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If you need any further proof parity resides in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, consider this: Of the 10 winningest programs in college history, only 1 has reached the Sweet 16 this year, the lowest number in 24 years.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test for mad cow disease in every animal it processes. The Agriculture Department has said no. Creekstone intends to sue the department.
High-speed Internet access and the spread of sophisticated wireless devices, combined with savvy marketers and self-promoters have redefined how, where and when millions get their laughs. Comedy is being propelled to the same kind of transformation t
Lost chemical canisters and some suspect handrails will prevent astronauts on the International Space Station from doing any spacewalking in the near future.
China has accused the US of severely undermining the world trade system and insisted US policies were to blame for the huge trade deficit between the 2 nations. The US often failed to comply with WTO rulings by citing national security concerns.
A divided US Supreme Court ruled that the police cannot enter a home and seize evidence without a warrant when one occupant agreed to the search after the other occupant refused permission.
[Mighty white of them.] In what would be a key change in US policy, the Pentagon may formally require military prosecutors to observe a UN convention against torture in their use of evidence during tribunals at the Guantanamo prison camp.
[Nice, but not much of a story.] US and Iraqi forces freed a British and 2 Canadian hostages in a military operation, ending a 4 month hostage drama in which an American among the group was shot to death and dumped on a Baghdad street.
The United States has informally asked Japan to suspend its plans to develop an Iranian oil field. Resource-poor Japan has been planning to develop Iran's Azadegan oil field, estimated to hold the world's second-biggest single oil reserve, de
In an era of methodical, scripted play from coaches and me-first basketball by No. 1 options and No. 1a egos, the Mike D'Antoni-coached and Steve Nash-run Phoenix Suns are a refreshing anomaly, harking to another time.
At least 3 men who have been identified as MZM employees worked as professional staff for the Robb-Silberman Commission, the White House panel which investigated the shortcomings of US pre-war intelligence.
Research paper by two leading academics on US-Israel relationship ignites controversy. [multiple links]
Radioactive plutonium used in nuclear weapons could have a far longer useful life than previously estimated, raising questions about the need for an expensive Bush administration program to build more than a thousand replacement warheads.
But one of plutonium's most unusual characteristics is that while the plutonium atoms are decaying, another process is under way, called self-annealing. This process repairs the atomic structure, making the plutonium more stable.
The 37-year-old optometrist was unarmed, he had no history of violence and displayed no threatening behaviour. But he had been under investigation for illegal gambling and a heavily armed team was at his home to serve a search warrant.
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said the Palestinian militant group will continue to fight Israel and the US's Middle East policy would fuel terrorism. "Israel cannot have stability with occupation. It has to choose. Armed resistance is legitima
Russia and China pledged to cooperate more closely in producing oil and gas, and the Russian president vowed to go forward with a much-anticipated pipeline to carry Siberian oil to fuel China's booming economy.
Basque separatist group ETA declared a permanent ceasefire in its struggle for independence from Spain. A ceasefire would be the first step in a long-awaited peace process with ETA, which has killed 850 people since 1968 in its fight to carve an inde
Taxpayers not paying attention to the forms prepared for them by commercial tax preparers could soon find their personal financial information being sold more widely to data brokers and marketers.
Whitaker is one of the few farmers in the United States to employ legal immigrant guest-workers. Others are not exactly lining up to join the program.
Supreme Court debated whether government employees have free-speech rights where a prosecutor was demoted after urging his supervisors to drop a case because he believed a sheriff's deputy lied in a search warrant affidavit.
Orwell's Internal Revenue Service - A Treasury Department December press release announcing that your tax return and mine will soon be up for sale to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in great shape after its arrival at the planet on March 10. Now being readied to produce its first images of Mars this week. University of Arizona's super-powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment camer
The United States supports Israel not because of "shared values" and "democracy", but rather because for four decades Israel's actions - particularly those that ostensibly harm the chances for peace - have served US goals in t
[http://finance.google.com/finance] The finance section Google Inc. continues a philosophical shift that's turning its once-pure Internet search engine into an all-purpose Web site interested in getting people to stick around instead of sending
The headquarters supervisor of the FBI's international terrorism operations section testified he spent about 20 seconds discussing the case of Zacarias Moussaoui before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Later he acknowledged an additional discussion.
A corporate-backed watchdog group that monitors software for deceptive and abusive practices named a widely used file-sharing program, Kazaa, and 3 other applications as violators of its guidelines.
“It wouldn’t have taken a brain surgeon to find me any time. It must be to send a message to the young guys in Iraq not to desert. Why else would they suddenly be chasing down old men?” Mr McQueen is not the only Vietnam deserter arrested wh
Stressing that he hoped to help the league avoid what was a fractious process of a finding a replacement for his immediate predecessor, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said he will end his 16-year tenure at the end of July.
Members of Iran's Jewish community fear they are being set up to take the blame if President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's drive to establish a nuclear program ends badly for the country. Members of the 30,000-strong community say they already are be
