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IT WAS astounding enough for Washington’s political elite: they discovered that the man at the heart of a scandal over the planting of US propaganda in Iraqi newspapers was a unknown 30-year-old Oxford graduate who had somehow managed to land a $100
The transitional government in Baghdad – last week’s election will see a new administration take charge in the new year – inherited about $120bn of debt and is also negotiating debt reductions with other government lenders, including its Gulf state n
To entice foreign companies to develop Iraq's oil sector, the nation's next government will not only have to tackle violence that has scared away investors, it will also have to determine who controls the country's lucrative oil fields.
The Polish Government has decided not to make public the results of an inquiry into the possible existence of US CIA prisons on Polish soil. "All the members of the commission said they were satisfied with his explanations and considered the mat
"I wholeheartedly believe the vast majority of civilians are killed by the insurgency," particularly by improvised bombs, said Col. Michael Denning, the top air officer for the 2nd Marine Division, which is leading the fight against insurge
Several Illinois gas stations are being given a choice by the state attorney general's office: donate $1,000 to the American Red Cross or risk being sued for price gouging after Hurricane Katrina. The options were spelled out in letters sent to
Peterson and his wife couldn't afford to pay a contractor several thousand dollars to gut the one-story house, which sat in water for weeks after Hurricane Katrina inundated them. Then the Mennonites came by and offered a hand. "I can't
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that the candidate who got the most votes can't serve because she didn't live in the district long enough, and the runner-up can't serve because she didn't win.
A restless volcano near Alaska's most populated region is being watched by scientist and officials, who warned of the risk of clouds of ash and a tsunami from a possible eruption.
Lawyer Mohammed Abou wrote sharply about politics in a country where criticism of the government is generally dulled. His outlet was the Internet, the only venue available to politically combative Tunisians, provided they can get around electronic ce
The House of Representatives approved a five-week extension of the USA Patriot Act this afternoon and sent it to the Senate for final approval this evening in a late flurry of action to prevent the broad antiterrorism law from expiring on Dec. 31.
A presidential task force said in a report that the people of Puerto Rico should decide in a series of votes whether the island should become the 51st U.S. state or an independent nation. "It's a wasted opportunity. It offers nothing to the
An unprecedented lawsuit stemming from the gruesome killing of four American civilians in Iraq is slowly making its way through the US legal system, closely watched by companies estimated to field up to 100,000 contractors alongside the US military.
Prosecutors in Washington have been sifting through evidence of what they believe is a corruption scheme involving at least 12 lawmakers and their staff members, many of whom worked closely on legislation with Mr. Abramoff and accepted gifts a
The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures. Cooke's bones were snatched before his cremation and sold for more than $7,000 to two tissue processi
The ACLU asked the state to reveal whether law enforcement agents were gathering information on California activists, in light of revelations that the federal government monitored a conference on Iraq at Stanford Univ. and an anti-war protest at UC S
The standard for getting a wiretap warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is so low that only 5 out of the 19,000 applications have been denied since 1978. We even allow FISA orders to be obtained on a retroactive basis for the firs
Former Goldman Sachs Chairman John Whitehead said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer threatened him during an April phone call for writing an opinion piece critical of Spitzer and his attacks against prominent insurance executive Maurice "H
Some of Platte's fellow prisoners worried that, if she kept protesting, she would die in prison. But Platte said she won't stop working, even though that might mean a longer sentence next time. And she's not worried about dying behind bar
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new state law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, saying a lawsuit challenging the measure was likely to prevail on grounds of free speech.
Previous administrations, as well as the court that oversees national security cases, agreed with President Bush's position that a president legally may authorize searches without warrants in pursuit of foreign intelligence.
Tax scofflaws, beware. State governments are combining new technology with old-fashioned shame to goad delinquent taxpayers to pay up. Advocates of Internet shaming say it's an inexpensive way to capture millions of dollars and seek politically v
A federal judge in Washington ruled yesterday that the continued detention of two ethnic Uighurs at the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is "unlawful," but he decided he had no authority to order their release.
To recall memories, your brain travels back in time via the ultimate Google search, according to a new study in which scientists found they can monitor the activity and actually predict what you'll think of next.
The Iraqi High Tribunal, the special court trying Saddam Hussein, disagreed with a US decision to release a group of high-profile prisoners. The court said the tribunal did not free the accused, the court said it would hunt them down and continue tak
Cuba said it would donate its revenues from a world baseball tournament to Hurricane Katrina victims if the Bush administration reverses a controversial decision to bar Cuba's participation.
A U.S. soldier is being investigated for his alleged role in the March killing in Baghdad of an Italian secret service agent, who had just secured the release of a journalist held hostage, a prosecutor and news reports said
China is to put on trial a Chinese journalist charged with exposing state secrets while working for the New York Times. Zhao was charged with telling the NY Times details about rivalry between China's outgoing Communist Party leader, Jiang Zemin,
Democrats were informed last week that Republicans would clear the bill if three amendments, two by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and one by Sen. John F. Kerry, would be stripped from the consent agreement. But Democrats balked because chairman Sen. Pat Rob
Kept awake at night by a snoring partner? The answer to your woes could lie -- believe it or not -- with the Australian didgeridoo.
