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An Italian judge heard arguments on whether a small-town parish priest should stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed. The priest's atheist accuser says the Roman Catholic Church has been deceiving people for 2,000 years with a fable
The NRA wants legislation specifying that people have no duty to retreat from an attacker before using deadly force. About half of all states have similar rules on the books. But in Wyoming, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is taking a stan
Patricia Santangelo just wanted to save money, but the mother of five quickly realized that acting as her own lawyer against the music companies accusing her of illegal downloading was a big-time money-burner.
An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. Their research proves the current administration has been dishones
Thousands of angry activists from the defeated Fatah Party demanded their leaders' resignations for corruption, Palestinian police stormed a parliament building in Gaza and other security forces clashed with Hamas gunmen — signs of growing insta
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said she was considering running for office against Sen. Diane Feinstein while she waited for the California lawmaker to back a filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
President Bush will use his new budget to propose cutting the size of the Army Reserve to its lowest level in 3 decades come as the Defense Department struggles to trim personnel costs and other expenses to pay for the war in Iraq and a host of othe
Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), a co-sponsor of the 2005 joint resolution, has confirmed that Senate Majority leader Bill Frist (R- TN) will attempt to bring the controversial legislation to the floor this year for a full vote.
Three in four Americans want President Bush to disclose his aides' links with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a demand the White House has rejected so far, according to a poll published on Saturday.
Bucklew also hailed Burke, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. "This is a bad thing, but he certainly has a past he can be proud of." That past, and his cooperation with investigators looking into a bribery scam at SOCom, helped Burke get a
Britain has struck a conciliatory tone ahead of crunch talks next weeks on Iran's nuclear programme, saying diplomacy was the only way to solve the dispute and military action was not on the cards.
32 people ranging in age from 19 to 81 will begin federal trials for peacefully walking onto a military base in protest of a controversial Army training school. Each person faces up to 6 months in prison and a $5,000 fine for this act of nonviolent c
The Islamic group Hamas staged a stunning upset of the ruling Fatah faction in Palestinian parliamentary polls, winning a solid outright majority of the total 132 seats and making the strongest ever showing of an Islamist movement in the Arab world.
A leaked letter from Mr Burnham indicates that the chips will use radio frequencies to allow "contactless" reading of the card by special scanners. Receivers could easily be boosted to receive signals from much further away.
French President Jacques Chirac took a call from Canada's newly elected leader only to find he had been fooled by a pair of radio pranksters known as the "Masked Avengers" in Montreal.
Mexico's foreign secretary suggested Thursday that uniformed men using a military-style Humvee to help drug traffickers on the border could have been U.S. soldiers or criminals disguised as Mexican troops.
The FBI arrested two Federal Emergency Management Agency employees at their New Orleans base camp on Friday and accused them each of taking $10,000 in bribes from a food services contractor, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who rose to national prominence as the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, appears likely to face a serious primary challenge this year that could measure the depth of his party's discontent over the Iraq
The U.S. economy ended 2005 on a surprisingly soft note as consumer spending grew at the slowest rate since 2001 and businesses were less eager to boost investment, a government report on Friday showed.
President Bush said he has exclusive authority over a broad range of issues — including forbidding White House officials to testify before Congress about the government's Hurricane Katrina response and ordering warrantless electronic surveillance
Several privacy and civil-liberties organizations are mounting a legal challenge to prevent VoIP and other Internet-based communications from being subject to taps from law-enforcement agencies.
Afghanistan may need foreign troops for another 5-10 years to combat terrorism and insurgents, President Hamid Karzai said. NATO has fielded 9,000 troops across Kabul, and 6,000 in Taliban strongholds. The US has 19,000 which hunts down insurgents.
Google attorneys will square off against the U.S. Department of Justice at a February 27 hearing over the issue of providing the government with information about searches for pornography on the company's site.
China is preparing to "strike hard" against rising public unrest, a senior police official said according to state media on Thursday, highlighting the government's fears for stability even as the economy booms.
President Bush, who has faced heat from conservative Republicans over high budget deficits, pledged to take a tougher stance toward Congress over spending, including vetoing bills if necessary.
The public thinks the federal deficit will grow larger by the end of President Bush's second term and many people think the health care system will be weaker by then, according to a CBS-New York Times poll.
Astronomers last year spotted a star leaving the Milky Way Galaxy. Later one or two more were detected. And today, researchers announced the discovery of yet two more outbound stars.
Canadian Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper has defended plans to send military ice-breakers to the Arctic in defiance of criticism from Washington. US ambassador David Wilkins said that Washington opposed the plan and, like most other countries, d
The top US commander in Iraq acknowledged that the Army was stretched but insisted forces here were capable of accomplishing their mission and any recommendation to reduce troops further would be dictated by the situation on the battlefield.
A joint U.S. Air Force and DARPA project is moving speedily along— intended to fly to Mach 20, plus some. A Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle-1 (HTV-1) is now on the books for a less than one-hour flight in September 2007.
