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Thomas W. Noe, the coin dealer and prominent Republican contributor whose $50 million state coin investment sparked one of the biggest scandals in Ohio state government history, was indicted today on 53 felonies, including theft of more than $1 milli
The high-flying housing market should make a safe landing by gradually losing altitude, the White House suggested. "A gradual slowing of homebuilding appears more likely than a sharp drop because the elevated level of house prices will sustain h
Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA as a undercover officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran. The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valeri
When Chinese companies flooded the Nigerian market with cheaper versions of the generators Rex Nwankwu once imported from Italy, he said his business was imperiled. "People would rather buy the cheap and inferior Chinese generators, than buy one
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department today issued a report on Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting Saturday of a fellow quail hunter on a sprawling Texas ranch. The hunting accident report, a copy of which you can find below, brief
A Muslim cultural institute in Germany criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for disparaging the Holocaust, daring him to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp. "In this place of horror he can again deny the Holocaust, if he has the
CBS News reports that local law enforcement officials were prevented from interviewing Vice President Cheney after he accidentally shot a 78-year-old man during a hunting trip.
In another sign of the pressing demand for officers, the Army is recalling hundreds of officers who had returned to civilian life but who are still subject to call-up, sparking protests from some who have already served in Iraq and now face more than
Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bo
"The work has resumed (at the Natanz enrichment facility)," said Javad Vaidi, a member of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
An Iowa sheriff said he is concerned over how the US military is using restraint chairs he invented and manufactures out of Denison. The chairs are being used to force-feed prisoners of the US who are on hunger strikes at Gitmo.
A major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East. Hundreds of scientists and technicians would be targets in the opening salvos as the attacks focused on eliminating further nuclear
The US Navy has put Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean on notice: They will be intercepted, pursued, arrested and handed over to coastal states for trial (or taken to US navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba).
Homeland Security completed its “Cyber Storm” wargame to test how our government “would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.” The nature of the attacks by bloggers must
In the chronicle of abuses that has emerged from America's fight against terror, there may be no story more jarring than that of the 2 young men killed at a US military detention center in Afghanistan in December 2002. They were found dead withi
... the detainees were being interrogated and tortured, and that they were sometimes given psychotropic drugs. Some, he believed, had died in custody... the detainees were not Taliban fighters or associates of Osama bin Laden. "By the time we go
Ascension Island is left over from the British empire. Its 35 square miles is in the middle of the Atlantic between Brazil and west Africa. It is a discreet base for covert British and American operations in Africa. To prevent the indigenous populati
Over the last five years, US manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17% of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.
Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Harry Reid (D-NV), the same party leaders who persuaded him to enter the Senate race, had pushed him to step aside so that Rep. Sherrod Brown, could take on the Republican incumbent.
"Night Watch," a gritty horror movie about an epic battle between the forces of light and dark on the streets of Moscow, broke all box office records on its domestic release in July 2004. In the US, it will be distributed in Russian with En
A draft UN report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the US treatment of them violates their right to physical and mental health, and, in some cases, constitutes torture. It also urges the US to close the military prison in Cub
"Karl [Rove] was constrained, as was the entire [Whitehouse] communications operation, because the Vice President had arranged for how this [shooting] was to come out."
Many of the left-behinds and their colleagues will now be leaking embarrassing material to enterprising reporters like so many sieves, just as their outraged peers at the CIA, the NSA, the Justice Department, FEMA, and so many other purged and mangle
Syria has switched all of the state's foreign currency transactions to euros from dollars amid a political confrontation with the US, the head of state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria said. "This is a precaution. We are talking about billions
Three former associates of Jack Abramoff say the now-convicted lobbyist frequently told them he had strong ties to the White House through presidential confidant Karl Rove. Frequently Abramoff's cell phone would ring and the lobbyist would tell t
It isn’t just the men beating the teenagers, or the soldier filming the crime who are culpable. The film was shown on a military base in Europe before a whistleblower came forward. Many people witness a crime and take it for entertainment. One person
Neoconservatives in Washington are urging President Bush to drop diplomacy with Iran in favour of boosting internal dissent and opposition forces within the Islamic regime. The US state department spends roughly $4m a year on the promotion of democra
Federal investigators have accused a Pennsylvania man of trying to conspire with al-Qaeda to blow up major U.S. oil and gas pipelines and wreck the economy. Attempted to provide material aid to al-Qaeda to disrupt the federal government, to change it
Shiite lawmakers chose incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari to be Iraq's new prime minister, endorsing the physician and longtime exile for a second term by a single vote, thanks in large part to support by a radical anti-U.S. faction.
New York city's ports, considered a major target of terrorists, are about to be taken over by a firm based in the United Arab Emirates, a country with financial links to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Dubai Ports World is set to complete a $6.8 billion
