A Government Accountability Office study bolstered a Republican senator’s efforts to force Amtrak's rail service to accommodate gun toting riders or face shutdown. The GAO ruled an amendment inserted into a transportation funding bill was law, erasin
A federal judge has ruled that border agents cannot seize a traveler's laptop, keep it locked up for months, and examine it for contraband files without a warrant half a year later.
For the first time ever, astronomers have captured images of an exoplanet orbiting its star from one side of the star to the other. The orbit of the exoplanet is at about the same distance as that of Saturn to our Sun. After interpreting the data, sc
Officers are generally forbidden from issuing citations if police can't accurately identify the suspect. In those cases, the suspects will likely be booked into jail to await a hearing in front of a judge.
"Sailing and life in general is dangerous. Teenagers drive cars. Does that mean teenagers shouldn't drive a car?" Laurence Sunderland told the AP. "I think people who hold that opinion have lost their zeal for life. They're living in a cotton-wool tu
The Obama administration doubled its minimum estimate of how much crude oil was gushing from the Deepwater Horizon oil well, saying a panel of scientists had concluded that 20,000 to 50,000 barrels, or as much as 2.1 million gallons, were pouring int
Cash-poor New York state might have to pay its bills with IOUs next week to avoid the "anarchy in the streets" that could result from a government shutdown, Governor David Paterson said.
In the past few weeks the U.S. has witnessed an aggressive crack down on whistleblowers. For many the Obama administration's tough investigative stance on unauthorized press leaks goes against the president's own election promises to
The state is the dominant mode of societal organization in our world today. States are proliferating at a rate of 3.1 additional states per year, with the U.N. growing from some 50 members in 1950 to to 191 members today (28, The Untied States of Ame
Helen Thomas, the legendary doyenne of the Washington press corps, recently resigned her position after making the remark that the Jews should decamp Palestine and set off for Poland, Germany, and the United States. It was an impolitic and downright
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington D.C. a few months ago, the President barely gave the man a moment of his time. He actually left Netanyahu to speak with someone else while he went to get something to eat. Obama did n
Austin nurser and mother turns the tables on the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force when she video tapes two FBI Agents who have come to her door step questioning her about anti - Israeli activities.
Johnson, the city's lone African-American City Council member, was handcuffed and pushed to the ground in the March 19 predawn altercation during a house fire in Johnson's south Phoenix neighborhood.
The officer, Brian Authement, had accused Johns
Chinn was arrested for DUI and put in the trooper's car. That's when Chinn noticed, on the trooper's dashboard, a computer printout with a picture of Chinn's parents' vehicle, a Ford Explorer. He'd been driving it the day before. Today he was driving
Gov. Bill Ritter on Monday signed two bills passed by lawmakers this session to rein in the estimated 1,100 medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up around the state.
Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports.
Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the founder of Wikileaks for fear he may publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Da
For example, while flying on a small plane from New Orleans to Orange Beach, the pilot suddenly exclaimed, "Look at that!" The thin red line marking the federal flight restrictions of 3,000 feet over the oiled Gulf region had just jumped to include..
"The bottom line is we have this new technology which is extremely effective,” said Goyal. “This study involved patients with large strokes associated with much higher levels of disability and death and we have the potential to be able to give them
When they finished they took a knife and expanded the wound he already had in his stomach. They cut his ab muscles horizontally and by hand spilled his guts out.
The best political jokes and political/social commentary is almost always late at night. Here’s some of the best from the past week. THIS WEEK: Pretty Good.
As a reminder to readers – Section 2 of Roosevelt’s Act read as follows: All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System
Appearing on the Alex Jones Show on June 10, 2010, paster Lindsey Williams reveals the real threat posed by the leak. The Obama administration and BP are doing everything they can to hide the ominous truth. You must share this video...