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Plans for foregin oil companies, some from China and India, to drill off the coast of Cuba are prompting calls from lawmakers to ease environmental restrictions that prohibit coastal drilling in most of the US
A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than 2 months after Congress last raised the the federal government's borrowing limit.
Iranian President Ahmadinejad sent an unexpected letter to President Bush, in what was seen as an overture for direct talks about Tehran's nuclear program, but US officials dismissed the missive as a ploy to forestall punitive action by the UN.
The war in Iraq is more unpopular than was the Vietnam conflict at this stage, polls show. More Americans -- 57 percent -- say sending troops to Iraq was a mistake than the 48 percent who called Vietnam an error in April 1968, polls by the Princet
Once the color barrier has been broken, minority contractors seeking government work may need to overcome the Bush barrier. That's the message U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson seemed to send during an April 28 talk
The 18-page document has not yet been made public, but according to leaks, Mr Ahmadinejad spoke of the invasion of Iraq, a US cover-up over the 11 September 2001 attacks, the issue of Israel's right to exist and the role of religion in the world
In the summer and fall of 1794, President George Washington, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, and General Henry Lee began making mass arrests of American citizens. Authorized neither by warrants nor by any resolution of Congress, federal
RFID chips are everywhere - companies and labs use them as access keys, Prius owners use them to start cars, and retail giants like Wal-Mart have deployed them as inventory tracking devices.
Josh Whedon won the 2005 Nebula Award, which is given out by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American, for his script for the movie "Serenity". The award was given on May 6, in Tempe Arizona.
Australians will need a photo identity card within four years to receive Medicare and welfare payments but will not be forced to carry it at all times. (Now, that's a relief)
US prosecutors warned Monday that they plan to seek harsher charges against an engineer and two kin accused of plotting to steal sensitive US Navy warship technology and trying smuggle it back to China.
The Iraq War has been fought on the cheap: not enough body armor, not enough armor on vehicles, not enough night vision equipment. It has been packages from back home have to fill some crucial needs.
Testing for the AIDS virus could become part of routine physical exams if doctors follow new US guidelines. Federal officials would like HIV testing to be as common as a cholesterol check. Apply to every American ages 13 to 64,
President Bush's approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections. The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, shows Bush*
Prosecutors are building a case against Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) based on a raft of bribery and fraud charges. The documents also show that a cooperating witness wore a wire during conversations with Jefferson, and that prosecutors are in the fi
It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one. The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced, widely available -- and, experts say, virtually uns
The Pentagon's newest counterterrorism agency, charged with protecting military facilities and personnel wherever they are, is carrying out intelligence collection, analysis and operations within the United States and abroad, according to a Penta
"If he interprets the law as he appears to be interpreting it, I think it's bad for the country to have the chief of intelligence having telephones in the United States monitored without somebody else approving it," said retired Adm. St
A Yale University historian discovered a 1918 letter that raises anew questions about a secretive Yale student society and the remains of the American Indian leader Geronimo.
Imagine if your lawn was always green and never needed mowing. That's the goal of research at the Salk Institute, where scientists have mapped a hormone-signaling pathway that regulates plant height. Could lead to grass that rarely needs mowing.
Low-lying Cessna 172s fly in grid patterns over major cities, capturing eagle-eye images of every square foot from just about every direction. Instead of just the straight-down views that distant satellites gather, the planes photograph America
The federal government spends about $20 billion a year on farm subsidies under a law due for overhaul by Congress in 2007. Mainline farm groups support a continuation of the 2002 law, which boosted crop supports sharply. Congress would be wiser if
Newspaper circulation fell 2.5 percent in the six-month period ending in March, according to data released Monday, as more people turned to the Internet and other media outlets for news and information.
Many Muslim and Arab Americans fear the bridge-building initiative that began after the 9/11 attacks means little more than propaganda, recruitment and spying. "It's not about reaching out to us and including us," said community activis
Three apparently coordinated car-bomb attacks in Baghdad and Karbala killed around 30 people Sunday, as Iraqi politicians said they were near agreement on cabinet posts for a new government that they promise will come to grips with the country's
"The socialism championed by [Bolivia's Morales] and Chavez is an increasing threat to the US and its economic model that has dominated for decades. That's what's at stake here," said Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Af
While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Randall "Duke" Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employess of the compan
Prime Minister Tony Blair says that any consideration of a nuclear attack against Iran would be "absoluetly absurd," and said that issue had no bearing on his decision to demote his foreign secretary.
5 airline passengers speaking in foreign languages and carrying "aircraft flight materials" were detained for hours Saturday until authorities determined they were simply returning to their home countries after attending a US helicopter tra
Gold scaled a new 25-year high on Monday, supported by a weak dollar and active buying by Japanese investors returning after a holiday, while platinum set a fresh record on bullish sentiment. The next big target of $700 an ounce in the coming
