space Station Crew Members Interviewed; World Cup Final on Sunday


July 06, 2006
• Bush vs. North Korea
• North Korea: Missile Diplomacy; Dead Man Talking; Iraqi Rape- Murder Probe
• Bush Mulls North Korean Options, Calls Other Heads of State; Calderon Declared Winner of Mexican Presidential Election; Michael Gerson Interview


July 05, 2006
• President Bush Rejects Showdown With North Korea over Missile Defiance; Dueling Hearings in San Diego over Border Security; Casinos are Latest Target of New Jersey Government Shutdown
• Bush Administration and the World Send Message to North Korea; Rocket Reportedly Launched from Gaza Landed in Israel; Iraqi Chorus of Outrage About Rape and Murder of Iraqi Civilians, Allegedly by American Soldier; Atlantic City Casinos Dark; Ken Lay Has Died
• President Bush Says Missile Tests Further Isolate North Korea; China Issues Mild Rebuke to Pyongyang; U.N. Security Council Holds Talks on Missile Tests; Effectiveness of U.S. Missile Defense System; Atlantic City Casinos Are Dark; Presidential Recount in Mexico


July 04, 2006
• White House Confirms North Korea Fired at Least Five Missiles; Mideast Hostilities Escalate
• North Korea Test-Fires at Least Three Missiles; Discovery Space Shuttle in Orbit; White House Responds to Missile Test
• North Korean Launches Several Missiles
• Missile Launched by North Korea; Discovery Launch Successful; President Bush Visits Fort Bragg, North Carolina; New Jersey Casinos May Shut Down


July 03, 2006
• New Threat From North Korea; Will NASA Scrub Discovery Launch?
• NASA Officials Weighing Discovery Launch: Former U.S. Soldier Charged with Rape and Murder; North Korea Promises Nuclear Attack If America Attacks; Supreme Court Intervenes in Ongoing Battle Over a Cross in San Diego; Six Hours Away From Deadline for Kidnapped Israeli Soldier; Dramatic Developments in Iraq's Diyala Province; Osama bin Laden Calls For Attacks Against Iraqi Shiites; G.M. Becomes More Ecologically-Friendly; Population in Louisiana Town Sees Increase in Crime Rate; Seymour Hersh Discusses Potential Military Planning in Iran
• Joe Lieberman Will Run As Petitioning Democrat If He Loses Democratic Primary in August; Decision on Discovery Launch Expected by Tonight; The Role of Religion in Elections


June 30, 2006
• New Message from bin Laden; Japan's PM Visits Graceland
• U.S. Soldiers Suspected of Raping, Killing Iraqi Woman and Killing Her Family; New Osama Bin Laden Audiotape; Autopsy Results Released Boy Who Died On Disney Coaster; Ex-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik Pleading Guilty To Taking Gifts While in Office; America's Spy Satellites Vulnerable To Attack?; Israel Pounding Gaza
• Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Visits Graceland; White House Says Guantanamo Bay Will Remain Open Until For Now; Republicans Attempt To Breach Immigration Policy Divide; Nicolle Wallace; "New York Times" Versus "Wall Street Journal"


June 29, 2006
• Supreme Court Rules on Military Tribunals for Terror Suspects
• President Bush Says He'll Work With Congress to Try Guantanamo Bay Detainees in Military Tribunals; Israel is Holding Up Major Ground Operation in Northern Gaza; Daniel Ayalon Interview; Pro-Palestinian Hackers Attacking Web Sites Inside Israel; Shafiq Rasul Interview; Officials Beginning to Tally Flood Damage Along Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules That President Bush Overstepped Authority in Planning Military Trials for Terror Suspects; Is the Bush Administration Under Increasing Pressure to Shut Down Guantanamo?; House Republicans Targeting "New York Times" and Other News Organizations for Revealing Secret Anti-Terror Program; Liberal Enclaves Passed Resolutions Calling on Congress to Impeach President Bush; Schwarzenegger To Meet With the Gay Political Group


June 28, 2006
• Israeli's Move into Gaza Heating Up; Israel Takes on Syria; Flooding from Virginia to New York City Forcing Hundreds of Thousands of People to Evacuate Their Homes; Ed Rendell Interview; New York City Lays Out Worst Case Hurricane Scenario Plan; Insurgent Groups in Iraq Offer Government Deal to End Violence; Marine Featured in "Fahrenheit 9/11 Dies in Iraq; Laptop Explodes in Japan
• Rivers Rising to Dangerous Levels Across Northeast; New Israeli Airstrikes in Southern Gaza; Insurgent Truce Offer?; Imad Moustapha Interview; New York City Unveils Plan to Move Millions Should Hurricane Hit; Ed Rendell Discusses Flooding; New U.S. Spy Satellite Orbiting Earth
• Major General William Caldwell Interview; Debate Over Troop Withdrawal Continues on Capitol Hill; Reasons "New York Times" is Under Attack; Utah Congressman Survives Primary Challenge; Supreme Court Upholds Most Texas Redistricting; Democrats Discuss Religion; Democrats Attempt To Change Primary Schedule


June 27, 2006
• Senate Rejects Constitution Amendment Banning Flag Burning; Relentless Rains in Washington, D.C.
• Flag Burning Debate and Vote in Senate; Setting Prisoners Free in Iraq; Rains Continue to Drench Northeast; Saddam Believes He Can Evade Death Because U.S. Will Seek His Help; Ramsey Clark Interview; Report Shows More Hurricane Katrina Fraud and Waste
• Push Underway for Constitutional Amendment Banning Flag Desecration; President Bush's Line-Item Veto Makes Lawmakers Uneasy; Carlos Gutierrez Interview


June 26, 2006
• Interview With Bill Keller; Bomb Threat Forces Closure of Major American Port
• License Plate Debate; Pentagon: New Plan for Withdrawing Troops From Iraq
• Democrats Fuming Over Proposed Plan for Troop Reduction; Zalmay Khalilzad Discusses Reconciliation Plan in Iraq; Senate Debates Constitutional Amendment to Ban Flag Burning; Bomb Blasts Echo Near Baghdad


June 23, 2006
• Interview With Family Members of Terror Suspects
• Brand-New Message From Ayman al-Zawahiri; Threat To Attack Sears Tower Came From Within America; Revelation That Government Accessed Millions of International Money Transactions Confirmed by Bush Administration; Sources Say North Korea Completed All Preparations For Missile Launch; New Study Claims Global Warming Contributes To High Ocean Temperatures More Than Natural Cycles or El Nino; Clark Kent Ervin Interview; How Safe Are We?; Could Colony on Mars Happen Soon?; Terror Suspect's Sister Speaks Out
• Authorities Calling Terror Plotters In Miami Homegrown Terrorists; Bush White House Insists Program To Track Banking Records is Legal and Justified; James Woolsey Interview; Possible Election Day Implications of Alleged Terrorism Plot; Do Americans Feel Safe?


June 22, 2006
• Interview With Dick Cheney
• Senate Votes Down Two Democratic Proposals For Troop Reductions in Iraq; Operation Eagles Nest Deemed a Success; Are Democratic Plans for Iraq Feasible?; Is L.A. Overdue for a Major Earthquake?; USS New York to Feature Steel from Twin Towers; Prime Minister Blair Shops for "Blair Force One"; Embryo Screening Possible with New Technology
• Growing Pressure on Pentagon to Reduce Troop Levels; Dick Cheney Interview; Democrats Facing Intense Pressure From Two Directions on Iraq; Hastert Parachutes Back Into Immigration Wars


June 21, 2006
• Eight U.S. Soldiers Charged With Murder; Saddam Hussein Attorney Gunned Down; Massive Kidnapping Near Baghdad; New Reports on WMD Presence; Arnold Schwarzenegger Takes Helicopter Tour of U.S.- Mexico Border


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