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The "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted that his party will propose a withdrawl of National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and al
The training of Iraqi security forces has suffered a big "setback" in the last 6 months, with the army and other forces being increasingly used to settle scores and make other political gains, Iraqi Vice President Ghazi al-Yawer said.
House Democratic leaders will try to block any effort by members to adopt an official Democratic Caucus position on the Iraq war, recognizing such a move would highlight internal party differences and invite new political troubles.
A one-time Communist Party journalist Liu Binyan became known in exile as the "conscience of China" has died. Liu said Communist Party members should not put their ultimate loyalty in the party, but in a "second kind of loyalty" —
Chip-maker Intel Corp. will invest more than $1 billion in the next five years to expand its operations in India and in local technology companies, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett said.
Senator John Kerry (D-MS) called for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's removal following Rumsfeld’s speech this morning on Iraq. Rumors are circulating that neocon Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) could be tapped to replace Rumsfeld.
Most food and drink advertising to children promotes unhealthy choices and can lead to poor diets, experts said in a report recommending that the government step in if the industry doesn't act.
The CIA's tip was a deliberate lie, part of a ruse designed to stymie efforts by the Italian anti-terrorism police to track down the cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, an Egyptian refugee.
President Bush criticized Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean for saying it is wrong to think the US will win in Iraq, calling him a pessimist trying to score political points.
2 CIA secret prisons were operating in Poland and Romania until they were shut down following reports of their existence. The US scrambled to get the suspects off European soil to a CIA facility in the North African desert before Secretary Rice arriv
A German man filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming he was held captive and tortured by U.S. government agents after being mistakenly identified as an associate of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
The White House said the US auto companies do not need substantial industry-specific government help to overhaul their businesses, which are squeezed by high costs and fierce competition.
Rice was not challenged directly over reports that the US had run secret prisons in Eastern Europe, which Washington has refused to confirm or deny. But she reiterated her vigorous defense of US methods in its war on 21st century militants.
An increasingly heated debate over U.S. immigration policy is highlighting the country's deep dependence on illegal workers whose departure would cripple much of the U.S. economy.
The American Civil Liberties Union will file a lawsuit today against former CIA director George Tenet and three American contractors challenging the CIA’s abduction of a foreign national for detention and interrogation in a secret overseas prison.
President Bush pointed to faster-than-expected growth and other positive economic news in an effort to counter pessimism among Americans about the outlook for the U.S. economy.
Valerie Plame, the diplomat's wife whose secret resume was exposed in a newspaper column that eventually led to the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is leaving the CIA on Friday.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assailed US news coverage of the Iraq war and accused journalists of rushing to find fault with the US and its military.
Virgin Airlines is to offer frequent-flyer "Space Miles" that passengers can put towards flights in space with the company's soon-to-be-launched Virgin Galactic, boss Richard Branson revealed.
Television and cable industry representatives met on to try to address concerns about racier shows and head off possible government regulations.
A Vietnam veteran said that he felt, "like Murtha, [that] we should stop [the war] and bring them home and get them out of there." One Army veteran of World War II applauded Murtha's candid assessment of the absence of progress in Iraq,
A judge dismissed a conspiracy charge against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the far more serious allegations of money-laundering, dashing the congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader.
Rice reiterated her defense of US methods in the war on terror against 21st century militants. "If you don't get to them before they commit their crimes, they will commit mass murder," she said.
Zubaidi, the Queen of Spades in the deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards issued by the US government during the war in Iraq, was prime minister of Iraq from 1991 until 1993, when the post went to Saddam.
"There has been so much smoke on this issue, it's very unlikely that there is not a fire somewhere. I think it's likely they have been tortured."
Civil rights groups have protested new rulings that make segregation of sexes in Iraqi schools compulsory. Education ministry has issued regulations under which mixed teaching even at university level will be forbidden. Already male teachers are not
The administration may have exaggerated pre-war claims of an Iraqi WMD arsenal, and defenders branding the detractors as historical revisionists. Both sides suggest other factors may have been in the mix.
On Sunday’s ABC This Week, Stephen Hadley acknowledged that President Bush has not yet ordered the shut-down of the Pentagon’s propaganda campaign in Iraq.
Troubled U.S. automakers and their allies on Capitol Hill are seeking billions of dollars in aid from the federal government ranging from health coverage for their workers to extra tax write-offs for themselves.
The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is reporting that a new bill in Congress would override and weaken state anti-predatory lending laws that protect homeowners. Congressmen Ney (R-Ohio) and Kanjorski (D-Pennsylvania) have introduced legislatio
