The News Sieve

- Possible new House Appropriations chair Ralph Regula (R-Ohio) used $2 million in earmarks to give his wife a national park: the First Ladies National Historic Site in his home district. (Since 2002, he’s also hooked up more than $20 million in earmarks for Timken, a Canton, Ohio manufacturer and the second-biggest donor to Regula’s campaigns.)

- Ed Keshi, an American photojournalist detained for four days says the Nigerian Navy was wrong to arrest him. Keshi was arrested on Friday while taking photographs of an oil facility in the Bayelsa state and was only released after interventions at the highest levels of government, says his wife. (African News Dimension)

- Interrogation of mentally ill Al Qaeda suspect, Abu Zubaydah, led U.S. to follow plenty of false leads, according to Ron Suskind’s new book, “The One Percent Doctrine.” (Think Progress)

- As we reported recently, small nonprofits are struggling to raise funds to deal with any disasters during the current hurricane season. And they didn’t get much support to help Katrina survivors either.

- Yahoo is the worst offender when it comes to censoring its search engine, according to tests done on Chinese versions of Yahoo, Google, MSN and even the local competitor Baidu. (Reporter Without Borders)

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