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Israelis voted in a historic election seen as a referendum on the future of the West Bank, with the leading candidate, acting Prime Minister Olmert, promising to pull back from most of the territory and draw Israel's final borders by 2010.
President Bush announced the resignation of White House chief of staff Andy Card on Wednesday and replaced him with budget director Joshua Bolten, saying "the next three years will demand much of those who serve our country."
Immigrant supporters claimed their first major victory since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks after a bipartisan group of senators approved legislation that would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship.
General Motors Corp. is expected to start cutting thousands of US salaried workers as part of a sweeping restructuring aimed at stemming losses and market share, a source close to the situation said. Cuts will be in the engineering division, the sour
An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison after the case was dropped, the justice minister said. Hundreds of clerics, students and others chanting "Death to Christians!
Bush's senior adviser Karl Rove tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent "discovery" of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
The jury that will determine whether Zacarias Moussaoui lives or dies must decide whether to believe Moussaoui himself, who says he planned to fly a plane into the White House on 9/11, or the mastermind of 9/11, who says Moussaoui had nothing to do w
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by making a hand gesture some consider obscene. A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much qu
"Any definition of terrorism that would include someone throwing a bottle or rock through a window during an antiwar demonstration is dangerously overbroad. The FBI will have its hands full pursuing antiwar groups instead of truly dangerous orga
She pulled over on Chamblee-Tucker Road, unaware of her infraction. "The officer asked if I knew I had a lewd decal on my car and I thought, 'Oh gosh, what did my kids put on my car?' " As it turns out, the decal was an anti-Bush
Complaining of unpaid wages, and demanding better conditions, the labourers marched out of the cramped, stifling dormitories where they are corralled 25 to a room in violent protests which caused $1m worth of damage. They overturned cars and smashed
The ordeal of Abdul Rahman, whose death was demanded by the imams of Afghanistan, causes one to ask: What is this new democracy President Bush celebrates? Is it really something for which we ought to be sending young Americans to fight and die?
When are Americans going to wake up and “Stop being good Democrats.” and “Stop being good Republicans.” and “Start being good Americans”?
Senior ministers from the three main Shia factions united to denounce an American raid on a Baghdad mosque complex in which at least 20 people died, opening the biggest rift between the US and Iraq's majority Shia community since the toppling of
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is promoting a system that would have farm-animal owners and livestock handlers attach microchips or other ID tags to their furry and feathered charges so they could be monitored throughout their lifetimes by a cent
A federal judge whose own home was flooded after Hurricane Katrina has rejected pleas to delay the city's April 22 elections, saying he shared residents' "burning desire for completeness." [It's not like your past elections were
Air America Radio has found a new home in the Valley. The liberal-talk network will debut Monday on KPHX-AM (1480). Nova M Radio, a company headed by Valley radio personality Mike Newcomb and Air America founders Sheldon and Anita Drobny, will lease
Iraq's ruling parties demanded U.S. forces cede control of securityas the government launched an inquiry into a raid on a Shi'ite mosque complex that ministers said saw "cold blooded" killings by U.S.-led troops.
The former Republican leader of the Wisconsin Assembly was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail for putting a party fundraiser on the state payroll.
So rapid is the rise of the US national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York's Times Square move in seemingly random increments as they struggle to keep pace.
His wartime powers undercut once before by the Supreme Court, President Bush could take a second hit in a case in which Osama bin Laden's former driver is seeking to head off a trial before military officers.
Ah, but they volunteered, you say. Yes, they did. All the more reason to honor their commitment by making sure they aren't cannon fodder in a dubious cause. Soldiers shouldn't be ill-used simply because they believed in their country and its
David M. Kauchak pleaded guilty in Winnebago County to remotely accessing someone else's computer system without permission. A police officer arrested Kauchak after spotting him sitting in a parked car with a computer. A chat with the suspect led
Belarus's main opposition chief proclaimed a movement to "liberate" the country from President Alexander Lukashenko; but police moved to break up protests, making clear the anti-Western leader has no plans to go.
The Bush administration's landmark nuclear deal with India could alter the world's nonproliferation regime, and rewrite the geopolitical rules of South Asia. If it passes Congress in its current form, that is. And that is far from a foregone
Arab foreign ministers dismissed Western explanations for cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority but offered no extra money to compensate for a budget shortfall when Hamas Islamists take office.
German scientists say cells from the testes of mice can behave like embryonic stem cells. If the same holds true in humans, it could provide a controversy-free source of versatile cells for use in treating disease.
Yes, we are increasingly cranky – about the casualties, the cost, and the clear inability of American forces to make a dent in the insurgency – and this impatient mood is no doubt shared, in spades, by the troops on the ground and their commanders, a
A Christian group that promotes heterosexuality quietly dropped its beef against a blogger who poked fun at it. Exodus International initially claimed the altered image of one of its billboards by Justin Watt infringed its copyright. But Exodus is no
China will be ruled by the Free-Market and not Washington politicians,... watch.
