from yahoo:

• Bush braces for trouble back in US
Domestic challenges

SOFIA, Bulgaria - President Bush braced for problems at home Monday with the cheers from his European trip still ringing in his ears.

He pledged to resurrect his derailed immigration bill in the Senate—"I'll see you at the bill signing," he declared—and dismissed Democrats' effort to hold a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a waste of time.

• US general: Iran may be aiding both Afghan gov't, Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan - Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO's top general here said Monday.

• Court: US can't detain suspected combatant without charges

RICHMOND, Va. - The Bush administration cannot legally detain a US resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.

now get this:

Al-Marri has been held in solitary confinement in the Navy brig in Charleston, SC, since June 2003. The Qatar native has been detained since his December 2001 arrest at his home in Peoria, IL, where he moved with his wife and five children a day before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to study for a master's degree at Bradley University.

some sleeper, eh?


• Judge voids 10-year sentence in teen sex case
Wilson case

ATLANTA - A Georgia judge ordered the release Monday of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, a sentence that had been widely criticized as grossly disproportionate to the crime.

• Drinking water at North Carolina Marine base under scrutiny

ATLANTA - Thousands of Marines and their families went to serve their country at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune.

Instead, many wound up fighting it, blaming the government for failing to protect them from an enemy that invaded their lives in a most intimate way: through the water that quenched their thirst, cooked their food and filled their bathtubs every day.

from c-span:

· Senate Plans No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales Today

WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday he will vote for a no-confidence resolution against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

· Pres. Bush Calls Senate No-Confidence Resolution "Political"

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday he will vote for a no-confidence resolution against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, after long questioning the leadership and independence of President Bush's longtime friend.

· Federal Court Rules in Favor of Enemy Combatant Detainee

RICHMOND, Va. - The Bush administration cannot use new anti-terrorism laws to keep US residents locked up indefinitely without charging them, a divided federal appeals court said Monday.

· Supreme Court: Superfund Money Can Reimburse Voluntary Expenses

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strengthened a landmark anti-pollution program Monday, enabling companies to recover costs when they voluntarily clean up hazardous material.

· Pres. Bush Calls for Release of Bulgarian Nurses Held in Libya

SOFIA (Reuters) - President George W Bush said on Monday it was a high priority for the United States to win the release of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV.

· Army Fails to Meet Its Recruiting Goal in May

The Army failed to make its May recruiting goal, the first time since last September that it came up short, the Pentagon announced Monday. But despite growing domestic discontent over the direction of the war in Iraq, the Marine Corps signed up 560 more recruits last month than it had hoped to enlist.