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The top Senate Democrat investigating Jack Abramoff's Indian lobbying met several times with the lobbyist's team and clients, held a fundraiser in Abramoff's arena skybox and arranged congressional help for one of the tribes, records show
The Pentagon awarded 3 contracts, worth up to $300 million over 5 years, to companies it hopes will inject more creativity into its psychological operations efforts to improve foreign public opinion about the US, particularly the military.
The hard rain on our fundamental liberties has been persistently increasing since the White House rammed through the Patriot Act. Recent events in the U.S. Senate further strengthen and deepen presidential powers are reason to be alarmed at what can
More than 300 CIA flights have landed at European airports, adding a new element to claims that Washington has been transporting terrorist suspects to secret prisons in Europe.
The nation's top military man, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, said American troops in Iraq have a duty to intercede and stop abuse of prisoners by Iraqi security personnel. When Defense Secretary Rumsfeld contradicted Pace, the general stood firm.
Before he invaded Iraq, President Bush warned us that the terrorists were using Iraq as a base to attack America. After the invasion, we found out that was nonsense on stilts.
Groups representing national security whistle-blowers are calling for a boycott of a congressional hearing to examine "whether US agencies are unjustly revoking or suspending security clearances in retaliation against employees who speak out aga
Saturn's planet-size moon Titan has dramatic weather, with freezing temperatures, carbon- and nitrogen-rich clouds and possibly lightning describing a world that may have looked like Earth before life developed.
While Bush explains his "victory strategy" for Iraq to the people, his Pentagon chief has already thrown out the most obvious option. There will be no immediate troop withdrawal, cautioned Rumsfeld, because "quitting is not an exit str
A San Diego businessman under investigation in the bribery case of former congressman "Duke" Cunningham is a well-known GOP fundraiser whose generosity to key members of Congress came at the same time his company saw large increases in its
The U.S. ambassador to Japan urged Japanese communities that are reluctant to host U.S. troops to realize the American military presence contributes to the security both of Japan and the region as a whole.
Before the recent war in Iraq, the sanctions decreased access to many resources, but gas was still plentiful and affordable. Since the invasion in 2003, gas and kerosene have been in short supply.
Iraqis have asked Saddam Hussein’s defence team to mull the possibility of fielding the ousted dictator as a candidate for future elections, one of his lawyers said.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. was dealt another legal setback in a key patent infringement case, raising pressure to settle or face a possible shutdown of its U.S. mobile e-mail service.
The American press is predictably ignoring the story. Yet it is only too plausible that Bush wanted to wipe out what he saw as a nest of terrorists.
Even if the new Iraqi army serving a predominantly Shiite governing majority proves able to crush the Sunni insurgency, it may prove unable to defend its government against an eventual invasion from neighboring fellow-Shiite Iran.
The nation's attorneys general are putting finishing touches on a proposal to create a nationwide price-gouging law that would extend to any "essential services" including medicines, food, water, heating and cooling costs and hotel room
A decision by the Richmond court to withdraw its order would make it much harder for Padilla to pursue his appeal, but would also remove judicial backing for the detentions.
Even in this election off-year, the potential perils of electronic voting systems are bedeviling state officials as a Jan. 1 deadline approaches for complying with standards for the machines' reliability.
Thirty-two months after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Bush's advisers concluded that his message of "stay the course" has been translated by a weary American public as "stay forever." And so yesterday the president tried
Many people will replace their old media gadgets with Christmas gifts like HDTVs, iPods, and digital video recorders, often consigning the old TV sets, CD players, and VCRs to the junk pile. Congress is considering how to make sure that this "e-
In a speech aimed squarely at restoring morale on the home front, and to meet the growing clamour for a pull-out, Mr Bush conspicuously failed to deliver: a clear exit strategy from the two-and-a-half-year conflict.
Skype Technologies today updated its Internet telephony software, with version 2 adding free integrated video calling to the company's popular Voice over Internet Protocol service.
Enough plutonium to make dozens of nuclear bombs hasn't been accounted for at the UC-run Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and may be missing.
Most of Venezuela's main opposition parties are boycotting legislative elections on Sunday that could allow President Hugo Chavez to consolidate his self-proclaimed socialist revolution.
Deborah Davis' refusal to show her identification to federal police at a bus stop, a 50-year-old Arvada, Colo., grandmother of five, was handcuffed, placed in a police car and ticketed for two petty offenses by Federal Protective Services officer
Several Tibetan monks have been detained for opposition to a Chinese political campaign they were forced to participate in, sparking a rare mass protest, two advocacy groups said.
The article was one of several in a storyboard, the military's term for a list of articles, that was delivered Tuesday to the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based public relations firm paid by the Pentagon.
Government engineers performing sonar tests at the site of a major levee failure confirmed that steel reinforcements barely went more than half as deep as they were supposed to, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official said.
Warhawk now dove, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) endorsed Rep. John Murtha’s (D-CA) recent call to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq as soon as possible.
