A Duke University lacrosse team captain became the 3rd player indicted in the rape scandal and the first to speak out, blasting the charges against him as "fantastic lies." "I look forward to watching them unravel in the weeks to come,
The US has restored full diplomatic ties with Libya, rewarding the longtime pariah nation for scrapping its weapons of mass destruction programs. The US also signalled incentives for Iran and North Korea if they do the same.
But I am not writing this letter simply because of an objection to the war against Iraq. My concern is more fundamental. Simply put, Rice is a liar. She has lied to the American people knowingly, repeatedly, often extravagantly over the past 5 year
A top US admiral said Monday he has issued a rare invitation to Chinese commanders to observe a US military exercise next month on Guam in an effort to strengthen ties. Admiral William Fallon, wrapping up a weeklong visit to China, said he hoped suc
The Japanese may have to find an alternative way to grab their sushi after China imposed a tax on disposable chopsticks in a bid to improve its environmental record.
The US Government has once again invoked the "state secrets" privilege, arguing that a public trial of a lawsuit against a former head of the CIA for abucting and imprisoning a German citizen would lead to disclosure of information harmful
Diebold Election Systems plans to make changes to its electronic voting machines, following the disclosure of a number of serious security flaws in the systems. Voting watchdog organization Black Box Voting published a report detailing how Diebold
Gallatin implemented strategies that reduced the massive debt accrued during preceding administrations. He moved to repeal all internal taxation, sharply curtailed federal spending and changed how the Treasury itemized its expenditures for Congressio
Tice was fired from the NSA last May. He said he plans to tell the committee staffers the NSA conducted illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of U.S. citizens while he was there with the knowledge of Hayden
Seat belt use is reaching record levels, so just who are the holdouts who fail to buckle up? Often they are young men who live in rural areas and drive pickups, the government says.
About 48 million people do not regularly put on seat belts when t
The International Monetary Fund is in behind-the-scenes talks with the US, China and other major powers to arrange a series of top-level meetings about tackling imbalances in the global economy, as the dollar sell-off reverberates through financial m
Business owners Lilia Molina and husband Norbert Delgado had been thinking for months about leaving the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. But as island politicos feuded over a budget crunch that has kept schools and government offices closed since May 1
US authorities can get access to EU citizens' data on phone calls, sms' and emails, giving a recent EU data-retention law much wider-reaching consequences than first expected. The EU data retention bill, passed in February after much controve
The attorneys told the court that the Legal Cooperation Treaty signed between Israel and the US in the late 1990s, to help with criminal investigations in both countries, can be used to take depositions from the three diplomats, who are all in Israel
The US military is preparing for the day when air power from bases along the Persian Gulf will help ensure that friendly governments in Iraq and Afghanistan survive without American ground troops. "We'll be in the region for the foreseeable
The American combat troops who remain in Iraq, and the growing number of Iraqi security forces, will still require substantial numbers of supporting American forces to remain, too, to supply food, fuel and ammunition and otherwise support combat oper
The House approved a $512.9 billion military bill that addresses a host of concerns arising from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, from combating makeshift roadside bombs to equipping more vehicles and troops with armor.
Passed on a 396-31 vote, the m
Has the Bush administration gone too far in expanding the powers of the President to fight terrorism? Yes, say a majority of Americans, following the revelation that the NSA has been secretly collecting the phone records of US citizens since the 9/11
Troops have set up 19 small base camps throughout the area and begun routinely patrolling insurgent hot spots north of the Euphrates River. The deployment follows a strategy favored by a new generation of counterinsurgency experts: disperse, mingle w
US military troops with severe psychological problems have been sent to Iraq or kept in combat, even when superiors have been aware of signs of mental illness. Reporting numerous cases in which the military failed to follow its own regulations in scr
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said a nurse practioner in Austin. Patients get lesions that never heal."Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little
El ya lejano año de 1970, sería de importancia especial en mi vida puesto que, portando credenciales del Tec de Monterrey, debutaba en el mundo financiero de México.
The Bad Guys are very afraid and this is what they are going to do about it,... and how much do you know about this? Internet - Censorship - Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (COPE)
Another CIA officer—the agency's deputy inspector general, who had been probing criminal mistreatment by the CIA and its contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan—was startled to hear what she considered an outright lie in testimony
A syndicated hip-hop disc jockey arrested after making on-air racial and sexual rants about a rival radio personality's wife and young child has been released on bail. DJ Star was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after a broadcast
The last time the US military posted troops on the border near this tiny cluster of farms and ranches, an 18-year-old goat herder was shot to death. May 20, 1997, the day a Marine corporal shot and killed him,
In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists
The road to delivering this critical antiterrorism tool has taken detours to locations, companies and groups often linked to Representative Harold Rogers (R-KY) who is the powerful subcommittee chairman that controls the Homeland Security budget.
Vice President Dick Cheney made handwritten notations on a July 2003 newspaper column that indicate he was focused on a critic of the administration's Iraq policy, according to a court filing in the C.I.A. leak case.
Conservative activists are drawing up litmus tests for McCain, as they hope to extract concessions on the road to the primaries. (A NASCAR appearance? I smell a John McCain / Jeb Bush ticket,... "4 more wars, 4 more wars, 4 more wars")