A car bomb ripped through a crowded market killing 90 people in Pakistan's city of Peshawar on Wednesday, just hours after Washington's top diplomat arrived pledging a fresh start in sometimes strained relations.
Wednesday's bomb, the latest urban
For some market participants, however, the openness and transparency of the equity market actually mean they are unlikely to achieve the best price. The risk, particularly for large transactions such as those undertaken by pension funds or large mutu
These are heady times for advocates of legalized marijuana in California — and only in small part because of the newly relaxed approach of the federal government toward medical marijuana.
NASA's newest rocket blasted off on a brief test flight Wednesday, after a day's delay due to poor weather. The flight is the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could be shelved by the White House.
The 327-foot-tall rocket roared to lif
The "Truth in Trials Act," "enables individuals facing federal prosecution for marijuana-related offenses to provide evidence during trial that the activities they were engaged in were performed in compliance with their state’s duly-enacted medical m
The U.S. government may end up throwing away unused doses of swine flu vaccine if people cannot get it soon enough, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
FIJA activism represents possibly the only opportunity for citizens to fight the government on its own turf: as a juror, you may have to be a slave, but you don’t need to participate in the perpetuation of your own bondage. Better still, you may help
An ancient fly sporting a horn on its head topped with three eyes would have easily seen predators coming where it lived in the jungles of what is now Myanmar some 100 million years ago.
The fly was also equipped with a pair of large compound eyes
Washington notables broke ground on the future home of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, symbolically starting construction on the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.
Dubbed the "instant millionaire", Congressman Alan B. Mollohan is a self-made political creature. He’s been representing WV’s-1 since 1982. Along the way, he’s picked up some powerful committee seats, lots of personal cash and a lot of questions. We
States collect far more information about students than necessary and fail to take steps to protect their privacy. The dossiers include Social Security numbers, poverty data, health information and disciplinary incidents.
The Pentagon now has an assassination list for suspected drug dealers in Afghanistan. No arrests. No hearings. No attorneys. No judges. No trials. Just kill them.
What’s your priority: Building that society for yourself and with others who want to live in it? Or waging an eternal battle to seize monopoly power and impose your unrealized vision on everyone?
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[Central planners scramble to vaccinate the Internet for H1N1 as] a federal report warns that all those people logging on to the Web from home could overwhelm Internet networks.
“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth then all Americans are in peril.” Harry Truman. I wish we could bring President Truman back to life and ask him the following question: “Mr
(CIDRAP News) – The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has seen a change in the ethnic distribution of fatal pandemic H1N1 influenza cases, a CDC official reported at a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee today. In an update on epidemiologic pat
My name is Craig Murray. I was British Ambassador in Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004… I had extensive experience throughout my career of dealing with intelligence material and the intelligence services. It was made plain to me in briefing
WASHINGTON — Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, is now an Italian citizen. Officials at the Italian Embassy in Washington say Freeh was made a citizen at a ceremony Friday. An announcement on the embassy's Web site says Freeh was granted citize
CHICAGO - Healthcare companies are reaping the benefits of a global swine flu pandemic, brightening what might otherwise have been a dismal third quarter and bringing new focus on the market for vaccines. Large European pharmaceutical companies are r
BAGHDAD - Iraq on Sunday accused countries of stealing vast sections of its national archives, including documents dating back centuries, after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country. Some 60 percent of the archives, amounting to tens of millions o
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is the first pan-European think-tank. Launched in October 2007, its objective is to conduct research and promote informed debate across Europe on the development of coherent and effective European valu
Local and federal law enforcement officers said they have broken up a drug transportation ring that was bringing 60,000 pounds of marijuana into Arizona one backpack at a time. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said the operation came to light with a r
AJO — U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Ajo Station, assigned to a forward operating base, halted a cattle theft attempt. Through the use of a mobile surveillance system, agents were able to detect three people on horseback trying to rustle cattle,
SIERRA VISTA — Defense contractor Northrop Grumman announced this week it is relocating the testing grounds for its unmanned aerial systems from Cochise County to an airfield in Utah.
The Army awarded the company a $6.2 million contract to relocate
The WHO Flu Scam 2nd edition weaves documents and text reports with video news, exposing the lies behind the current pandemic and vaccination program. This brand new production by filmmaker Phil Segrave features an interview with Austrian medical wri
Pike Research forecasts that over 3 GW of new microgrid capacity will come on line globally by 2015, representing a cumulative investment of $7.8 billion. North America will be the largest market for microgrids during that period, capturing 74% of to