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The city is ready to demolish some 2,500 houses deemed threats to public safety because of damage from Hurricane Katrina, but opponents said Saturday they will sue to stop the work to make sure homeowners' rights are respected.
NOVAK: I said several times on this network that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. BLITZER: How did you know that and the President was convinced there were? NOVAK: My sources in the military didn’t think there were. A
The 18th-century house had one thing the McMansions could never claim — the original Uncle Tom's cabin.
Acting on a tip, InformationWeek was able to access Web pages that include the names and Social Security numbers of people involved in Justice Department-related legal actions.
The White House, gearing up for 2006 mid-term elections in which the budget and taxes may spark fierce debate, is eager to claim credit for a pending five-year spending-cut measure but faces tough decisions as it weighs a fresh round of reductions.
The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story.
At least 1,500 people attended Christmas Eve Mass presided by an excommunicated Roman Catholic priest, despite warnings from the archbishop that participating would be a mortal sin.
The chief of Russia's strategic forces attended the deployment of a new set of state-of-the art intercontinental ballistic missiles today, boasting of their capability to penetrate any prospective missile defence.
Media Matters presents the top 12 myths and falsehoods promoted by the media on President Bush's spying scandal on his authorized the NSA to eavesdrop on American's communications without the required approval of the FISA court.
Lawmakers routinely violating a congressional rule banning gifts over $50 by accepting free lavish meals and expensive bottles of wine at a lobbyists' restaurant blocks away from Capitol Hill. ''It's going to be this restaurant,"
The ACLU took out full-page notices in newspapers demanding a special counsel to investigate whether the President violated the Constitution and his oath of office. "This man wasn't above the law," the ad said, under an image of preside
Frustrated by government and empowered by technology, Americans are filling needs and fighting causes through grass-roots organizations they built themselves — some sophisticated, others quaintly ad hoc. This is the era of people-driven pol
Barron's editorial page editor Thomas G. Donlan penned a column entitled "Unwarranted Executive Power" which calls on members of the House to investigate if Bush violated the 1978 FISA and to either change the law or consider impeachmen
As a small start-up company in Massachusetts sought to become a major player in the business of homeland security, it hired a lobbyist and attended a fundraiser for one of the most powerful members of Congress.
US troops in Iraq have arrested a senior official of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq in connection with the entry of forged ballots from neighbouring Iran prior to last week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq.
The US State Department, placed a gag order on Ambassador April Glaspie in August 1990 prohibiting her from talking to the media about what had transpired at a meeting with Saddam Hussein, and is apparently still keeping her under wraps despite retir
The US Congress approved the transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel. The money is to be used to fund joint security projects between Israel and the US. $133 million will develop the Arrow missile program, a collaborative project between Israel Ai
Internet casinos are outlaw operations in the eyes of the federal government, but they look like solid investments to many of Wall Street's largest firms.
The celebration of Festivus is alive and well in northwestern Pennsylvania, nearly a decade after the bizarre "holiday" garnered pop culture notoriety on "Seinfeld." Its roots actually go back several decades: a slap at the
An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won't be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
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
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
The Bush administration formally defended its domestic spying program in a letter to Congress late yesterday, saying national security outweighs the privacy of those who are monitored.
The NSA's backdoor access to major telecommunications switches on American soil with the cooperation of major corporations represents a significant expansion of the agency's operational capability, according to current and former government o
US airstrikes in Iraq have surged this fall, jumping to nearly 5 times the average monthly rate earlier in the year. Until the end of August, US warplanes were conducting about 25 strikes a month, this rose to 62 in September, then to 122 in October
A classified radiation monitoring program, conducted without warrants, has targeted private U.S. property (i.e., mosques) in an effort to prevent an al-Qaida attack.
