Dick Cheney once again gets to go snarl on television. Meanwhile, Biden smiles. Keep smiling, Biden!

NATO rockets kill 12 civilians during a much-publicized offensive against the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan.

A bomb in a restaurant kills foreign tourists in India, near Muslim and Jewish religious centers.

Ammonia leaks on an astronaut while he's building a new section on the International Space Station.

Around 10,000 Germans form a "human chain" to stop a neo-Nazi march in Dresden.

German neo-Nazis are looking pretty, um, conservative these days.
  • German neo-Nazis are looking pretty, um, conservative these days.

Conservatives in Texas
say the Founding Fathers wanted the USA to be a Christian nation. Read all about it in today's Times Magazine.

Google Buzz: One dude raves about it, while Google scrambles to make it a little less sinister and invasive.

The Olympics started already, apparently. Guy with the coolest name ever wins silver, and luge events resume on a shortened track after Friday's deadly accident.

Portland's teachers and its school district might finally have a contract, but everybody's keeping mum until it's agreed upon.

The Clackamas County sheriff's sergeant opens fire in a bar, kills his wife and himself.