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Mistakes in U.S. Middle East policy have made America less safe and aided the militant group Hamas's victory in Palestinian elections, Democratic and Republican lawmakers told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday.
The Patriot Act is headed toward renewal with broad Senate support for a White House-brokered compromise that adds modest new civil liberties protections to the terror-fighting law. "The outcome here is absolutely predetermined," Senate Maj
"Ultimately I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry," Cheney said in his first interview since the incident. "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend, and that's something I'
The Department of Justice has told the US Supreme Court that inmates held at Guantanamo Bay cannot challenge their detention by relying on the Constitution because "the Constitution does not guarantee aliens held abroad a right to habeas corpus.
"It is normal for countries to manage the Internet in accordance with law and to guide its development in a healthy and orderly fashion. China has also borrowed and learned from the US and other countries in the world."
As Washington's dependence on African oil intensifies, some analysts predict the region will increasingly play host to confrontations between U.S. forces deployed there and various insurgent groups, predominantly Islamic extremists.
Iraq's Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in the country, after 10 more men were shot execution-style and dumped. US soldiers had detained 22 Iraqi men wearing police uniforms
In 1984, the Rex-84 readiness exercise program was conducted by 34 federal departments and agencies,... which was conducted alongside another drill, "Night Train 84," also tested military readiness to round up and detain citizens in case
Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the US it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet.
Despite reports of growing tensions and even occasional clashes between Islamists and nationalists, the predominantly Sunni insurgency in Iraq appears increasingly united and confident of victory. "Over time, the insurgency appears to have becom
He's fat, ugly and poisonous—and he's mutating. He's the cane toad introduced into Australian that has since become an ecological catastrophe. They can hop up to 1.1 miles a night, a record for any frog or toad. But even more remarkable:
... provide an additional $75 million in emergency funding to step up pressure on the government, including expanding radio and television broadcasts into Iran and promoting internal opposition to the rule of religious leaders.
Republicans may change the rules allowing former senators to attend weekly GOP luncheon meetings after retired Sen. Lauch Faircloth got caught attended a session while lobbying a bill pending on the floor.
Thousands of lobbyists were unable to file their disclosure reports electronically as required by a new congressional system. Unable to use the new filing method, they were forced to print out their reports and mail or fax them with a cover letter ex
Vice President Dick Cheney says he has the power to declassify government secrets, raising the possibility that he authorized his former chief of staff to pass along sensitive prewar data on Iraq to reporters.
Attorney General Gonzales has not turned over emails that incriminate Vice President Cheney, his aides, and other White House officials in unmasking Plame Wilson's identity. Cheney was interviewed by prosecutors and testified that neither he nor
Vice President Dick Cheney said he may be called as a witness in the case of his former aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who faces perjury and other charges in the leak of a CIA operative's identity. "I may well be called as a witness
Last week US defence chiefs unveiled their plan for battling global Islamist extremism. They envisage a conflict fought in dozens of countries and for decades to come. We look in detail at this seismic shift in strategic thinking, and what it will me
The Wall Street Journal poll said the president received a 58% "negative" rating, up from 56% last month, despite State of Union rallying speech. With 40% of US voters giving Bush a "positive" rating, down from 43% in January.
Ali Mohaqeq Nasab seems to thrive on controversy. Just a month after being released from prison, he is back at the very activity that landed him in trouble in the first place: editing his Women's Rights magazine.
Germany's constitutional court has scrapped a law allowing the military to shoot down passenger planes suspected of being hijacked for terror attacks. The government had no right to kill those on the plane to try to save the lives of others.
After meeting with farmers disgruntled over confiscation of their land near Beijing, the middleman who engineered the encounter asked if the journalists were satisfied with the interview. If not, he had other stories to offer. "How about underg
A federal judge ordered California to reformulate the lethal-injection method used to kill condemned inmates, saying the original might be unconstitutionally painful.
It is not often that the menu of a presidential inaugural dinner provides insight into a country's development plans. At the dinner for Bolivia's Evo Morales— the fare included coca cake, coca cookies, coca wine and coca sweets.
The law makes it a crime to anonymously "annoy, abuse, threaten or harass" another person over the Internet. It carries a prison sentence of up to two years and an unspecified fine for those convicted of violations.
The United Nations is demanding the immediate closing of America's Guantanamo Bay detention center. The UN is also calling for the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees,
America's major NATO allies have cut military manpower and defense funds as a share of their economies since the 9/11 attacks, in sharp contrast with the US, which embarked on deficit spending to boost arms outlays to fight global terrorists.
In the Name of Allah,which explores the struggles of homosexual Muslims. Gay Indian Muslim Parvez Sharma is directing the movie, which looks at gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
Britain's lower chamber of Parliament voted for now to require all citizens who want a passport to have a national identity card as well — a compromise on a measure that originally required all Britons to carry a national ID card. [We'll be b
The Road To Guantanamo, tells the story of 3 British Muslims who travelled in 2002 to a wedding in Pakistan and ended up as terrorist suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. They were released in 2004.
