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Who's in charge of security at U.S. seaports? There's no simple answer to that question. All seaports are different and the biggest ones are complex. Responsibility for security is spread among government agencies: the Coast Guard, Customs an
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has turned to the masterminds behind her husband's 1992 presidential victory—James Carville and Paul Begal—to raise money needed to keep her in the Senate and possibly help finance a White House run of her own.
Dubai Ports World will delay taking over management of the US ports "while it engages in further consultations with the Bush administration, congressional leadership and port authorities to address concerns over future security arrangements.
This afternoon Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, told Tony Snow that the president is now considering delaying the deal and pointed out that the sale of the company is not yet a done deal in the United Kingdom either.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York ordered the Defense Department to release uncensored transcripts of detainee hearings, which contain the names of detainees in custody and those who have been held and later released. Previously released
Tom Dillon, 19, a pre-pharmacy major at the University of Connecticut, is carrying $52,000 in student loans. And he's just getting started. When he gets his pharmacy doctorate in four years, he expects his debt to exceed $150,000. Dillon's be
Federal agents seized tons of fossilized dinosaur eggs, pine cones and other artifacts at the nation's largest gem show after determining the items had been smuggled out of Argentina. Authorities said 3 small watermelon-sized eggs and 14,400 poun
But this is going to be worse, I think. This may be the start of when it all goes really wrong and the thing that we all fear - the sectarian war that will destroy my country and my children's future - may be about to begin.
The National Rifle Association urged a judge to overturn San Francisco's voter-approved handgun ban, arguing the city can't ban the guns because state law allows them.
The attack on the al-Askariya shrine marks the first time that Iraqi sectarian violence has targeted one of the country's central religious symbols. The Shia Muslim shrine has existed in the middle of the ancient city of Samarra, one of the large
China's currency rose Friday to its highest closing level against the U.S. dollar since a revaluation last July, after the biggest one-day drop in the opening dollar/yuan parity rate this year.
Nabil Amen wrote it off as mistaken identity the first time U.S. border agents handcuffed him as he returned home from Canada. When he had border-crossing troubles a third time, he decided to never leave the United States again.
The X Prize Foundation is seeking public comment on draft rules for a lunar lander contest. “Our goals are completely parallel,” Murphy said of the foundation and NASA. “We want NASA to make things possible, and the space industry want to make things
The American Civil Liberties Union released newly obtained documents Thursday showing that senior Defense Department officials approved aggressive interrogation techniques that FBI agents deemed abusive, ineffective and unlawful.
The blast seemed a lot like a gamma-ray burst, the most distant and powerful type of explosion known to astronomers. But the explosion was about 25 times closer and lasted 100 times longer than a typical gamma-ray burst.
Driver was accused of beating a detainee known as Habibullah, who the Army says died of his injuries. 2 detainees, men known as Dilawar and Habibullah, died within days of each other in Bagram. Both cases were ruled homicides and were beaten to death
[How does this work during a curfew?] Religious leaders summoned Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis to joint prayer services amid an extraordinary daytime curfew aimed at halting a wave of sectarian violence that has killed nearly 130 people since the bom
To people in Silicon Valley and around the country concerned about the outsourcing of jobs to India, President Bush offered something to make the practice more palatable. Pizza. It's just one of the US products that India's is developing an a
[What? Do I look like a physicist!] A quantum computer has solved a computational problem without running a program. Scientists gleaned the answer to an algorithm by combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation in an optical-based quantum
A deal that allows an Arab-owned company in Dubai to manage 6 major US ports was scrutinized for security risks by an obscure intelligence agency that existed for only 4 months. Many of the functions were transferred to Negroponte's office from t
16-year-old was arrested after postings on MySpace.com showed him holding handguns. 3 misdemeanor charges of juvenile possession of a handgun. Police searched the boy's home after report from High School where he was suspended.
Taiwan needs to purchase 8 submarines President Bush had promised to sell the island to counter rival China's looming military threat, said Rep. Rob Simmons, all of which could be built in a shipyard in his home state of Connecticut.
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- For years, the U.S. military has explored a new kind of firepower that is instantaneous, precise and virtually inexhaustible: beams of electromagnetic energy. "Directed-energy'' pulses can be throttled up or down
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made a sudden visit to China. Kim's itinerary appeared designed to let him see first hand the success of China's special economic zones. "The rapid changes in the southern part of China have given us unfor
Over at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds procurement officers quietly placed orders for a system of bacteria-growing fermentors with a total capacity of 3,500 liters of bacteria and the possibility of another 5 fermentors in the future. That is
Three men - including a bank employee - have been charged.
The US has brushed off Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's latest taunts to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and his new threat to cut off oil supplies [to the US].
Lockheed Martin is now testing Cormorant, a stealthy autonomous spy jet that starts and ends its mission 150 feet under water.
An extensive investigation of embattled Fannie Mae points to its former finance chief and controller as mainly responsible for the accounting failures at the mortgage giant now struggling to emerge from an $11 billion scandal. Fannie Mae executives —
A gang of armed robbers has stolen at least £25m - £40m from a security depot in Kent. The BBC News website looks at the key events in what is thought to be Britain's biggest robbery.
