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Iraqi authorities have no intention of continuing to use Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison after the US military ends operations there in the next few months, Iraq's justice minister said. [And we just spent so many $millions to redecorate.]
Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit. This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. They don't know how they did it.
More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency.
A New York Times article reports that last July's discovery at Purdue is under close peer review,... but shhhhhhhh.
Should we be worried?... Why?
Last June, the U.S. Navy signed on too, awarding ISS a $50 million contract to be the “Husbanding Agent” for vessels in most Southwest Asia ports, including those in the Middle East, according to an unclassified Navy logistics manual, for the Fifth F
Resistance to foreign ownership of U.S. port operations spilled over into the aviation arena when a congressional committee told the Bush administration to postpone a plan to allow more foreign control of domestic airlines.
Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. From the same two clients he took to the White House in May 2001, Abramof
The chief of an Indian tribe represented by the lobbyist Jack Abramoff was admitted to a meeting with President Bush in 2001 days after the tribe paid a prominent conservative lobbying group $25,000 at Mr. Abramoff's direction, according to docum
Civil liberties groups asked federal courts to halt the Bush administration's program of domestic eavesdropping, saying it violated the privacy and free speech rights of US citizens. Republican senators were working to allow eavesdropping without
"In the wiretapping ... you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation," says a congressional historian at B
The case was brought by two former Custer Battles employees under a Civil War-era law that allows individuals to file lawsuits in secret on behalf of the government. Under the law, the cases are sealed while the government determines whether to join
The northern part of the Bering Sea is now becoming vulnerable to invasion by species from warmer, southern seas which could severely affect local wildlife.
The deadly H5N1 virus could spread to North America in the form of an outbreak in as little as six months, potentially causing an epidemic.
Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry, the U.S. military's detainee operations spokesman, said that no date had been set for the handover but it would probably happen in two to three months.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Thursday the U.N. Security Council should issue a "vigorous response" to Iran's nuclear ambitions or the United States might have to consider other steps.
The flip side of the real estate boom. Years of rising home values have boosted property taxes steadily. Now, homeowners across the US are fighting back. "Real estate growth and real estate boom seem to be happening all over the country and [pro
Up to 50 people have been seized from the offices of an Iraqi security firm by people wearing police uniforms. It is unclear whether they have been arrested or kidnapped. An interior ministry official said police had no involvement in the Baghdad
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), said the plan fails to attack the problem of debt that he said is expected to grow by hundreds of billions of dollars. "I see it as a staying-the-course budget when the course is radically off the track with burgeoning d
The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, rocked for a decade by sex scandals, made its biggest admission yet: 102 of its Dublin priests, 3.6%, are suspected of abusing children. Comes a week before the government probes into how authorities covered up
A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, "God created man exactly how Bible describes it."
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential White House candidate in 2008, said some Republicans are trying to create a "police state" to round up illegal immigrants. The House measure would make unlawful presence in the US a felony.
Casino Royale goes back to Bond's roots, when he makes his first two assassinations and earns the 00 status that gives him a licence to kill. Published in 1953, it was the first book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.
1% of the titled land in the world is owned by women. A baby girl born in the UK is likely to live to 81 - but if she is born in Swaziland, she is likely to die at 39. 21% of the world's managers are female.
Ion Sancho, the Election Supervisor of Leon County, Florida who exposed a number of security flaws in Electronic Voting Machines made by the Diebold corp. has today launched legal "breach of contract" proceedings against the company.
Mr de Menezes was not carrying a bag and was wearing only a denim jacket that was unlikely to conceal explosives. It later emerged that the officers' radios did not work underground.
Those who say Iraq is nothing like Vietnam have another guess coming, says retired Gen. William Odom. He lists striking similarities and asserts that only after it pulls out of Iraq can the US hope for international support to deal with anti-Western
Roll Call today ripped into a network of former and current aides to Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), who have aided technology interests in advancing their interests while earning $20 million in lobbying fees.
"We have consistently pointed out that North Korea's missile programme is a concern that poses a threat to the region and the larger international community," the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said.
Thousands of opposition supporters and human rights activists demonstrated in Nairobi to protest against raids on Kenya's oldest newspaper and its sister television station. It was the first time government shut down major media operations.
