President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting "annoying" Web messages or sending "annoying" e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. It's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as yo
The biggest gamble in the short life of satellite radio hits the table at 6 a.m. today, as Howard Stern starts what he calls his creative rebirth at Sirius.
The most prominent morning host on commercial radio for 20 years, Stern joined Sirius becaus
• By Shay Totten & Kathryn Casa - Vermont Guardian
"What the current administration is scared of," said Sanders, is losing GOP control of either the House, the Senate or both. Because, if that happens, he predicted, "there will be hearings to ask some of the fundamental questions about
NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew two years ago through the halo of gas, dust and debris, or "coma," enveloping comet Wild 2, and before dawn on Sunday it will send a capsule containing the samples on a parachute descent into the U.S. Arm
The United States is walking at the edge of a cliff. If it bombs Iran to stem Iranian development of nuclear weapons, it fatally poisons U.S. relationships with the entire world of Islam. If it uses nuclear weapons in the assault, it further seals th
The FBI has 13 field offices across the country working on the case, with two dozen agents assigned to it full time and roughly the same number working part time. "We are going to chase down every lead," Chris Swecker, head of the FBI's
Bracing for the worst, Administration officials obtained from the Secret Service a list of all the times Abramoff entered the White House complex, and they scrambled to determine the reason for each visit. Bush aides are also trying to identify all t
Early in the morning of March 16, 1968, Thompson, door-gunner Lawrence Colburn and crew chief Glenn Andreotta came upon U.S. ground troops killing Vietnamese civilians in and around the village of My Lai.
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
WASHINGTON - In a race framed by scandal, Republican Reps. Roy Blunt and John Boehner pledged action on a reform agenda Sunday as they launched competing campaigns to succeed Tom DeLay as House majority leader.
Troops conducting urban operations soon will have the capabilities of superheroes, being able to sense through 12 inches of concrete to determine if someone is inside a building
The service will allow anyone to sell their video online for a price of their choosing, the justification here being that producing video content is often quite costly and that enabling providers to recoup those costs -- from the college kids who put
New Mexico's plan to build a $225 million spaceport calls for the state Legislature to contribute $100 million in new money. The balance would come from state funding already approved, as well as federal and local funds, said Rick Homans, New Mex
For all those who have been trying to keep up and make sense of the story of Sibel Edmonds, the woman who learned terrible things while translating for the FBI, blew the whistle and was promptly fired and gagged with the court invented "state
Somalia's president and parliament speaker agreed to end a rift that has paralyzed the anarchic nation, but a final declaration signed by the leaders did not say where the government would be based. [Who anointed them ruler?]
An 11-year-old girl died of suspected bird flu in eastern Turkey — days after her brother and sister also succumbed. They probably contracted the illness by playing with dead chickens. A fourth sibling was also seriously ill and breathing with the he
Arizona Republic poll: a strong majority of state voters would forgo a tax cut to either invest the surplus in public programs like all-day kindergarten and state employee pay raises or sock it away in case the economy tanks again. [You'll believ
The United States wants to develop a high-security prison in
Afghanistan to hold terrorism suspects, including some transferred from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
Washington D.C.'s city council voted overwhelmingly to ban smoking in the U.S. capital's bars, restaurants and other workplaces, with portions of the ban expected to take effect as early as this spring.
The Arizona Supreme Court say it takes too long for DUI cases to get resolved. Defense attorneys will now have less time to obtain records and interview experts for both sides. Requiring defendants to appear at each court date encourages them to give
For the first time in 27 years there may not be an Intelligence Authorization Act passed in Congress. The bill was blocked in the Senate by a Republican lawmaker in a dispute over requiring reports on secret detention facilities and access to pre-war
Major League Baseball appealed to a mediator to resolve its dispute with Washington, D.C., over a stalled agreement to build a $667 million city-financed stadium for the Washington Nationals.
The
Internal Revenue Service said it had told a contractor to stop sending the agency information about political party affiliation in databases used to track down delinquent taxpayers.
Passengers also would have to clear a security check to guard against any chance a space tourist would try to destroy the rocket or interfere with the flight crew and use it as a weapon. The FAA recommends using the TSA’s global “no fly” list.
Two years after the United States began a program to photograph and fingerprint visitors from most foreign countries, officials said on Thursday that so far no terrorist suspects had been found at the border.
Pressure is increasing on the British government over allegations that its intelligence agents participated in the kidnap and torture of 28 Pakistanis in Greece following the July 7 bombings.
The harsh acidic environment of your stomach is home to many more bacteria types than previously thought. One newly identified creature in your belly is related to a species that's considered one of the hardiest organisms on the planet and eats r