Letter From Bill Keller on The Times's Banking Records Report  —  The following is a letter Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, has sent to readers who have written him about The Times's publication of information about the government's examination of international banking records:

Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts in Iraq  —  Pentagon Plan Like Theirs, Senators Say  —  Senate Democrats reacted angrily yesterday to a report that the U.S. commander in Iraq had privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack …

Al-Qaida-Linked Group Claims 4 Killings  —  Al-Qaida-Linked Group Says It Killed 4 Russian Diplomats in Iraq, Posts Video Showing 3 Slayings  —  CAIRO, Egypt Jun 25, 2006 (AP)— An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Sunday showing the killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq.

After Londonistan  —  SAFER NEIGHBORHOODS?  To Sir Ian Blair, top left, London's police commissioner, much of the answer to terrorism lies in developing a rapport between the police and residents of heavily Muslim communities like Brick Lane, Whitechapel and Forest Gate, bottom left …

Al-Aksa claims biological, chemical capabilities  —  The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades group announced on Sunday that it its members have succeeded in manufacturing chemical and biological weapons to be used against Israel.  —  In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group …

Family life faces State 'invasion'  —  Government surveillance of all children, including information on whether they eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, will be condemned tomorrow as a Big Brother system.  —  Experts say it is the biggest state intrusion in history into the role of parents.

Al-Jazeera, as American as Apple Pie  —  In a country's hinterlands, a distant region seldom visited by outsiders, a television crew investigates why so many residents are fleeing the area.  When local officials catch wind of the crew's presence, they begin interrogating people the journalists interviewed …

Bizarre cult of Sears Tower 'plotter'  —  Paul Thompson, Miami, and Sarah Baxter, Washington  —  THE ringleader of the seven men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago was a "Moses-like figure" who carried a crooked cane and wore a cape as he sought to recruit followers to a religious cult called the Seas of David.

Warren Buffett gives away his fortune  —  FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Saddam's WMD  —  Why is our intelligence community holding back?  —  On Wednesday, at our request, the director of national intelligence declassified six "key points" from a National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) report on the recovery of chemical munitions in Iraq.

GILLIARD-GATE:  —  Steve Gilliard claims that he did not write the email I attributed to him in this post.  After doing some further investigating, I'm afraid to say that he is correct.  He did not write that email.  I apologize to Gilliard for not checking with him before publishing my post, and I regret the error.

Scalia twisted my words  —  Criminologist says his work was used to reach its opposite conclusion in {lt}i{gt}Hudson{lt}/i{gt}.  —  A FRIEND OF mine e-mailed me last week with some exciting news — the Supreme Court had cited one of my criminal justice policy books in an important, late-term decision.