Hundreds of US soldiers wounded in Iraq have been hounded by bill collectors for military debts after coming home. The Army demanded a soldier repay a $2,700 enlistment bonus because he served 2 years of a 3 year tour—it was a mortar blast in Iraq th
Giza plateau was scanned with ground penetrating radar earlier this year. A joint Polish-Egyptian-American-Belgian expedition conducted the scan of the ground beneath the world's most famous pyramids from February 11 through 13, 2006.
Texas Director of Elections Ann McGeehan sent a letter to all state Election Officials authorizing them to create "emergency paper ballots" in light of statewide failures by Election System & Software, Inc. (ES&S) to provide ballots in time
Johnson said last summer, an Illinois law passed that requires children in kindergarten, second- and sixth-grade to have a dental examination performed by a dentist, or to present proof to their school that one is scheduled in the next 60 days.
Everywhere we look these days, we are either being watched, taxed or some bureaucrat is placing another bit of information in our government files. And now with the American Community Survey, the federal bureaucracy is thrusting its expansive tentacl
Qatifq, Saudi Arabia - The conflict in Iraq has begun to spill over onto this hardscrabble, sunburned swath of coast, breathing new life into the ancient rivalry between the country's powerful Sunni Muslim majority and the long-oppressed Shiite m
Many travelers to China and Taiwan rely on talking electronic devices equipped with English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries that actually do the speaking.
The Senate voted Wednesday to divert some of the money President Bush requested for the war in Iraq to instead increase security on the nation's borders and give the Coast Guard new boats and helicopters.
Senators also ignored a White House ve
A massive language research database responsible for bringing words such as "podcast" and "celebutante" to the pages of the Oxford dictionaries has officially hit a total of 1 billion words, researchers said Wednesday.
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[After the election, suckers!] As the top U.S. commander in Iraq suggested today that the US would soon reduce the number of troops in Iraq, Pentagon planners said they hoped to pull more than 30,000 troops out by the end of the year, and possibly by
As many have learned the hard way, it is more important to watch what the Bush administration does rather than believe what it says. There are troubling signs that the Bush administration wants to make the U.S. presence permanent in Iraq. According
The U.S. ambassador here on Monday urged war-weary Americans to dig in for the long haul: a years-long effort to transform Iraq and the surrounding region, now one of the world's major trouble spots.
"We must perhaps reluctantly accept th
The nation's disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.
Crippled by years of poor leadership and inadequ
The CIA has conducted more than 1,000 clandestine flights in Europe since 2001, and some of them secretly took away terror suspects to countries where they could face torture, European Union lawmakers said.
The government improperly sealed hundreds of previously public CIA, Pentagon and other records by reclassifying them as secret on questionable grounds, an internal review said.
The scandal surrounding disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been a Washington obsession for months, but Republican lawmakers who returned from a two-week recess this week said they felt free to pass a relatively tepid ethics bill because their const
The U.S. military said it has issued new orders to private contractors in Iraq to crack down on violations of human trafficking laws involving laborers brought in from around the world to work on American bases and other sites. An inspection complete
President Bush and a group of senators reached general agreement on an immigration bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for many illegal aliens. But left out of the closed-door White House meeting were senators who oppose a path to citizenship
You may not have heard of the American Community Survey, but you will. The national census, which historically is taken every ten years, has expanded to quench the federal bureaucracy’s ever-growing thirst to govern every aspect of American life
A federal appeals court overturned the pot-growing conviction of the self-proclaimed "Guru of Ganja," a marijuana advocate who has written books on how to grow pot and avoid getting caught.
Together they met US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and senior US military staff. Then they held a 50-minute meeting at Mr Khalizad's residence in the highly fortified Green Zone with Iraq's new Prime Minister-designate, Nouri Maliki.
Seagate Technology LLC is beefing up the capacity of its hard disk drives to a whopping 750 gigabytes, offering consumers of digital media more storage for their computers than ever before. [Price drop on all the rest.]
"The Americans should know that if they assault Iran their interests will be harmed anywhere in the world that is possible. The Iranian nation will respond to any blow with double the intensity," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was qu