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- PUBLIC EYE'S WEEK IN REVIEW
Angelina Jolie gives birth
The baby has arrived – and no, they didn't name her Brangelina. Thousands of miles from Hollywood but still within easy reach of celebrity hype, Angelina Jolie gave birth to Brad Pitt's daughter yesterday in Africa, Pitt's publicist announced.
- THE LIST
The Greatest home run hitters
In a May 5-7 poll, The Gallup Organization asked sports fans an open-ended question: “Who do you consider to be the greatest home run hitter in the history of Major League Baseball?”
- This day in history: 1959
- Bush tells West Point grads safety of U.S. hinges on democracy
WEST POINT, N.Y. – President Bush, likening the war against Islamic radicals to the Cold War threat of communism, told U.S. Military Academy graduates yesterday that America's safety depends on an aggressive push for democracy, especially in the Middle East.
- Two lives intertwined by war: one soldier died, one survived
HOLIDAY, Fla. – Rita Richardson smiles at the memory: her young son Dan, prowling the woods dressed in camouflage and green face paint or jumping off the shed like a paratrooper. But she wanted her little commando to know that war was more than a game.
- Feds cite 8 suspected bribes for Jefferson
WASHINGTON – The FBI is focusing on at least eight suspected bribery schemes as part of its corruption probe of embattled Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., according to a federal affidavit and sources familiar with the investigation.
- Immigrants are forest firefighters
SALEM, Ore. – The debate over immigration, which has filtered into almost every corner of American life in recent months, is now sweeping through the woods, and the implications could be immense for the upcoming fire season in the West.
- 2006 VOTE | LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Established players wage intense battle for a no-power post
SACRAMENTO – California's lieutenant governors have long battled the inherent frustrations of an all-bark, no-power post.
- Minutemen to build 10-mile fence on ranch at border
PALOMINAS, Ariz. – Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch yesterday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.
- REGION UPDATE
Judge gives swindler 30 years in prison
SANTA ANA – An Orange County man was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay back the $156 million he bilked from about 1,600 people in a Ponzi scheme that spanned more than two decades.
- Senate panel wants intel costs made public
WASHINGTON – The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has approved language in the fiscal 2007 authorization bill that calls on the president to annually make public what the National Intelligence Program costs.
- U.S. is seeking dismissal of eavesdropping lawsuits
NEW YORK – The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets.
- NATION UPDATE
Doctor throws kids, himself off balcony
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A doctor killed his two young children yesterday by throwing them off the 15th floor of a landmark South Beach hotel and then jumped to his own death, police said.
- Battle over Kerry's service continues, but now he's fighting back
Three decades after the Vietnam War and nearly two years after Sen. John Kerry's unsuccessful presidential bid, most Americans have probably forgotten why it ever mattered whether he went to Cambodia or that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth accused him of making it all up, saying he was dishonest and lacked patriotism.
- In Poland, pope hopes for John Paul's sainthood soon
KRAKOW, Poland – Pope Benedict XVI, making sentimental stops in his predecessor's homeland, brought joy to Poles by announcing that he hopes John Paul II will be made a saint “in the near future.”
- 8 killed, dozens injured as Islamic militiamen, rivals clash in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Islamic militiamen and rival secular fighters traded machine-gun, rocket and mortar fire in Somalia's capital yesterday, killing at least eight and wounding a dozen as residents fled.
- The Week in Mexico
Rómulo O'Farrill Jr. dies: Rómulo O'Farrill Jr., who owned a number of newspapers, including The Mexico City News, died after a long illness. He was 88. The News ceased publication in 2002.
- Bird flu drug maker put on alert after fatal Indonesian cases
KUBU SIMBELANG, Indonesia – The biggest case yet of humans infecting others with bird flu prompted the World Health Organization to put the maker of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu on alert for possible shipment of the global stockpile for the first time, officials said yesterday.
- WORLD UPDATE
Sri Lanka could face war, envoy cautions
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A top Norwegian envoy warned yesterday that Sri Lanka could be headed toward war, even as the parties agreed in principle to meet for talks to discuss the safety of Scandinavian cease-fire monitors.
- Gay activists beaten, arrested in Moscow
MOSCOW – Gay rights activists were pummeled by right-wing protesters and detained by police yesterday, preventing them from putting on a display of gay pride in defiance of a city ban.
- Influential Iranian urges nuclear talks with U.S.
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's former parliament speaker yesterday urged direct talks with the United States to break down the “walls of mistrust,” but said Tehran would not give up the right to produce nuclear fuel and pursue other technological advances.
- Abbas deadline on peace plan is rejected by Hamas leaders
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Hamas rejected a deadline yesterday that was set by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept a plan that indirectly calls for recognition of Israel.
- N.Y. Times aide in Beijing is facing trial
BEIJING – A Chinese researcher in The New York Times Beijing bureau will be tried for fraud and divulging state secrets.
- 2 crew members missing after helicopter crash
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A U.S. Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter crashed yesterday and its two crew members were missing in Anbar province, a volatile area west of the capital where insurgents are active. Hostile fire was not suspected as the cause of the crash, the U.S. military said.
- Women in the war zone
FORT DIX, N.J. – Riding in a supply convoy through Baugi, Iraq, Army Spec. Nicola Harvey was on the lookout for trouble: a rocket-propelled grenade, a roadside bomb, sniper fire.
- Daily developments
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