Welcome to August.

Good evening, news from all over.

Here we are at the end of the week and almost at the end of June, 2012. Hope you’ve got a great weekend awaiting you.

News you can use.

On this day in 1789 James Madison introduced twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution in the US House of Representatives. By 1791, ten of them had been ratified and became known as The Bill of Rights.

Here’s your news for this first Wednesday in June. Please add links to additional items you’d like to share.

Has there been a flurry of news articles! Here’re the ones I managed to catch. Please share ones from your stash, too.

With DDay’s return from vacation imminent, it’s time for me to pack up, tidy up and depart. I enjoyed trying to round up the daily news on the many varying topics of interest to all of you. Thanks for joining in and enriching the experience.

Here’re some of the more interesting news items I saw today. Please feel free to add others that caught your attention but that I may have missed.

Good evening! Here are some of the more interesting items gleaned today from the Internets, beginning with the Middle East.