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The death-penalty trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is back on track after a judge reversed course and agreed to admit some evidence about aviation security. US District Judge Brinkema relented from her earlier order barring all such t
There, American soldiers made one of the former Iraqi government's torture chambers into their own interrogation cell named the Black Room. In the windowless room, some soldiers beat prisoners with rifle butts, yelled and spit in their faces and,
The Security Council is inching toward agreeing a revised Franco-British draft urging Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, diplomats said as China suggested that Tehran be given up to six weeks to do so.
Before Bush arrived, 2 men approached him identifying themselves as members of the media. He said the men told him they were with Fox News, and were on a "scouting mission" for a story on new construction. They took pictures inside Akins
A federal appeals court struck down a Bush administration rule that would have made it easier for coal-burning power plants to make equipment changes without installing controls to fight the pollution that would result.
[The payback and interest rate's a bitch!] The US Senate approved a $781 billion increase in US borrowing authority aimed at averting a possible government default on debt this month. No Democrats voted for raising the debt limit, leaving Republi
A $2.8 trillion election-year budget blueprint that narrowly passed the Senate forsakes President Bush's tax cuts and Medicare curbs and smashes his cap on spending, disappointing GOP loyalists anxious to see their party stem the flow of federal
A new poll finds that a plurality of Americans favor plans to censure President Bush, while a surprising 42% favor moves to actually impeach the President. Only 57% of Republicans oppose the censure. 47% of Independents want impeachment.
[They use your cell phone on the outside.] California prison officials have begun using Global Positioning System anklets to track known gang members. "GPS tracking is just another tool in the bag," said a spokesman for the corrections depa
Chinese AIDS activists called for the release of fellow rights worker Hu Jia, who vanished a month ago, while his wife said she still had no idea where he was and was becoming increasingly worried. Hu went missing after protesting the government'
Lawyers for 2 airlines being sued by 9/11 victims prompted a federal attorney to coach witnesses in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial so the government's case against the al-Qaida conspirator would not undercut their defense, victims
An autopsy and preliminary tests on Slobodan Milosevic's blood found no evidence of poison or medicines in concentrations that could have killed him, the UN war crimes tribunal said. No traces were found of rifampicine, which a Dutch toxicologist
"In this sea of government attorneys and agents who have assiduously played by the rules, Ms. Martin stands as the lone miscreant." "Her aberrant and apparently criminal behavior should not be the basis for undoing the good work of
2 US senators proposed legislation that would establish a new ".XXX" domain for racy or sexually explicit websites. The bill calls to exclude sexually charged content from established website domain names such as .gov, .com, .org, .net, and
Liberal hues began to multiply in 2004, when Democrats seized control of the general assembly for the first time in 30 years. They intensified last fall, when voters loosened TABOR, a government- spending chastity belt long extolled by fiscal conserv
As the UN Security Council wrestles with how to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, discussion at UN headquarters is at times as much about the council's effectiveness and America's role in the international community as it is about Iran.
The latest poll might sound like a broken record, but the tune grows louder as congressional midterm elections get closer and closer: An electorate that greatly prefers a Democratic controlled Congress over a Republican controlled one.
Iraqi Shi'ite religious leaders' restraining influence on militia groups is waning fast and senior clerics fear they are dragging Iraq into civil war, a source close to the clerical authorities said. Sounding the most urgent note of alarm yet
A newly discovered, perfectly preserved fossil of a 150 million-year-old dinosaur found in southern Germany may force scientists to rethink how and when feathers evolved. Unlike other members of the group of 2-legged meat-eating predators known as co
State prosecutors seized four computers from a newsroom as part of a grand jury probe into whether a county coroner gave reporters his password to a secure law enforcement Web site, the newspaper said.
A group of 18 corporate giants intends to share information, issue cease-and-desist orders to offenders, and try to expand its reach to almost every financial institution that matters. The aim: to snuff out the spread of smut by 2008.
Thousands of victims duped into slavery or prostitution in the United States fail to get help, even though U.S. prosecutions of human traffickers are on the rise, a report released on Wednesday said.
Children, including a baby, were sexually molested while others in a private Internet chat room watched, U.S. and Canadian law enforcement officers said in announcing the bust of an international child pornography ring. [Good timing.]
As if the distractions of the March Madness tournament didn't bedevil bosses enough, advances in technology could reduce productivity to a crawl this year. There's CBS SportsLine.com's free webcast of 56 NCAA men's basketball games i
A Dubai-owned company is giving itself up to six months to sell all $700 million worth of its newly acquired U.S. port operations to an American buyer, a plan forced by congressional concerns over terrorism security.
The current Arizona Governor, Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, has reportedly been complying with these rules, as she recently vowed to attend "50 parties in 50 hours" one weekend, in order to secure those Lincolnesque donations from the requi
[Lotsa luck!] Republicans, worried that their conservative base lacks motivation to turn out for the fall elections, have found a new rallying cry in the dreams of liberals about censuring or impeaching President Bush.
Pakistan is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and was long regarded as a de facto nuclear power that "could assemble a limited number of nuclear weapons in a relatively short timeframe." India’s May 11 and 13, 1998, nuclea
Sony will put off the release of its much awaited PlayStation 3 console until November. Issues over the finalization of copy protection technology related to the Blu-ray disc drive were the cause for the delay. The delay would allow for the latest HD
Undaunted by the difficult war in Iraq, President Bush reaffirmed his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy nations and said Iran may pose the biggest challenge for America.
