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The British government has failed to honor its pledge to compensate Afghani farmers for eradicating poppy crops, causing widespread anger in the volatile south of the country and leading to increased support for Taliban insurgents.
A 13-year-old boy was charged with threatening President Bush — who is scheduled to travel to nearby Cincinnati next week — in two e-mails sent to the mayor, police said. Investigators did not find anything in a search of the boy's home to make t
There is one doctoral dissertation that is so influential that General George Casey, the US commander in Iraq, is said to carry it with him everywhere. Most of his staff have been ordered to read it and he pressed a copy into the hands of Donald Rums
Iraqi and American special forces who attacked an insurgent headquarters in Baghdad were not aware that their target contained a mosque until after the battle. The controversial raid, which Iraqi radicals claim resulted in the deaths of 21 unarmed wo
While only 2 Democrats in the Senate have embraced Sen. Russ Feingold's call for censuring President Bush, the idea is increasing his standing among many Democratic voters as he ponders a bid for the party's presidential nomination in 2008.
Western powers softened a draft U.N. Security Council statement on Tuesday on reining in Iran's nuclear ambitions in hopes of reaching a deal with Russia and China before all their foreign ministers meet this week.
An unusual experiment in public access is giving anyone with a computer a chance to play intelligence analyst and second-guess the government. Under pressure from Congressional Republicans, the director of national intelligence has begun a yearlong p
The George W. Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program in May 2003 because neoconservative zealots who advocated destabilization and regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with
To help recruit US government civilians for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, the State Department has boosted the pay allowances for both hardship and danger to the highest levels ever granted. An extra 70% above base salaries for hardship and danger.
It may seem as though it's been moving along at a snail's pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials who have remai
A pair of senators just back from a trip to China said they hoped to talk with Treasury Secretary Snow before deciding whether to go ahead with a Friday vote on their bill threatening to punish China with a 27.5% trade tariff if it does not revalue
Taliban insurgents attacked a military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a U.S. and a Canadian soldier while 32 of the attackers were also killed, the U.S. military said. The Taliban have vowed to oust foreign forces and the Western-backed go
The Prime Minister did not always agree with the Americans and they could be “difficult friends”. The danger was not that the Americans were too involved in international affairs. The danger was that they might decide to disengage.
Did we intend to make a theatrical point—that we would not stand by in Abdul Rahman's condemnation and beheading, an arrant interference with the right of a human being to embrace Christianity? Or would we just settle for saving Rahman's life
US House Republicans offered legislation aimed at easing the path for telephone carriers like AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications to enter the subscription television business. The companies have complained that it would take them years to obtain th
Thanks to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, and a lawsuit brought by Reps. Shays and Meehan, and the unwillingness of the FEC's Democratic commissioners to fight it, we now have Internet election regulations. Yay.
Proposal that would require the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to conduct regular reviews of the four-year-old program. The existence of the warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency was revealed
Thanks to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, and a lawsuit brought by Reps. Shays and Meehan, and the unwillingness of the FEC's Democratic commissioners to fight it, we now have Internet election regulations. Yay.
Top al-Qaeda operatives in US custody said that Zacarias Moussaoui was untrustworthy and not part of the 9/11 attacks. Most of the testimony was read aloud from detainees who were forbidden from testifying because of national security concerns. Much
But those exchanges never occurred. Instead, the debate -- which runs 15 pages and brims with conversational flourishes -- was inserted into the Congressional Record minutes before the Senate gave final approval to the legislation.
Only one in five Americans think cheating on taxes is morally acceptable or is not a moral issue, according to a new survey. Some 10 percent are equally ambivalent about cheating on a spouse.
STEWART: ... Joshua Bolton who has been working in the White House for Bush's entire Presidency. He spent two years working under Andy card. The last three years he's been in charge of the Office of Management and Budget. In other words, he j
Most scientists agree that core accretion is how terrestrial planets such as Earth and Mars were created, but the model can't convincingly explain how gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn came to be. One major problem is that developing gas
A senior Iraqi politician from a rival Shi'ite party to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that President Bush had made clear he did not want Jaafari to lead a new government of national unity.
Each time the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on medical marijuana, the justices have come down against allowing the sick and dying to use the drug to ease their symptoms and possibly prolong life.
Taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service is at risk of being tampered with or obliterated because of weaknesses in the agency's information security systems, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Belarussian courts jailed for up to 15 days on public order offences more than 150 mostly young protesters detained when police broke up rallies against a presidential election judged unfair by the West. No defense lawyers were present and the verdic
4 years after the 9/11 attacks, investigators were able to easily enter the US with enough radioactive material to make two so-called dirty bombs, according to a report on a government undercover investigation obtained.
A NY Times article about a meeting between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Jan 31, 2003, is receiving attention. Contrasted with what the 2 men told the press when they emerged from the closed-door session.
"I remember when we were in office, starting in 1998, various Republicans were coming to us wanting a ground invasion," Madeleine Albright said. She did not name the people she said made those requests nor say what prompted them.
