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"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
A bill awaiting Ohio Governor Taft's signature would give state law-enforcement officials sweeping powers to question, detain and arrest people, allow authorities to demand identification in a broad range of circumstances, and it asks local law e
In a case that could have far-reaching implications for the prosecution of terrorists interrogated by foreign governments, the judge told Israeli security forces to turn over documents which could support the man's claim that his statements were
Within weeks, Mr. Yoo had begun to establish himself as a critical player in the Bush administration's legal response to the terrorist threat, and an influential advocate for the expansive claims of presidential authority that have been a hallmar
The White House said it was "absolutely wrong" for the 9/11 commission to falsely accuse The Washington Times of breaking a story that Osama bin Laden used a satellite phone. Scott McClellan acknowledged he erred that President Bush was re
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.
The Justice Department acknowledged, in a letter to Congress, that the president's October 2001 eavesdropping order did not comply with "the 'procedures' of" the law. FISA made it a offense to conduct electronic surveillance
A Milan court has issued a European arrest warrant for 22 CIA agents suspected of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric from Italy's financial capital in 2003, Prosecutor Armando Spataro said
Testifying before a Senate committee last April, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, then head of the NSA, emphasized how scrupulously the agency was protecting Americans from its electronic snooping. "We are, I would offer, the most aggressive agency in th
"The word, conservatively, is 'epidemic,' " says Edward Looney, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey. He attributes poker's surge to its glamorization on TV shows such as Bravo's Celebrity P
Two former employees of the nation's main pro-Israel lobby, who are facing trial for allegedly receiving classified information and relaying it to foreign diplomats and the press, are considering lawsuits against the lobbying powerhouse.
Mexico is trying to form a united front in Latin American against a US plan to build a fence along hundreds of miles of its southern border.
The investigation has highlighted the close relationship between the 535 members of Congress and the 27,000 registered lobbyists who shower them with sports tickets and other perks.
Preliminary results in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad indicate that our boy Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress scored a minuscule 0.36 percent of the votes. Out of almost 2.5 million voters in Baghdad, only 8,645 voted for Chalabi.
According to a White House fact sheet, 2005 was a year full of "accomplishments" -- six, single-spaced pages worth distributed to reporters as Bush left town for his holiday break.
The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. Already working on ways of automatically recognising human faces by computer introducing Orwellian stree
Astronomers aided by the Hubble Space Telescope have spied two more rings encircling Uranus, the first additions to the planet's ring system in nearly two decades.
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.
