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A capsule containing comet particles and interstellar dust samples collected in space by NASA's Stardust spacecraft -- designed and built by Lockheed Martin -- is heading to Earth for a parachute landing early on the morning of January 15, 2006,
After months of emotionally exhaustive waiting and wondering, homeowners in the most devastated parts of New Orleans now know they'll have to wait until late June to rebuild, and it's not certain their property will be safe from public seizur
We know about the hundreds of millions of dollars in defense contracts that former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham, using his position on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, helped steer to individuals who had given him bribes.
If all goes to plan, Stardust will release its sample return capsule carrying comet and interstellar dust particles on Jan. 15 and the capsule will enter Earth's atmosphere, zooming toward Utah and a parachute landing at
``There are a variety of options, a variety of tools at the disposal of the international community once it has been referred to the Security Council,'' Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
Confusion rippled around the court trying Saddam Hussein on Saturday after the chief judge made it clear he wanted to step down, casting an already turbulent process into further disarray.
Iran's president and Pat Robertson more alike than you think
"We were asleep when the first missile hit another house. We came out but my 3 children were buried under debris in a second explosion," said Mohammed Khan. His children all died. "The US cannot do this without Pakistan's support.
"Everything changed on 9/11," said the President. "The American people join me in thanking Congress for finally having the wisdom and patriotism to recognize this changed situation in the country and the world. Although these legislato
Spending on Gulf Coast reconstruction has led the Bush administration to revise upwards sharply its estimates for the federal budget deficit in 2006, by 17 per cent to $400bn, sparking calls for further spending restraint and adding to concerns about
US military officers ordered to defend accused war criminals at Guantanamo base in Cuba have joined the outcry of activists assailing the court system for human rights violations. “It was horrific to sit there and watch this happen,” said Army Major
The US is seeking to convince Arab countries to send troops to Iraq to replace US forces. Vice President Cheney will tour Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Oman, will discuss the matter with Arab leaders.
At first the prosecutor, Karen Corrie, said there was no videotape. When Mr. Siegel pressed, Ms. Corrie corrected herself, saying she had misread her notes. But, she said, her office was having trouble "accessing" the videotape.
Virginia Beach evangelist Pat Robertson has apologized for suggesting that Ariel Sharon's stroke was God's punishment for giving up Gaza. In a letter to the Israeli prime minister's son, Robertson asks "for your forgiveness and the f
The phones — which do not require purchasers to sign a contract or have a credit card — have many legitimate uses, and are popular with people who have bad credit or for use as emergency phones tucked away in glove compartments or tackle boxes.
The Bush administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a case that challenges President Bush's authority to create military tribunals to try Guantanamo prisoners for war crimes.
A co-defendant of a former Florida professor in a recent terrorism trial has asked federal prosecutors to disclose if he was wiretapped without a warrant, a court clerk said
LOBBYISTS and powerful industry organisations are financially backing supposedly independent groups of ministers of Parliament investigating controversial policies in which they have a commercial interest
There can be few acts more galling than a soldier from one country publicly assessing the performance of those from another. However, this is not an arrogant exercise in national comparisons: there is no other Army in the world that could even have a
One reason the Hopkins study did not generate sustained outrage is that the researchers did not explain how the occupation had managed to kill so many people so quickly - about 1,000 each week in the first 14 months of the war.
"Without empirical examination of a random sample of voted ballots, there is no way to decide between the hypothesis that ballots have been altered and the hypothesis that ballots were miscounted by poorly calibrated machines," University o
An anti-terrorism law creating a national standard for all driver's licenses by 2008 isn't upsetting just civil libertarians and immigration rights activists. State motor vehicle officials nationwide who will have to carry out the Real ID Act
France, Britain and Germany quickly responded that they were not demanding sanctions against Tehran just yet.
A US soldier who sued the military to protest against the involuntary extension of his service has lost his challenge of the "stop-loss" policy Washington has used to maintain troop levels. US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was the latest uph
The Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year, finding no reason to believe his claims, even though no Americans involved in the case were questioned
The longer kids stay in public schools the worse they perform on achievement tests. John Stossel takes a look at America's failing public school system.
Chips can process multiple inputs at the same time in the same device. "With quantum mechanics, an object can be in two places at the same time, as long as you don't look at it," he said. The quantum computer architecture can store quan
Stung by a recent Associated Press article that didn't credit him for coining the word "truthiness," Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert has struck back. The world's oldest news organization, Colbert says, is the "No. 1 threat
Jose Padilla, the US citizen held by the Bush administration for over three years as an illegal "enemy combatant," pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that he was part of a secret network that supported violent Muslim extremists around t
