As fighting continued, Israeli officials suggested that ground troops may take a more active role. Stronger condemnations today were heard of Israel’s massive use of force in Lebanon.
A controversial TV campaign ad for Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine featuring video of the burning World Trade Center towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks was doctored, U.S. News has learned. The television spot, which has been lambasted by critics as political exploitation, attacks DeWine's Democratic challenger, Rep. Sherrod Brown, for being weak on national security.
Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition executive director whose ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff dogged him in his run for lieutenant governor in Georgia, lost his Republican primary yesterday to Casey Cagle, a state senator. In recent days, Reed had enlisted the help of national figures like former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Georgia Sen. Zell Miller in making automated calls to voters on his behalf, but the constant spotlighting of the Reed-Abramoff connection by his opponent and the news media forced him to run a lower-profile campaign.
AP - Israeli troops met fierce resistance from Hezbollah guerrillas Thursday as they crossed into Lebanon to seek tunnels and weapons for a second straight day, and Israel hinted at a full-scale invasion.
AP - The governor sent in the National Guard to evacuate people from their sweltering homes Thursday after storms knocked out power to nearly half a million St. Louis-area households and businesses in the middle of a searing heat wave that has killed at least 17 people across the country.
AP - President Bush, addressing the NAACP after skipping its convention for five years, said Thursday he knows racism exists in America and that many black voters distrust his Republican Party.
An American couple and their children, stranded in Beirut for more than a week, boarded the USS Nashville on Thursday to start home, their relief mixed with sadness over the plight of a city they love.
Marines help hundreds escape from LebanonNavy hopes to ferry 1,200 Americans onto the Nashville by tonightNo plans yet to help several hundred Americans in southern LebanonFirst plane of evacuees lands in Baltimore