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Big plays from Willie Parker and Hines Ward put a shine on a lackluster performance that was still strong enough for the Pittsburgh Steelers to beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in Super Bowl XL on Sunday.
US-sponsored democracy-building programs are facing increased scrutiny worldwide, has bolstered Chávez's claims that the US is meddling in Venezuelan affairs. US aid agencies have been under scrutiny in Venezuela since it was revealed that some m
The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work i
[It is called the Constitution morons!] As Capitol Hill prepares to battle the White House over George Bush's expanding war powers, moderate Senators on both sides of the aisle are quietly considering a range of options that would attempt at the
Alarmed at an outbreak of brazen killings in their once relatively peaceful enclave of Hai al-Salam, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims and Christians have begun working side-by-side to guard their western Baghdad neighborhood. [Best wishes!]
[Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?] A Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States.
To the displeasure of the Israeli delegation the resolution on Iran states: "... the objective of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, including their means of delivery."
Battered by government scandals, Costa Rica slid further into uncertainty on Monday when a presidential election that could decide the future of a trade deal with Washington hung by a thread.
Majority Leader Boehner said Republicans risk losing seats in the election if violence and instability in Iraq continue. Lawmakers are concerned about polls showing the public is pessimistic about the situation in Iraq. President Bush's Iraq stra
The 17 members of Congress who went to Dublin, Ireland, on an Aspen Institute-paid trip last summer got a walking tour of the city. They also spent 6 hours each of the 4 days in discussions with scholars and policymakers about US relations with Europ
All the Superbowl commercials. Unfortunately most suck IMHO. Includes some of the rejected GoDaddy ads and V is for Vendetta trailer. My fav: FedEx's Stick
The campaign to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon has now moved to the U.N. Security Council, but countries there have vastly different ideas of what the council should do.
Protests against Chinese police erupted in the home village of a detained rights activist in Shandong province on Sunday, a week after Premier Wen Jiabao visited the province to promote "harmony" in the countryside.
The use of military force to quash Iran's nuclear plans appeared more likely after a UN agency resolution on the issue and amid Tehran's continued resistance to a Russian compromise solution, Russian media said.
In an interview that aired on PBS on Friday, Feb. 3, Colin Powell's former chief of staff claimed that the speech Powell made before the UN on Feb. 5, 2003, laying out a case for war with Iraq, included falsehoods of which Powell had never been m
This year's State of the Union address, which was panned by a chorus of conservative commentators, has intensified the debate about Bush's political philosophy. ['Blame Bush, re-elect me' campaign, eh?]
Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the
Applying economic sanctions on Iran without U.N. backing would be legitimate if other efforts failed to convince Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
A new counterterrorism strategy devised by the Pentagon will measure and review military operations to determine whether or not more terrorists are being stopped or "created," the plan "orders the military to focus on 9 areas identifie
President Bush will propose shrinking an array of domestic programs and cut billions from the Medicare health program when he sends Congress a $2.7 trillion budget on Monday.
[Interesting account of how well organized is al-Qaida.] An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said
The Pentagon is tripling its spending to about $3.5 billion, on a newly expanded effort to combat the rising number of increasingly powerful homemade bombs that are the No. 1 killer of U.S. troops in Iraq.
Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat
Cave drawings thought to be older than those in the famed caves of Lascaux have been discovered in a grotto in western France. First analysis suggests the drawings were made some 25,000 years ago.
In Attention Deficit Democracy, Bovard explains how supposedly free citizens have bought into the lies and frauds offered by the political class. A fair-minded account of what has gone wrong in America rather than a partisan attack.
[What oil money?] Iraqi and American officials say they are seeing a troubling pattern of government corruption enabling the flow of oil money and other funds to the insurgency and threatening to undermine Iraq's struggling economy.
The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long war," yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions U.S. troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional th
Thousands of federal, state and local law enforcement officers have descended on Detroit to cast a security net over Super Bowl XL in one of the largest such efforts in U.S. history. Some Canadian border enforcement officers have been deputized
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has voted to report Iran to the Security Council over its nuclear activities. Twenty-seven states out of 35 on the IAEA board backed the move, with three against and five abstentions.
Residents rejected a proposal to evict Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his farmhouse to make way for the "Lost Liberty Hotel." But voters deciding which issues should go on the town's March ballot replaced the group's propos
