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The yield curve has inverted 5 times in the past 3 decades, according to Merrill Lynch. In all 5 cases, the economy was in recession a year later. Late last month, when the yield on the 10-year T-note fell below the yield on the 2-year T-note, the Do
The indictment tells a story of 4½ years of arson, vandalism, violence and destruction executed on behalf of the ALF or ELF extremist movements to support acts of domestic terrorism, AG Alberto "The Rack" Gonzales said.
Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue. "Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world," he said.
Mary Ann Wright quit a 30-year Army and diplomatic career in protest of the Iraq war. She's now a soldier for the antiwar movement. As an Army colonel and diplomat, Mary Ann Wright served her country for more than 30 years in some of the most iso
The horror began after American and Iraqi forces cordoned off part of a highway north of Baghdad following the deadly crash of a US helicopter. With traffic directed onto narrow dirt roads, insurgents turned the area into a killing field. They set
Along with the $37 billion fund, another $24 billion from US taxpayers has been ordered for Iraqi reconstruction. With $4 billion pledged by other countries, more than $60 billion ... has been stolen or misspent.
The kind of subpoena cited is for documents or records, not testimony, and require records to be turned over before trial so the defense team can review them. Libby's team said it expects a delay in the trial while news organizations fight the su
Osama bin Laden has a book recommendation for you. In the audiotape the al-Qaida leader said: "It would be useful for you [Americans] to read the book Rogue State." [by William Blum] And, Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the
The father of an American jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan said on Thursday his son had been tortured and unjustly punished amid public hysteria over the September 11 attacks.
There has been a subtle yet incredibly important change with the way the Internet is used. It's been going on for at least a couple of years, but lately we're beginning to feel the enormous cumulative effects. When people speak of Web 2.0 the
Amazonian hunter-gatherers who lack written language and who have never seen a math book score highly on basic tests of geometric concepts and that suggests geometry may be hard-wired into the brain.
"We'll spread snipers in all of Iraq's cities," said Abu Huda al-Aslam, a senior member of the Iraqi militant group Mujahideen Army Brigades, who served in Saddam Hussein's army. "We will focus on planting roadside bombs,**
A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.
One reason why interest in Judas has suddenly arisen is that a long-lost "Gospel of Judas," an apocryphal or inauthentic account of Jesus's life, is due to be published this spring. Despite reports to the contrary, the Catholic Church i
Angered by a Supreme Court ruling that gave local governments more power to seize people's homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one of the court's justices evicted from his own home.
Right-to-privacy groups said an attempt by the Bush administration to force Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of materials from its databases set a dangerous precedent that should worry all Americans.
I’m betting that Jerry Bremer, former 'viceroy' of Baghdad, had sent his new book to the publishers before mid-summer of last year, since he neglected to edit out 2 embarrassing associations with Ziad Cattan, now a fugitive involving $1.2 bil
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the real estate market was slowing "dramatically" and only a "miracle" could stop soaring mortgage rates from eating into housing prices.
While the Mexican government has vigorously denied that its military is crossing into the US, Rep. Rick Renzi said that during a tour of the Arizona border showed him military-style humvees lining up at dusk just south of the border to move drugs int
The CIA warned its operatives to stay out of Italy after learning that Italian prosecutors were preparing to seek arrest warrants in the agency's 2003 kidnapping of a radical Muslim preacher, according to an e-mail message recovered from the comp
House Democrats are pushing the ethics committee to investigate allegations of congressional offices providing privleged information to "day traders" in the offices of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and former House Majority Leade
Iraq's Shi'ites were confirmed in power by election results with a near- majority, opened negotiations with Kurds and Sunni Arabs on a national unity government. Baghdad sealed off by security forces on alert for attacks by Sunni rebels who a
One day after a New York investment group raised $110,000 for Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis, the House passed a defense spending bill that preserved $160 million for a Navy project critical to the firm. The man who protected the Navy money? Lewis.
The conservative Shiite United Iraqi Alliance took 128 of parliament's 275 seats and their allies in the previous government, the Kurdish Alliance took 53 seats, leaving them only three seats short of the two thirds majority needed to elect a pre
Large police departments have only started to embrace public surveillance in the past six years or so, long after privately owned cameras became ubiquitous at banks, ATMs and stores.
Offering a sneak preview of his economic State of the Union, President Bush said that budget deficits do not justify tax increases. "The best way to solve the deficit is to grow the economy, not run up your taxes," Bush told a friendly cro
"As Republican chairman, I am proud of my party and loyal to our members. But if Republicans are guilty of illegal or inappropriate behavior, they should pay the price and suffer the consequences,'' Ken Mehlman said.
Mike Richwalsky has an online helper who keeps him informed. It tells him when his friends post new items on their websites or new photos to sites like Flickr. It advises him on what Netflix movies he might want to rent and gives him the latest scoop
Threats like this are increasingly being carried out - helping drive oil to $66 per barrel this week. Four international oil workers were taken hostage by armed men in speedboats last week. Nigeria's production has dropped by nearly 10 percent.
Cuba will be allowed to play in the World Baseball Classic, after all. The US Treasury Department issued a license allowing the Cubans to participate in the 16-team tournament
