In one corner is a group of 8,000 or so adherents of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an offshoot of the Mormon Church that had long paid the property taxes of its members, sometimes even rolling a wheelbarrow through m
Iran’s ambassador to the UN’s nuclear watchdog said here Friday that Tehran was ready for “full” cooperation with that agency and was prepared to answer all questions about its nuclear program, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Dozens of gasoline stations from Virginia to Massachusetts ran short of fuel on Friday as suppliers struggled with a transition to a new anti-smog gasoline blend using corn-based ethanol as an additive, marketers said.
To critics of the administration's immigration policies, the Department of
Homeland Security sent out a strong message this week: Current laws can discourage illegal immigrants and those who hire them.
t's the third time a Kurdish satellite station has tried to beam news into Turkey, whose laws restrict Kurdish programming within the country. The first two were shut down. Now the Turkish government is lobbying Denmark to rein in Roj, accusing t
Russia must stop any arms deals with Iran and other nations must bar the sale of dual-use technologies to Tehran to put pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear program. Planned sale to Iran of Tor tactical surface-to-air missiles. Moscow and Tehran s
Diebold, the notorious voting-machine company, paid some $275,000 to Abramoff’s firm, Greenberg Traurig, with the apparent aim of keeping legislation requiring paper trails in the voting process from getting into the Help America Vote Act.
The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 index turned negative on Friday as crude oil prices rose above $75 a barrel, increasing worries about higher energy costs for companies and consumers.
The budget next year for National Intelligence Director John D. Negroponte's office and the several agencies attached to it may be near $1 billion or more. When it served the former CIA director it was less than $200 million a year.
A chorus of complaints against the Bush administration erupted Thursday after the Pentagon released a previously secret list of the names and nationalities of 558 people held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay.
Britain said its citizen
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo faced growing pressure with militants in the oil-producing south killing 2 people in a car bomb attack and thousands of opposition supporters rallying against him in the capital.
A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said.
In this era of easy ad skipping with
TiVo-like video recorders, could television viewers one day be forced to watch commercials with a system that prevents channel switching?
World oil prices have reached new peaks, above 74.0 dollars in London and 72.0 dollars in New York owing to low stocks of gasoline in the United States and tensions over
Iran's nuclear programme. Struck a record high of 74.22 dollars per barrel
Adult entertainment giant Vivid Entertainment Group said it will start next month selling downloadable movies that viewers can burn to DVD and watch on their TVs.
A media rights group has identified a third dissident that the Chinese government arrested based on information seemingly supplied by a Yahoo subsidiary. The verdict notes that Jiang's e-mail account, provided to Chinese authorities by Yahoo Hold
Computer shipments rose at a faster-than-expected 13 percent worldwide in the first quarter, and the No. 1 PC maker, Dell Inc., lost ground to rivals. Worldwide growth continued to outpace gains in the United States, where IDC reported a 5.3 percent
Nepal's royal government imposed an 11-hour curfew in the capital, as another protester wounded a day earlier at a rally against King Gyanendra's rule died making the number of demonstrators killed by security forces to 14. Those who violate
"President Hu, your days are numbered.
President Bush, make him stop persecuting Falun Gong," the woman yelled. U.S. officials later identified her as Wang Wenyi, 47, a reporter with The Epoch Times, an English-language publication strongl
The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration will publish a statement on Friday criticizing state measures to legalize the medical use of marijuana, calling them attempts to bypass scientific review.
The U.S.
Department of Justice will push for new legislation that requires all commercial Web sites to label every page that includes adult material in an effort to protect Web surfers from pornography, the agency announced.
As
Iran faces international pressure over developing the raw material for nuclear weapons, Brazil is quietly preparing to open its own uranium-enrichment center, capable of producing exactly the same fuel. Brazil — like Iran — has signed the Nuclear
US intelligence chief John Negroponte said
Iran's resumption of uranium enrichment is "troublesome" but the country is still years away from having enough fissile material to make a nuclear weapon.
President Bush’s job approval rating plunged to a new low of 33%. Overall, 57% of Americans disapprove of the job Bush is doing, and the most frequently mentioned reason is Iraq (48%). The other reasons include "doing a bad job" (24%), disa
More than 428 private contractors have been killed to date in Iraq, and US taxpayers are footing almost the entire compensation bill to their families. "This is a precedent-setting case. Just like with tobacco litigation or gun litigation, once
Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Fines for people with TV satellite dishes rise from £
The U.S. Air Force engaged in a pattern of ignoring requests for the release of classified documents dating to the Vietnam War, establishing a response rate that is worse than the CIA's, a federal judge has ruled.
"The U.S. intelligence community comprises almost 100,000 patriotic, talented and hardworking Americans in 16 federal departments and agencies. The country should know what they are doing, why they are doing it, and how well they are doing it. P