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Since the late 1990s, when the expansion and adoption of the Internet created a bona fide Mecca for retailers and shoppers, people have looked forward to the day when physical cash would no longer be the mainstay of payment transactions.
Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. "Honest Injun" Bill Young of Florida, chairman of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee—was removed from the gallery because she was wearing a T-shirt that read, "Support the Troops — Defending
The remains, in a colonial era graveyard in one of the oldest European cities in Mexico, date to not long after Columbus first set foot in the Americas. The African origin of the slaves was determined by studying a chemical in their tooth enamel that
CBS News has done a nice job of providing complete coverage, if you really (?) want to see, hear, read Bush's speech, and analysis. [Hear that cash register ringing up in the background?]
"A lot of them, when they were told they were coming to Jazeera and Habaniyah, they quit," said Marine Staff Sgt. Juan Santiago of New York City, speaking of two towns just outside Bidimnah. Santiago saw more than half his trainees quit the
The Palestinian government should continue to receive international aid despite concerns over last week's election victory by Islamic militant group Hamas, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said.
"The Canadian ambassador's vehicle sustained damage yesterday from U.S. military gunfire. The rear guard on a U.S. convoy signaled the vehicle to stay back. After it failed to do so warning shots were aimed at the front of the vehicle, away
Federal appeals courts on opposite sides of the country declared the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure lacks an exception for cases in which a woman's health is at stake. Unusually sharp dissent by Judge Chester
Using a new climate predicting model, scientists can predict cloud formation on Titan 30 years into the future. That may sound like a long range forecast, but 30 Earth years correspond to just one year on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
A Florida hit man. A high-powered lobbyist. A pair of disgraced Republican congressmen. Brian Cavanaugh, assistant state attorney in Broward County, Fla. is prosecuting 3 men for murder and wants to talk to Abramoff about what role he played in the m
A videotape shows a sheriff’s deputy shooting an unarmed Air Force policeman who recently returned from Iraq as he obeyed an order to get up off the ground. A resident videotaped the shooting following a 100 mph chase.
A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any "special event of national significance" away to jail on felony charges if caught breaching a security perimeter
A class action lawsuit claims AT&T illegally cooperated with the NSA's secret eavesdropping program by opening its telecommunications facilities up to the NSA and continues to "to assist the government in its secret surveillance of millions
A Reuters photographer said Sheehan had been seated for less than a minute when a plainclothes Capitol Police officer took her by the arm, said, "You've got to leave," and rushed her from the gallery.
A Justice Department memo written in 2003 call into question the legal rationale the Bush administration has offered to justify electronic surveillance of Americans, was delivered to VP Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to Tuesday night's speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed in the House chamber, but she did not respond, the spokes
Overcrowded housing is emerging as a battleground in immigration as towns and counties crack down on landlords who permit many unrelated people to occupy single-family homes. [After years of blocking landlords efforts to evict!]
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush's State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said
Campaign-finance law has helped Indian tribes increase their political clout is under scrutiny. Last year, tribal casinos raked in nearly $20 billion in revenue, becoming political donors in the same league with drug companies and defense contractors
What will be the most repeated word in tonight's speech?
The lobbying firm of Grimes and Young Inc. is not on K Street, famous address of some of the nation's most influential lobbyists. In fact, Grimes and Young is about a 2 1/2-hour drive from the halls of Congress, in politically remote Media, Pa.,
With a new general in charge, the U.S. military's plans to fight Iraq's insurgents are expected to emphasize improving Iraqis' quality of life, rather than killing or capturing guerrillas.
Col. Janis Karpinski told that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.
Struggling to retain enough officers to lead its forces, the Army has begun to dramatically increase the number of soldiers it promotes, raising fears within the service that wartime strains are diluting the quality of the officer corps. Last year
The Senate investigation into bungled pre-war Iraq intelligence is being held up by Pentagon investigation of Douglas Feith, one of the war's leading architects, for his alleged role in manipulating pre-war intelligence to support a case f
Halliburton subsidiary KBR has agreed to lop $9 million off sole-source contracts paid for by the government with Iraqi oil money after auditors questioned $208 million in possible overcharges. Case closed.
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States are planning legislation to ban protests at the funerals of Iraq war casualties organised by a far-right religious group which believes that the deaths are divine retribution for American tolerance of homosexuality.
A judge offered a 20-year-old man facing sentencing: Enlist in the Army or go to jail for up to a year. Michael Guerra, 20, had pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree criminal contempt after he was accused of violating an order of protection.
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) charged that Alberto Gonzales misled the Senate during his confirmation hearing when he dismissed the senator's question as a "hypothetical situation" about whether the president could authorize warrantless
