June 28, 2006 (Wednesday)
- The Supreme Court of the United States, with a 5-4 vote, upholds the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting map, which was challenged as a violation of the Voting Rights Act through gerrymandering. (Washington Post)
- The United States Senate approves former Goldman Sachs executive, Henry Paulson, to be the next Secretary of the Treasury. (Boston Globe)
- Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania area are ordered to evacuate their homes due to the rising level of the Susquehanna River. 46 of 67 of PA's counties are under a state of emergency. Flooding is also occurring in a surrounding states, including New York, where Governor George Pataki states "This is the worst flooding by far I’ve seen in my 12 years as governor." (CBS News Alert) (FOX News)
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“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
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The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)