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The dollar fell to year-lows against the euro and sterling and a seven-month trough against the yen on market expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon end its cycle of tightening US interest rates, analysts said.
President Bush chose Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to lead the embattled CIA, re-igniting a debate over the domestic surveillance program that the one-time head of the National Security Agency once ran.
Neil Volz, who served as chief of staff to Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) and business associate of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the investigation of influence-peddling and public corruption. , pleaded guilty
Brazil has joined the select group of countries with the capability of enriching uranuim as a means of generating power.
Iran's President sent an unprecedented letter to US President George W. Bush on Monday, but it was unclear whether its content offered any practical solution to the stand-off over Tehran's nuclear programme.
The Constitutional Court in Thailand has voted to annul last month's general election, according to one of the judges on the panel, after considering complaints about the number of IREGULARITIES. (I'm so shocked)
One of the bloggers suggests that 2006 may be the year of the Lou Dobbs voter. The blogger, the Influence Peddler, is no fan. He considers Dobbs a demagogue, but he wonders whether voters are ready for a Dobbsian program of opposing illegal immigrati
Russia will seek the removal tonight of the core of a UK-sponsored draft United Nations resolution on Iran because it fears that it could pave the way to unilateral military action to curb the Iranian nuclear programme. A bruising battle looms in
President Hugo Chavez said voters should have the chance to decide whether he should govern the country for the next 25 years. Speaking at a stadium, Chavez said he would hold a referendum to put the question of his remaining in office to Venezuel
The happy face and "Have a Nice Day ☺" helped to define the '70s. With two dots and a pencil stroke, schoolchildren have brightened handwritten messages by filling in their O's with mini-smileys. These days, nary a cheery e-ma
The Chinese Academy of Sciences - the country's top scientific body - has announced that the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau are vanishing so fast that they will be reduced by 50 per cent every decade. Each year enough water permanently melts fro
Scientists have grown three-dimensional lung tissue using a "hydrogel." The home-grown organs could be used to repair the lungs of children who are born with insufficient lung development (which causes 2,800 newborn deaths in the US every y
[The problem lies within ourselves.] This could be the most dangerous period of Bush's reign. The carefully layered walls of Bush's bubble are disintegrating as the outer layers of purchased politicos are beginning to peel away, revealing th
An Oregon attorney may have the first concrete proof of Bush's domestic spying operation -- which means the illegal program's days might be numbered.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tried to rewrite history this week when he denied making prewar claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Rumsfeld's latest attempt at backtracking on his prewar rhetoric came Thursday
House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Democrats would hold hearings on the use of intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraq war and investigate the high price of energy and prescription drugs if they win the extra 15 seats they n
A push to confirm 2 of President Bush's choices to be federal judges has revived the possibility of a Senate showdown over judicial nominations. A clash over judges tied the Senate in knots last year, when Democrats threatened a "filibuster
Democratic leaders, confident they will control the House after November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their first week in power that would raise the minimum wage, roll back parts of the Republican prescription drug law, implement
[Other reasons to oppose him?] Even before President Bush has named his choice to take over the CIA, the Air Force general who is the front-runner drew fire from lawmakers who say a military man should not lead the civilian spy agency.
The press conference, in which General Hayden was attempting to answer journalists' questions about how the administration's domestic spying program appears to violate the 4th amendment. James Bamford asked General Hayden 2 questions towards
President Bush has said he would like to "end" the detention centre in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. But says he must wait for a Supreme Court ruling on whether inmates could be tried by military or civilian courts.
[While USA acts imperious.] China is expanding military and economic ties throughout Latin America, taking advantage of a wave of anti-American candidates who have come to power and a US law barring military training and aid to a dozen Latin countrie
"Do you know there's 22 Democrats that have ethics problems right now?" DeLay asked of ABC's George Stephanopoulos. DeLay claimed that 'every leader' in the Democratic Party had 'ethics problems,' including House Min
A little-known White House advisory board convinced a reluctant President Bush to launch yet another high-profile shakeup of the nation's intelligence community and can CIA Director Porter Goss, sources said yesterday.
Intelligence and law enforcement sources said solid evidence had yet to emerge that Goss also went to the parties, but Goss and Foggo share a fondness for poker and expensive cigars, and the FBI investigation was continuing. Larry Johnson, a forme
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El departamento de comercio de los EU, recientemente produjo una noticia que ha dejado al mundo descontrolado. El PIB de la nación, durante el primer trimestre del año, se ha expandido a un ritmo del casi 5% y el ingreso per capita sobre pasa los $40
Polygamist church leader Warren Jeffs has been placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in hope that the additional exposure and reward money will lead to his arrest.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Two years of Darfur peace talks characterized by setbacks and frustration ended with a final flurry of international diplomacy and a signing ceremony Friday.
The United States want direct access to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and President Bush, in his recent visit to Pakistan, told President Pervez Musharraf that US experts want to question the detained scientist
The lawyer for former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby said he would argue that his client revealed intelligence on Iraq after Vice President Cheney authorized it and President Bush declassified the information.
