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Up to 80 Taliban rebels and at least 16 civilians were killed during a coalition air and ground attack on a village in southern Afghanistan. Bloodied men, women and children who streamed into a nearby hospital using vehicles that withstood the bombin
President Bush said he was concerned about the erosion of democracy in Venezuela and Bolivia. [I know exactly how those people feel.]
Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars. That 2.6%increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates.
Iraq's new prime minister promised to use "maximum force" if necessary to end the brutal insurgent and sectarian violence wracking the country. Although he focused on the need to end bloodshed, Nouri al-Maliki also had to address unfini
A government lab is testing a "very promising" new machine that would allow airline passengers to keep their shoes on while going through security checkpoints, the nation's aviation security chief said.
The US, eager to find new sources of oil at the time when petroleum prices are skyrocketing, is increasingly giving up its strategy of promoting democracy. Bush has recently made contradictory moves towards key foreign oil producers, sowing confusion
Conservatives tolerated the No Child Left Behind Act, an extensive intrusion into state and local education, and the budget-busting Medicare prescription drug benefit. They tolerated the greatest increase in spending since Lyndon B. Johnson's Gre
"Was there intense pressure? You bet. You bet there was intense pressure" to extract more from the interrogations, Sanchez said -- some of it self-imposed and some of it emanating from "different levels of the chain of command."
The detention cells were too closely monitored and controlled for inmates to organise a revolt so well. Defence lawyers who regularly visit clients in the base, said they suspected the official accounts were "rubbish".
[Where does this guy get his dope?] Iran is only months away from joining the club of nations that can make a nuclear weapon, Israel's prime minister said. "The technological threshold is very close," Ehud Olmert said.
After 12 years of research and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century. It's application to CAT vehicles give them significant economical and environmental advant
With high gas prices making alternative fuels increasingly attractive, no alternative fuel has received as much attention as ethanol. Some hail the fuel, which can be derived from plants including corn, wheat, barley and sugarcane, as a savior of Ame
Attorney General Gonzales raised the possibility that NY Times journalists could be prosecuted for publishing classified information about the NSA's surveillance of terrorist-related calls between the US and abroad.
Backers of the Voter Reward Initiative, which would give one randomly drawn voter a $1 million lottery prize after each statewide election, say they have gathered enough signatures to place the unusual measure on the November ballot.
In most cities and states, vandalism, shoplifting, and loitering are misdemeanors - possibly involving community service, not jail time. But those who commit such low-level crimes in New York State may soon be required to give DNA samples to authorit
f Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have
For young women with a world of choices, even that monthly curse, the menstrual period, is optional. Thanks to birth control pills a growing number of women are taking the pill all the time. Been great for her marriage, preventing monthly crankiness
File this under the old adage, "Politics makes strange bedfellows." The current net neutrality debate in the U.S. Congress has the Christian Coalition of America allied with rock stars Moby and R.E.M.
The committee recently concluded hearings to address issues like net neutrality, VoIP, retransmission consent, rural broadband access. The result a 132-page draft bill that is a “sweeping set of policy reforms all wrapped up in one giant package.”
It sounds nuts, but a scientist says his team has made light go backward. Previous work has slowed light to a crawl. Now a pulse of light is given a negative speed and—as if just to make your head spin—the researcher says the experiment made light ap
A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House at Warm Springs.
The Senate voted Thursday to make English the national language of the United States. Sort of. Moments after the 63-34 vote, it decided to call the mother tongue a "common and unifying language." Two dozen senators voted for both
Guatemala's government said for the first time it wanted to investigate the disappearances of some 45,000 civilians during a bloody civil war and hoped to prosecute those responsible. Supposed communist sympathizers who were systematically detain
Despite talk of an energy crisis and the need for independence from foreign oil, Congress seems to be in no mood to open more of the country's coastal waters to energy development. Despite arguments that new supplies are needed to lower energy co
North Korea may be preparing to launch a long-range ballistic missile that could reach parts of the United States, Japanese media reports said, but Japan's government said it did not believe a launch was imminent.
An official military investigation into allegations that American marines killed innocent Iraqis last November has uncovered evidence that the number of dead civilians is higher than the 15 originally reported
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement efforts to secure corporate information about clients and suppliers have reached such levels that some companies have had to create special units that do nothing but deal with these deman
The Motion Pictures Association of America has censored a poster advertising a film called "The Road to Guantanamo." The makers of "Baghdad ER" said the secretary of the army, had demanded last-minute changes to the film.
American defence officials have secretly requested a "prodigious quantity" of ammunition from Russia to supply the Afghan army in case a Democrat president takes over in Washington and pulls out US troops.
The federal government also has a $2.3 trillion unfunded liability for retiree medical and disability benefits for civil and military personnel. Medicare's unfunded liability of $33.4 trillion and Social Security's $4.6 trillion shortfall, t
