Today's Details

-President Bush has authorized the U.S. Marine Corps to recall 2,500 troops to active duty because there are not enough volunteers returning for duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, Marine commanders announced Tuesday. DETAILS

-Republican Sen. John McCain, a staunch defender of the Iraq war, on Tuesday faulted the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing the conflict would be "some kind of day at the beach."The potential 2008 presidential candidate, who a day earlier had rejected calls for withdrawing U.S. forces, said the administration had failed to make clear the challenges facing the military. DETAILS

-Two polls show Lamont closing the gap. DETAILS

-Critics of Sen. Joe Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot. DETAILS

-NY Time's eavesdropping story wasn't the only one squashed for Bush during 2004 campaign. DETAILS

-Max Mayfield, director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center, says there's plenty of potential for a storm worse than Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,339 people along the U.S. Gulf coast and caused some $80 billion in damage last August. "People think we have seen the worst. We haven't," Mayfield told Reuters in an interview at the fortress-like hurricane center in Florida. DETAILS

-Newt is back. Recently, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gave a speech at the Brookings Institution. Mr Gingrich stated that, if there remained a "vacuum" in the Republican field of canidates seeking the 2008 presidential nomination, he would throw his hat in the ring. Mr Gingrich left Congress seven years ago after his failed leadership during the Clinton impeachment debacle. He is once again a rising star among conservatives who are hungry for a bright, principled and articulate champion. (Now, I'll agree that Newt can 'talk some shit'. However , if he is so bright and principled why is his tenure as House Speaker being referred to as a failure? A skunk in a suit and tie - is still a skunk! ) DETAILS

-The No. 2 State Department official met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified that an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame. Official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage held a one-hour meeting marked "private appointment" with Woodward on June 13, 2003. DETAILS