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A Somali woman who moved to the Netherlands, won a seat in the Dutch parliament and became one of Europe's best-known champions of immigrant and Muslim women's rights, would give up her seat and leave the country because she is being stripped
Public confidence in GOP governance has plunged to the lowest levels of the Bush presidency, with Americans saying by wide margins that they now trust Democrats more than Republicans to deal with Iraq, the economy, immigration and other issues, accor
More than a decade after US troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government say the US has returned, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles ag
The US Army Reserve, tapped heavily to provide soldiers for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is “degenerating into a ‘broken’ force” due to dysfunctional military policies, the Army Reserve’s chief Lt. Gen. James Helmly said in a Dec. 20 memo to Army Ch
Inquiries into allegations that CIA flights through Europe carried people to countries where they faced possible torture are encountering a stonewall by officials. It could be decades before the full truth about the allegations emerged.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said for the first time that officials are at odds over whether a new Army manual should endorse different interrogation techniques for enemy insurgents than are allowed for regular prisoners of war.
With a burst of activity that ended 16 months of inaction, the House ethics committee opened [limited] investigations of a Republican and a Democrat into bribery inquiries–including one lawmaker connected to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff
After 5 months of resistance, the Bush administration provided new information to Congress on the National Security Agency's eavesdropping, hoping to help the architect of the controversial operations secure a new job as CIA chief.
The city council has rejected a measure allowing unmarried couples with multiple children to live together, and the mayor said those who fall into that category could soon face eviction. Denied an occupancy permit after moving into a home in this St.
Giving money to farmers, traditionally a popular election-year idea, is growing less popular in this election year. The Senate wants to spend nearly $4 billion to help farmers cope with high fuel prices and damage from severe weather. House leaders o
Secret documents that allegedly detail the surveillance of AT&T phone lines under the Bush administration's domestic spying program can be used in a lawsuit against the telephone giant, but the records will remain sealed. U.S. District Judge V
The Senate endorsed a chance at citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants, but also voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border in increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation.
Recently, a number—one billion—in the New York Times stopped me in my tracks. "Reflecting Absence," the memorial to the dead in the attack on the World Trade Center, is projected to cost a billion dollars and rising.
But then the US Military offers a contract :) (We need to know if there is a net energy benefit after breaking the molecules - but still very cool) http://hytechapps.com/applications/H2O.htm
(Tucson's KVOA TV4 reported 10% machine failure rate,... nothing in the newspapers) More Disasters for Pennsylvania, This Time on ES&S Machines, Following Earlier Similar Disasters on Machines in Philly
President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a ruble-denominated oil and natural gas stock exchange should be set up in Russia.
More than a decade after US troops withdrew from Somalia following a distastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some US analysts of Africa policy say the US has returned to the African country
Angry voters were passing out the pink slips in Pennsylvania, where state lawmakers voted themselves a hugh pay raise in the dead of night last year. More than a dozen legislatives incumbents, including the state Senate's top 2 Republicans, lost
Following Freedom of Information Act lawsuits dating back to 2004, the Pentagon Tuesday released images recorded on the morning of 9/11 by 2 security cameras in the Pentagon parking lot. Five frames from 1 camera had previously been leaked in early
THE US is updating contingency plans for a non-nuclear strike to cripple Iran's atomic weapon program if international diplomacy fails. Strategists are understood to have presented 2 options for pinpoint strikes using B2 bombers flying directly f
President Bush insisted that the US does not listen in on domestic telephone conversations among ordinary Americans. But he declined to specifically discuss the government's alleged compiling of phone records, or whether it would amount to an inv
The DOJ says it secretly sought phone records and other documents of 3,501 people last year under a provision of the Patriot Act that does not require judicial oversight. They are being used to obtain phone records of reporters at ABC News and elsewh
A well-preserved mummy partly covered with tattoos from the pre-Colombian Moche civilization has been discovered in Peru. Unusually accompanied by weapons of war and the skeleton of a child with a noose around its neck, the mummy, a woman approximate
With the latest allegations that the White House and the National Security Agency have been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, backers of the program have routinely cited a legal concept known as "expect
Four ships from a British fleet used during the U.S. Revolutionary War have been found off Rhode Island, and one may be the vessel 18th century explorer Captain James Cook sailed on his epic voyage to Australia.
The White House, in an abrupt reversal, has agreed to let the full Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees review President Bush's domestic spying program, lawmakers said.
The war of words between Continental Airlines and Virgin America over Virgin’s bid to begin U.S. flights is reaching new heights this week, drawing members of both parties into debate over protectionism. Virgin requested regulatory permission to o
Republican members of the Pennsylvania delegation are irritated that they’re not getting what they view as their proper share of earmarked funding allotted to the Keystone State because of what several of them believe is the disproportionate influenc
Verizon Communications Inc. joined fellow phone company BellSouth in denying key points of a USA Today story that said the companies had provided records of millions of phone calls to the government. Verizon has not provided customer call data to the
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and conservative members of his panel have reached agreement on legislation that may determine the legality of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program, GOP sources say.
