New York’s currently: post-monsoon sunshine

 State Department analysts found dozens of misleading conclusions in Powell U.N. speech, drafts of which came from the Cheney office. [PDF of report]

 With four countries gone and four about to leave, the international coalition in Iraq is steadily dismantling.

 Police Department figures out where to stow demonstrators during the Republican National Convention.

He told investigators he had no idea how many laws he broke during a three-day excursion that took him 300 miles from home.  Delaware student regrets eating hallucinogenic mushrooms.

 While the Senate blocked the proposal for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, the Senators, gay and straight alike, threatened to out each other.

 Sadr militia said to be rearming in Iraq with the help of Iranian agents.

 Pentagon says the threat of attack means it needs to shut down its daycare; parents think they really want to install a helipad.

 Man starts successful business cleaning up the leftovers from crime scenes.

 Already under scrutiny, suspicion, Florida readies its brand-new touch-screen voting machines.

 “‘Jumbo’ strictly refers to Boeing 747. No other planes are called ‘Jumbo Jets.’” The words we thought we knew and the ways we misuse them.

 Flash: Paste together a G.W.B. speech, then watch him say it.

 “To the Court’s knowledge, there is no Mattel line of ‘S&M Barbie ’.”

 Play Pac-Man on a Mondrian: Pac-Mondrian.

 A young man in the Congolese jungle wears a T-shirt that pleads: “Beam me up, Scotty.” How discarded clothes from the West make their way to poor communities in Africa.

 1974 interview decides Brian Eno not popular with Texas oilmen but with their sons.

 TMN pledges bear hugs to yesterday’s two hunny-givers.