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The new launch time is February 8 at 5:30 p.m. Arizona time with Feb. 9 as a backup day. We will actually be ready to launch earlier, but are planning to spend extra time reviewing and double-checking all vehicle systems. Following the problem on De
India considers the Syrian venture to be of enormous strategic significance for the value of underlying assets and the role it will play in cementing China-India partnership for acquiring oil and gas equities in third world countries.
U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI) announced this morning in Providence that he will vote against the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court. In a statement this morning, the Rhode Island senator said he was "greatly con
Americans' personal savings rate dipped into negative territory in 2005, something that hasn't happened since the Great Depression. Consumers depleted their savings to finance the purchases of cars and other big-ticket items.
During the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, when al Qaeda leaders were pinned down by US forces, Tabarak sacrificed himself to engineer their escape. He headed toward the Pakistani border while making calls on Osama bin Laden's satellite pho
Exxon Mobil Corp. posted record profits for any US company— $10.71 billion for the 4th quarter and $36.13 billion for the year— as the world's biggest publicly traded oil company benefited from high oil and natural-gas prices and solid demand for
The practice of providing news organizations with staged photos of events involving the president has become a regular occurrence with the Bush Administration. Each of these events were closed to news photographers. White House-manufactured images i
Congress has granted unusual authority for the Pentagon to spend as much as $200 million of its own budget to aid foreign militaries, a break with the traditional practice of channeling foreign military assistance through the State Department.
Iran says it will launch medium-range missiles if attacked, and accused Britain and the USof arming rebels in its south. Shahab-3 missiles place Israel, US bases in the Gulf and foreign troops in Iraq within their range.
The Americans have warned India that its nuclear deal signed during their Prime Minister's trip to Washington will die in Congress if it doesn't back the US on Iran. From India's perspective that's bare-knuckle diplomacy at its worst.
THE drab compound that houses the Iranian embassy in Pyongyang is the focus of intense scrutiny by diplomats and intelligence services who believe that North Korea is negotiating to sell the Iranians plutonium that would hand Tehran a rapid route to
They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. Stood up to the hard-liners, centered in the office of the vice president, who wan
ABC News Co-Anchor Bob Woodruff and a Cameraman Injured in IED Attack in Iraq
London police faked vital evidence to cover up their fatal role in the shooting of an innocent Brazilian, mistaken for a suicide bomber. The blame would have been pinned on senior police commanders leaving them open to murder charges
Barely eight months after taking office, World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is fulfilling the fears of some staffers who looked askance at the hawkish former Pentagon number two's appointment.
Massive flows of capital from the emerging to the developed world are unsustainable and risk damaging both poor and rich countries. The U.S. absorbs roughly 70 percent of excess global savings. The danger to the world economy is that when the inflows
While the sun shines on the economy, influential voices warned its leaders to make essential repairs now in case of storms ahead. The weak link is the over-stretched US consumer, mortgaged to the hilt in a booming housing market. With jacking up inte
Scientists have discovered an undersea deposit of frozen methane just off the Southern California coast, but whether it can be harnessed as a potential energy source is unknown.
The Bush administration wants to restart a controversial program to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a technology abandoned by the United States decades ago as a costly security risk
The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called "stop-loss," but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen flat.
The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world
Even though Ms. Rogers received a refund after she confronted the seller, eBay refused to remove hundreds of listings for identical "Weiss" pieces. It said it had no responsibility for the fakes because it was nothing more than a marketplac
NOT long after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in 2003, a top aide to Paul Bremer, then head of the American occupation authority, excitedly explained that Iraq had just become the front line in Washington's effort to neutrali
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.
Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons. [even if = $6/gal. gas?]
When it comes to home entertainment - music and movies - the Senate is considering making those rules a lot more annoying. A bill, the Digital Content Protection Act of 2006, is designed to give the FCC control over home entertainment technology.
The US Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, US military documents show.
