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Budget cuts and poor management may be jeopardizing the future of our eyes in orbit — America's fleet of environmental satellites, vital tools for forecasting hurricanes, protecting water supplies and predicting global warming.
Now I’ve seen the nominees—we see them every year—and I've come to a conclusion—Iraqis need an award show. While the Hollywood glitterati make good entertainers, our local super stars, Hakeem, Jaffari, Talabani, Allawi et al. make GREAT entertain
The Iraq casualties reflected on this map are names released by the Pentagon as of June 29, 2005. It doesn't include 37 soldiers whose hometowns were in other "non-continental states", US territories and, in one case, a different countr
Kirby Puckett died Monday, a day after the Hall of Fame outfielder had a stroke at his Arizona home. He was 45. Puckett died at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. He had been in intensive care since having surgery at another hos
A bill sponsored by Rep. Hunter calls for sensitive facilities, such as ports and power plants, to be owned by Americans. Rep. Collins said national security agencies need a bigger voice in the process now led by the Treasury Department.
Cindy Sheehan, who drew international attention when she camped outside President Bush's ranch to protest the Iraq war, was arrested along with 3 other women during a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
"The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaeda," US Rep. John Murtha (R-PA) said on CBS's "Face the Nation." A top-level commander "said China wants us there also. Why? Because we're depleting our troop
President Bush faces the task of selling the trip's centerpiece—a nuclear accord with India—to a Congress increasingly willing to challenge him on foreign policy. The agreement gives India access to US technology and fuel to build up a civilian a
He had kept a famous music store open in Baghdad until last summer, when conditions made purveying Western CDs too dangerous. To support his young and growing family, Allan Enwiya turned to interpreting for American reporters, a job that he had dabbl
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have taken the extraordinary step of cutting down thousands of trees in Teheran to prevent UN inspectors from finding traces of enriched uranium from a top-secret nuclear plant. [Enriching in capital city! No way!]
Since Bush has been falling in the polls, and is no longer concerned with being re-elected, Karl Rove has suggested Republican legislators in uncertain districts put some distance between themselves and unpopular Bush policies they supported.
The computer, purportedly stolen from an Iranian nuclear engineer and obtained by the CIA in 2004, contained documents and diagrams, including a presentation in Farsi "with catchy graphics", that demonstrates Tehran's intention to build
Tens of thousands of people have been held "arbitrarily" in Iraq since March 2003, creating a situation that is ripe for abuse. Most of those held were neither charged nor faced trial and had no basic right to challenge their detention.
Iran faces “tangible and painful consequences” if it continues its nuclear activities and the US will use “all tools at our disposal” to stop this threat, US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said, ahead of a crucial international meeting on Iran.
The agency entrusted with protecting the US homeland is having difficulty safeguarding its own headquarters, say private security guards at the complex. When an envelope with suspicious powder was opened last fall at Homeland Security Dept. headquart
2 years ago, Riyadh Adhadh cursed the US soldiers who had overrun his homeland. Last week, his Sunni Arab neighborhood under attack by Shiite militiamen, he found himself on the phone in panic, begging the US Embassy to send US soldiers.
It sounds a little weird to think of the NWFP and Balochistan as "foreign land" but that's exactly what it is, despite what the map says. The Islamabad government has waged several out-and-out wars against the Balochs (with a significa
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for measures to "basically halt" the destruction of the nation's environment in the name of economic growth. "We must work ceaselessly if we are to create clean and pleasant living and working
Had the terrorists succeeded in penetrating the guarded facility and detonating their bombs inside, they might have released toxic chemicals that could have killed and sickened thousands.The damage to the world economy would have been severe
Bush didn't nominate members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board until 6 months after the panel was created. The chair of the board is Carol Dinkins, a former law partner of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They are not funded
Former FEMA director Brown: "They’ve got to keep me out there as a scapegoat. If they get rid of Chertoff, they have no new scapegoat. Then it goes to the White House." Now with the President’s apparent silence as Brown informs him of pendi
The government logs show that Qahtani "was threatened with dogs, placed in extreme and debilitating isolation for three months prior to the period the interrogation log covers, and subjected to unlawful 'aggressive' interrogation tactics
"It's going to be tough to argue that Iran and North Korea should be denied nuclear technology while India – which has failed to even join the Nonproliferation Treaty – is given the same technology on a silver platter," said Worl
They were told that the amount [of money] they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn
The March 14 local elections are the first test for new voter-identification requirements that voters imposed on themselves in 2004 with their passage of Proposition 200. That means when residents trek to the polls, they'll have to do more than r
Sheriff's deputies had arrested more than 50 people on suspicion of conspiring with a human smuggler, to illegally enter the US. Last year another case of human smuggling got a lot of attention. It also involved the sheriff and his new best frien
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley and other high-ranking officials were involved in steering the contract toward a Pennsylvania company whose senior partners included a recently retired four-star Air Force general. $25 million higher t
Despite the 6th Amendment's guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts. Instances of such secrecy more than doubled from 2003 to 2005.
Pakistani army helicopters pounded mountains near the Afghan border on Sunday after nearly 50 people were killed in clashes with pro-Taliban militants in response to President Bush meeting with President Musharraf in the capital
Hindu priests who look after the memorial of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi conducted a purification ceremony at the shrine after a visit from President Bush. But it wasn't the president who offended them, it was the sniffer-dogs who
