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Saddam Hussein has appeared in court for barely six hours so far, but doubts are already being raised about whether his trial is achieving its goals and if there will be enough evidence to convict him.
Flyers were also thrown down from the balcony, accusing Democrats and Republicans of being alike when it comes to Iraq policy...and condemning Senator Clinton for voting for Iraq invasion in 2002.
A Boston clothing store owner agreed to stop selling "Stop Snitching" T-shirts amid concerns the message was intimidating murder witnesses after threats from the Mayor and outraged community leaders. Had sold 300 to 400 a month
The German government has a list of at least 437 flights suspected of being operated by the CIA in German airspace.
The force of 75,000, which is to grow to 135,000, is now marred by members of ethnic militias who have used their police power in some cases to attack other groups. Sunni Muslims in particular have complained that Shi'ite police commando units ar
Iraqis, rather than foreign fighters, now form the vast majority of the insurgents who are waging a ferocious guerrilla war against US forces in Sunni western Iraq, American commanders have revealed.
"I've already told them I wouldn't pay the fine. I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and am a war-tax resister, so there's no way I would pay money for this to the Coast Guard. I told them they may as well change it
Trained wasps could someday replace dogs for sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies.
Military officials in Baghdad described a Pentagon program that pays to plant stories in the Iraqi media, part of an effort to "get the truth out" there. "a function of buying advertising and opinion/editorial space, as is customary in
A memo that implicates employees of a second private security company, Triple Canopy, Inc., an American firm operating in Iraq, in the possible homicide of two Iraqi civilians on the road from Ramadi to Amman near the Jordanian border in December, 20
A federal judge ruled on that police had a constitutional right to randomly search subway passengers' bags to deter terrorist attacks and the searches were an effective and appropriate means to fight terrorism, and constituted a minimal
Dr. Peter D. Feaver, a Duke University political scientist joined the National Security Council staff as a special adviser in June. “Its [the document] creation and presentation strongly reflected the public opinion research” of Dr. Feaver.
The mayor issued press releases, raised money and bought newspaper ads. Signs bearing his name popped up in yards on a legislative bid. Just before the primary election, the mayor dropped out: The FBI had planted the mayor among the field of candidat
A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser gives phishers a way to scan the hard drives of Google Desktop users. A malicious Web site could use the attack to steal sensitive information like credit card numbers or passwords from the hard driv
THE US knew a year in advance of and explicitly approved Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. The US adopted a "policy of silence" and even suppressed news on East Timor, including reports of Indonesia's massacres of Timores
Prominent Cardiologist, Appearing in Federal Vioxx Trial, Accuses Merck of Scientific Misconduct
As Sen. Tom Harkin drafted letters to the Bush administration on behalf of an Iowa tribe, he had no shortage of ideas for wording: A tribal lobbyist who donated to the Democrat's campaign suggested language for him to use.
The State Department has been using political litmus tests to screen private American citizens before they can be sent overseas to represent the US, weeding out critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy.
"More than anything else, I'm saddened by all this," Mr. German said. "I still love the F.B.I., and I know that there are good, honest, hard-working agents out there trying to do the right thing, and this hurts all of them."
Following a surprising move by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D -NV), which shut down the Senate in an effort to force discussion on the inquiry, the Senate leadership established a Nov. 15 deadline for a progress report into pre-war intelligence
The American Civil Liberties Union says the intelligence agency has broken both US and international law. It is acting for a man allegedly flown to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan.
The FBI has reopened an inquiry into how the Bush administration came to rely on forged documents linking Iraq to nuclear weapons materials as part of its justification for the invasion.
Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned that America's exploding budget deficit and a protectionist backlash against soaring trade deficits could disrupt the global economy.
Authorities investigating whether hospital and nursing home patients were put out of their misery during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath are testing as many as 100 of the dead for lethal doses of morphine or other such drugs.
"The very real risk that he will be detained and tortured remains," his lawyer, Farhad Sethna, said. "However, Ashraf believes that being held for the last three years without his family has been torture enough."
The Army National Guard, battling a falloff in recruiting, is offering troops a finder's fee for lining up new soldiers. Offers National Guard members $1,000 for enlisting a recruit and another $1,000 when the prospect shows up for basic training
New information points to four Ku Klux Klan members as almost certainly responsible for the unsolved murders of two civil rights activists who died when their home exploded in 1951
The operational commander of al-Qaida, possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, was killed by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan.
What's the newest security threat lurking on your PC? Hackers, bored with attacking Microsoft, are going after Symantec Corp., whose Norton products are the first line of defense on 50 million PCs worldwide.
Russia plans to sell more than $1 billion worth of tactical surface-to-air missiles and other defense hardware to Iran.
