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A Mexican government agency is to issue some 70,000 maps marking main roads and water tanks for people wanting to cross illegally into the US. The National Human Rights Commission says the maps will be aimed at cutting the death toll among migrant
Law enforcement and Newton Free Library officials were embroiled in a tense standoff for nearly 10 hours when the city refused to let police and the FBI examine library computers without a warrant. Police rushed to the main library [3 hours] after a
20 years ago, space shuttle Challenger blew apart into jets of fire and plumes of smoke, a terrifying sight witnessed by the families of the 7 astronauts and by those who came to watch the historic launch of the first teacher in space.
A judge ordered the US government to hand some classified documents to the attorneys of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French Al-Qaeda member who could face the death penalty after admitting his role in the September 11 attacks.
NEW DELHI - A landmark nuclear deal between India and the United States will "die" in Washington if New Delhi supports Iran at the upcoming meeting of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency, the U.S. ambassador said Wednesday.
Groups fighting for the rights of peasant communities are stepping up pressure on governments to ban the use of genetically modified ''suicide seeds'' at UN-sponsored talks on biodiversity in Spain this week.
So it was sort of a surprise when Bush, upon finding out about Khans proliferation of nuclear technology, let Pakistan off with a slap on the wrist. But it was all an act. In fact, it was actually a cover-up designed to shield Cheney because he
More than 400 detainees being held in Iraqi and US-run prisons, including five women, have been released in a move which could help free abducted US reporter Jill Carroll.
What transpired was what the retired Army colonel most feared: He and his daughter were among a mass of protesters arrested, handcuffed and detained for as long as 36 hours, an ordeal that included hours confined on a bus and many more hours on floor
The Islamic militant group Hamas swept to victory over the long-dominant Fatah faction on Thursday in the Palestinian parliamentary election, a political earthquake that could bury chances for peacemaking with Israel.
Soldiers prosecuted in the abuse or even deaths of detainees rarely have paid a heavy price, an indication of the difficulties the U.S. military has had sorting out right from wrong during the war on terrorism. Charged with murder in an Iraqi general
President Bush, defending the government's secret surveillance program, said that Americans should take Osama bin Laden seriously when he says he's going to attack again.
Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, who turned out to be right about Iraq not having unconventional weapons, says the US should offer Iran a range of inducements to keep it from developing nuclear weapons.
The Stop Badware Coalition will seek to spotlight companies that make millions of dollars by tricking Web users into putting spyware, adware or other deceptive software on their machines. Financially backed by Google Inc., Lenovo Group and Sun Micros
Iraq's top Sunni Muslim political party called on its followers to use any means necessary to defend their homes, saying the government is too weak to protect Sunni neighborhoods from violent raids by the Shiite Muslim-dominated police.
Texas law enforcement officers faced off with men dressed as Mexican Army soldiers and apparent drug suspects near the US-Mexican border, after 3 SUVs attempted to flee state authorities across the banks of the Rio Grande
The Bush administration rejected a 2002 Senate proposal that would have made it easier for FBI agents to obtain surveillance warrants in terrorism cases, concluding that the system was working well and that it would likely be unconstitutional to lowe
President Bush nominated one of the Justice Department's lead prosecutors in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe to a U.S. District Court seat.
Republican lawmakers yesterday ended their long practice of routinely summoning lobbyists to the Capitol to try to persuade them to hire their aides and colleagues, in the wake of the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal.
A poll released last week by Zogby International showed 52 percent of American adults thought Congress should consider impeaching Bush if he wiretapped US citizens without court approval, including 59 percent of independents and 23 percent of Republi
[The tidbits start to come out.] Acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt's political action committee received its biggest contributions from the coffers of a "world class phone sex operator,"
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of a convict who was already strapped to a table with intravenous tubes in his arms when a high court justice stayed his execution.
Intel Corp. has made the world's first microchip using tiny new manufacturing methods made fingernail-sized memory chips etched with 1 billion transistors that are only 45 nanometers wide. "It will pack about two times as many transistors pe
Most of us aren't wild about paying for the Bush administration with our taxes, but one thing we have a right to expect is that our government would protect us from mass murderers and would chase them down and arrest them. It has not done that. W
Stretched by frequent troop rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has become a "thin green line" that could snap unless relief comes soon, according to a study for the Pentagon.
Wouldn't it be cool to fight with robots? Way cool. Yeah, and lets have elite, small fighting forces who can get in and get out. [And leave the countries they attack in shambles.]
George Bush yesterday committed the US to the defence of Israel against threats from Iran, saying he would not allow the world to be "blackmailed" by an Iranian nuclear weapon. The president's warning, issued in an exchange with student
A leader of a Sunni resistance group, who said he recently spent time with the most wanted man in Iraq, reportedly said the militant leader wore a suicide belt even when asleep. "He told me: 'I would rather blow myself up and die as a martyr
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) had accepted the House-Senate compromise as a less-than-perfect option. Yesterday, he told colleagues that it probably is the best deal they can get.
A senior Iranian official threatened that Tehran may forcibly prevent oil export via the Straits of Hormuz if the UN imposed economic sanctions due to Iran's nuclear program. This is the first time an Iranian official makes military threats in a
