Sen. John Warner (R-VA) — who has been increasingly critical of the war — announced today that he will not “seek a sixth term.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that “Iran has slowed enrichment of uranium and increased cooperation with the agency.”

A new report prepared by the U.S. embassy in Iraq concludes that Maliki’s government is “not capable of even rudimentary enforcement of anticorruption laws.” Even worse, “the report notes that Maliki’s office has impeded investigations of fraud and crime within the government.”

“In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq,” the pentagon “won’t make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month’s strategy assessment.”

As part of a White House effort to water-down negative reports on Iraq, the Pentagon is pressuring the GAO to revise some of its negative assessments.

A new report by the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog group, argues that since Democrats outnumbered Republicans in campaign segments on the morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC, the three major networks are “actively promoting the Democrats’ liberal agenda.”

While conservatives may tout the report as evidence of the media’s liberal bias, its conclusion falls apart under scrutiny.

- Democrats provided networks with more events to cover: During the six month study period, the Democratic candidates appeared in nine televised debates, while the Republicans only appeared in four.

- Republicans are reluctant to go on the air: According to ‘Today’ executive producer Jim Bell, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson “both have standing invitations to appear on ‘Today’… Giuliani has been on once and Thompson has repeatedly refused the network he recently worked for.” Moreover, while Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) have both agreed to appear in a Good Morning America town meeting, “none of the Republicans have committed.”

- Misclassifies personal-story segments as campaign segments: The center’s report includes segments on Elizabeth Edwards’ battle with cancer and the historic nature of Hillary Clinton’s and Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) candidacies.

- Cherry-picks campaign segments: Studies which have analyzed complete program guest lists have found that conservative sources far outweigh their liberal counterparts.

While the report calls on the major news networks to provide viewers with “fair and even-handed” coverage, the Media Research Center loudly applauds the conservative bias of political talk radio. Thus, it seems that the center is more interested in advocating a conservative political ideology than instituting meaningful media reform.

Texas to execute “third death row inmate this week” today. The inmate was convicted of “abetting a killing — 80 feet away — that he might, or might not, have had reason to anticipate.”

In a rebuke of the White House’s rosy Iraq assessment, a new report finds that “Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress.”

The average CEO “made roughly $10.8 million last year, or 364 times that of U.S. full-time and part-time workers.”

153: number of foreign troops who have died in Afghanistan since January, indicating that “the insurgency has deepened year-on-year.”