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  • Ground will be broken at the Pentagon on Thursday for a memorial to the victims who died there on Sept. 11, 2001. There will be 184 benches lining the path American Airlines Flight 77 took before smashing into the Pentagon.
  • The Supreme Court rules that police in Michigan can use the evidence they gathered in a search warrant at a home, even though they waited only a few seconds after announcing their presence before entering the house. In the past, the justices have wanted police to wait longer.
  • President Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to try to help with the infant formula shortage. Suppliers must direct needed ingredients to formula manufacturers before filling other orders.
  • Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic photo of six U.S. servicemen raising the flag over Iwo Jima in World War II, has died in California. He was 94. Rosenthal got his picture at the end of a bloody five-week battle that left 6,800 American troops dead.
  • A story in Friday's New York Times alleges that U.S. Marines may have destroyed evidence sought by military officials investigating the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians -- including women and children -- in the town of Haditha last November.
  • Hurricane Katrina washed away Lucio Cano's home and the Mexican restaurant he owned in Pass Christian, Miss. After the storm, the entrepreneur opened the first Latin American food store in the Waveland and Bay St. Louis area.
  • A Shiite religious ceremony in southern Baghdad is again marred by violence when gunmen open fire on pilgrims, killing 20. The annual event, which drew hundreds of thousands, was disrupted last year when rumors of suicide bombers in the crowds sparked a stampede that killed more than 1,000.
  • Fierce battles have been raging in Afghanistan recently, making it the country's deadliest summer since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Hundreds of Afghans and scores of soldiers from U.S.-led forces have died.
  • A teacher named John Mark Karr says he was responsible for the death of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey in 1996. Now in Thai custody, Karr is expected to be returned to the U.S. for further investigation. Colorado authorites have been guarded in their comments about Karr's arrest.
  • Hollywood does not regard summer as a time for costume epics, unless the costumes are made of spandex. Historical movies tend to be released in the fall. But The Illusionist, a romantic drama set in the early 1900s, is bucking that tradition.
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