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Iraq's oil minister said Monday he resigned after the government last week gave him a forced vacation and replaced him with Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi following criticism about fuel price increases.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today released a letter written from herself to the National Security Agency in October 2001, as well as the response it received. Both documents were recently declassified at her request.
Al-Qaida is active in Somalia, but U.S. counterterrorism forces are succeeding in keeping its influence from spreading in East Africa - using shovels as their weapons, a commander said
Scanlon was implicated in the Abramoff scandal by his former thirtysomething fiancee, Emily J. Miller, whom he met in the late 1990s while working as communications director for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX)
Rep. John Murtha, a key Democratic voice who favors pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, said that he would not join the U.S. military today.
Embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud, agreeing to cooperate in an influence-peddling investigation that threatens powerful members of Congress.
A young federal prosecutor who was revealed as the author of a spicy blog about the judiciary is leaving the inner circle. David Lat, who had been the anonymous writer of "Underneath Their Robes," left his job as an assistant U.S. attorney
The engineering mistakes that led to the canal levee failures that flooded most of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were found and then dismissed in the Army Corps of Engineers' design review process in 1990, an investigative team reviewing t
As Americans increasingly lose patience with the US involvement in Iraq, tolerance also is wearing thin in Florida for domestic security policies that some say inhibit international trade, tourism and global exchange among students, researchers and b
The ACLU, a frequent critic of the city police, plans to arm residents with video cameras to record officers' dealings with the public. The department often mistreats and unfairly targets blacks and it hopes the presence of cameras will act as a
The Internet, and especially the amplifying power of blogs, is changing that. Unhappy subjects discovered a decade ago that they could use their Web sites to correct the record or deconstruct articles to expose what they perceived as a journalist
The NSA has turned information over to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to other government entities. The DIA, has used NSA information as the basis for carrying out surveillance of people in the country suspected of posing a threat
A German youth who arrived in Pakistan to pursue religious studies has been held in the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba by the US authorities for almost four years without trial. Murat Kurnaz, 23, was arrested in Pakistan soon after his arrival in the
All the successful missions involved troop levels totaling at least 2 percent of the occupied country's population. As a rule of thumb, securing Iraq's 25 million people, would require 500,000 foreign troops. American and coalition forces now
"We have to open the roads that have been closed by foreign princes and war-princes," said Ramazan Bashardost, a populist member of Parliament, . "The issue of security is the same for Afghans as for members of embassies. I am not con
32 privately operated Venezuelan oilfields returned to state control with the start of the new year, the government said. A deadline expired for all private companies with contracts to independently pump oil to agree to joint ventures that will give
Bristish troops deployed to Afghanistan could sustain losses on a scale not seen since the Falklands war, military intelligence officers warned. Insurgent forces are preparing for a large offensive by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, backed by sophisticated
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact. Most effectively stripped of all rights by keeping their imprisonment sec
The government is considering changing the year-old Freedom of Information Act to limit so-called frivolous inquiries. Irresponsible queries diverted energy from answering "worthwhile requests",
British officials have admitted MI6 officers were present during the interrogation of 28 Pakistanis in Greece, despite apparent denials by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
Kevin Benderman spends his days sitting in a plastic chair in the stockade at Fort Lewis, Wash., completing a 15-month sentence for "missing movement" with his unit. Jeremy Hinzman is raising his baby boy in Toronto, awaiting a court date w
The Bush administration has sent troops into Paraguay. They are there ostensibly for humanitarian and counterterrorism purposes. The action coincides with growing left unity in South America, military buildup in the region and burgeoning independent
In two years, they have traveled a total of seven miles. Not impressed? Try keeping your car running in a climate where the average temperature is 67 below zero and where dust devils can reach 100 mph.
A top Justice Department official objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program and refused to sign on to its continued use amid concerns about its legality and oversight
I'd like to know how much it cost. The Department of Defense says we don't have enough money to get the kind of armor and protection our troops need in Iraq, but we've got money to go around and spy on Quaker meetings?"
Putin, has moved to consolidate his power by closing down independent sources of opposition and extending state control of the “commanding heights” of the Russian economy, and attempts to impose his will on former Soviet states, such as Ukraine
The Sunni bloc, allied to the secular party have a long list of demands: a timetable for American withdrawal, the release of prisoners, rehabilitation of Ba’ath party and the disbanding of Shi’ite and Kurdish militias.
After reviewing the number of hits top local stories at his newspaper's Web site got in 2005, Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat concludes, "As I look back at the year in news, it's clear I should have focused more on people having s
The Marine Corps is paying $100,000 apiece for a revamped Vietnam-era jeep as part of its program to outfit the hybrid airplane-helicopter V-22 Osprey, Pentagon records show.
In Motown v. Nelson, pending in federal court the defendants have made a motion for attorneys fees against the RIAA attorneys, for unreasonable and vexatious litigation and improperly interfering and/or obtaining false testimony from a prospective wi
