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Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter granted Democrats a hearing to question White House aide and judicial nominee Brett Kavanaugh on his role in the administration's secret wiretapping program, its torture policy and any relationship with
Over 1,000 riot police firing tear gas flooded into a town at the edge of Mexico City to hunt for agents taken hostage in a riot sparked by flower traders that left at least one dead.
A former Middle East specialist of the Central Intelligence Agency has condemned what he called an organised campaign of manipulation by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq war.
[Jim Rummy?] Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled naked male corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel. The rum had a "special taste" so they
In January 2006 Stephen Colbert targeted the AP and they decided it would be fun to let him speak at the Whitehouse Journalist Dinner with the President. This story gives you the background.
Lawmakers approved a new Israeli government that pledges to draw the nation's border and withdraw from large parts of the West Bank within 4 years. Parliament voted confidence in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition government by a 65-49
Vice President Dick Cheney accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as "tools of intimidation or blackmail." It was a hard slap at Vladimir Putin as the US seeks Russia's cooperatio
Several Counties 'Locking Down' Machines as Company Promises Last Minute Software Fix Just Before Upcoming Primary Election
Bush's veto threat emboldened conservatives such as Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn. They undertook—and mostly lost—battles against home-state projects inserted by senior senators such as Cochran, Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Daniel Inouye, D-Haw
[Supply side works!] Oil prices sank more than $2 a barrel for the second straight day, falling below $70 as traders focused on government data that show gasoline supplies grew last week, reversing 2 months of declines.
The Social Security Administration has found a place to cut corners: several catagories of disability-benefit recipients who the agency said can wait 2 more years to start collecting, no matter how much hardship the move might cause.
Why is the state even involved in toursim? Here's the story of Lance Dutson, and the story of how the State of Maine Toursim Bureau is attacking him for his criticism of how the state is spending money on luring tourists here.
If you can walk a quarter mile, odds are you have at least six more years of life left in you. And the faster you can do it, the longer you might live.
China looks forward to co-operating with the United States in the space field, and expects personal exchanges between the two sides with become "normal", a senior aerospace excecutive said yesterday in Bejing.
Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, had hoped his criticism of President Bush’s domestic wiretapping programme would be like the fight his colleague, John McCain, waged to prohibit the torture of detainees: a moment when the Re
"At one point early in this Bush administration, a former official tells me, Cheney wanted to chair meetings of the National Security Council "principals"— the secretaries of state and defense, the C.I.A. director, and so on—in Bush’s
By a vote of 217 to 213, the House agreed to require lobbyists to file quarterly instead of semiannual reports, to include in those reports donations they give to federal candidates and political action committees, and to make public gifts that they
How long is a day on Saturn? According to a new study, it's 10 hours, 47 minutes and 6 seconds—give or take 40 seconds. This is based on measurements of a mysterious magnetic field signal emanating from the planet.
Tight petroleum supplies amid soaring demand could drive crude oil prices above $100 a barrel by this winter, energy experts warned yesterday. That could translate into gas prices of more than $5 a gallon at the pump and spike home heating oil an
When the US State Department issued its annual Country Reports on Terrorism, it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and groups it considers foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hizbullah. Conspiciously absent
[We call them "Freedom Fighters" now!] Earlier today at the White House Press Briefing, Scott McClellan, the outgoing press secretary, denied reports that the U.S. is employing terrorist groups for special operations in Iran.
King Tutankhamun's rediscovered penis could make the pharaoh stand out in the shrunken world of male mummies, according to a close look into old pictures of the 3,300-year-old mummified king. The formerly missing sex organ has been just anothe
Mexican President Vicente Fox refused to sign a drug decriminalization bill, hours after U.S. officials warned the plan could encourage "drug tourism." Fox sent the measure back to Congress for changes, but his office did not mention the U.
U.S. mass transit systems should remain alert against possible terror attacks, the Homeland Security Department said in a new warning that highlighted suspicious activity at unnamed European subway stations last fall. Homeland Security spokesman R
The White House said the list the Secret Service has been ordered to release concerning convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with the Bush administration will be incomplete. But spokesman Scott McClellan declined to say what is wrong wi
A technology executive pleaded guilty Wednesday to paying more than $400,000 in bribes to a congressman in charges stemming from an investigation of Rep. William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat.
There is something perversely satisfying about soaking in a tub of beer. First theres is the yeasty aroma of malt and hops, followed by a warm sticky sensation as the brown liquid envelope your body.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ''very blatant encroachment" on congressional authority, said he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush's assertion that he has the power to by
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will start selling build-your-own-computer components in more than one-third of its U.S. discount stores this month as it looks for ways to tempt shoppers to buy more than just low-margin food.
The Senate neared completion of an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Iraq and to continue hurricane recovery efforts, ignoring White House objections that it was loaded with unnecessary projects [pork].
