Portal:United States/2006 August

Katie Couric debuts with CBS Evening News saying "Hi, everyone," "I'm very happy to be here." She then quickly introduced a story about the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

A shooting has been reported at Essex Town Elementary School in Essex, Vermont, and at least one female staff member and someone else are reported injuried.(WCAX)(Reuters)

Search teams off of the Aleutian Islands discover what may be the remains of the World War II submarine USS Grunion.
Ford to shut 10 plants in North America temporarily as it slashes production by 21%. (CNN Money)
United States district court judge Williams Alsup orders Greg Anderson, the personal trainer of Barry Bonds to testify before a Grand Jury about use of steroids by athletes. (Bloomberg)
Thai police claim that John Mark Karr has confessed to the murder of JonBenét Ramsey. Karr tells reporters after the press conference that he was with the child when she died but didn't mean to kill her. (CBS)

August 16, 2006 (Wednesday)

Former U.S. President Gerald Ford is admitted to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. (Reuters)
New Jersey Transit says that service has been suspended between New York's Penn Station and Secaucus due to a suspicious item found on the tracks east of the Secaucus junction. (WABC New York)

A terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. (BBC) (CNN) (News.com.au)
In Marietta, Ohio, United States two men were arrested on money laundering in support of terrorism. They were found with lists of travelers on airplanes and information on airport security checkpoints. (Associated Press)

CBS News's Mike Wallace holds an interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. In the interview, Ahmadinejad said that the letter he sent to George W. Bush was meant to "open a window towards the light" for Bush to "see that one can look on the world through a different perspective." He responded to his nation's nuclear program and possible weapons program saying that Iran was "studying" the offer presented by the United States and the European Union. He also claimed that Bush "believes that his power emanates from his nuclear warhead arsenals." (CBS News)
In the closest-watched U.S. political campaign of 2006, Ned Lamont defeats Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Connecticut Democrats, some of the country's most liberal, are the first to make an attempt to remove a sitting U.S. Senator for supporting the War in Iraq. (CBS)
Amid news of slower-than expected growth and a quarterly rise in the unemployment rate in the United States, Federal Reserve System Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that there will be no increase to the Fed fund rate, ending a two-year period of rising interest rates. (Bloomberg)

- A US military hearing has examined the testimony by one of the accused in an incident where a 14-year-old girl and three family members in Mahmudiya were allegedly killed by four US soldiers after the girl's rape in March. (BBC)
Oil price futures hit a record high for one blend of crude oil (Brent crude) after BP found corrosion damage to the Alaskan pipeline and cut production in Prudhoe Bay 50%. (Associated Press)(BBC)
AOL publicly releases 20 million unfiltered search keywords for 500,000 users, containing personally identifiable information about users' search habits. (TechCrunch)

August 5, 2006 (Saturday)

Cyclist Floyd Landis, winner of the 2006 Tour de France, returns a positive B sample for excess testosterone. (BBC)

Arizona police in the United States announce the arrests of two men who are accused of 35 attacks and murders. (azfamily)

August 3, 2006 (Thursday)

Four US soldiers charged with murdering three detainees in Iraq smiled before shooting them, a military court has heard from a fellow soldier.(BBC NEWS)
The top US commander in the Middle East, Gen John Abizaid, has said Iraq could move toward civil war if the sectarian violence is not stopped.(BBC NEWS)