An attorney who specializes in homeowners-association law was chastised by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge for trying to foreclose on the home of a woman who owed back dues of less than $400 and an additional $1,000 in accumulated late fees an
In the latest White House personnel changes, the editor of a conservative magazine will replace Claude Allen, the domestic policy adviser who left in February amid a shoplifting investigation.
The White House announced the appointment Wednesd
President Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded that the FBI surrender documents it seized and remove agents involved in the weekend raid of Rep. William Jefferson's office, under what lawmakers of both parties said were unconstitutional circumstances.
In a move that is raising hackles in Moscow, the US is proposing to install an anti-missle defence system in central Europe to counter any future attack from a nuclear-armed Iran. The plan, for which the Pentagon has requested $56m of exploratory fu
The video about Army Ranger Jesse Macbeth produced by Pepperspray Productions has been removed from the web site. When accessing the site at www.peacefilms.org , a picture of a big blue globe of the earth appears. When doing a google under video.go
House Speaker Dennis Hastert(R-ill) told President Bush yesterday that he is concerned the FBI's raid on Rep. William Jefferson's (D-LA) congressional office over the weekend was a direct violation of the Constituion. (Really, and what about
Iran has followed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent letter to President Bush with explicit requests for direct talks on its nuclear program, according to US officials, Iranian analysts and foreign diplomats.
A Defense Department investigation of Pentagon-financed propaganda efforts in Iraq warns that paying Iraqi journalists to produce postive stories could damage American credibilty and calls for an end to military payments. (You think so)
Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which is capable of reaching Israel and US targets in the region, Israel Radio reported.
Buoyed by the box-office success of "The Da Vinci Code," Columbia Pictures is planning to turn author Dan Brown's first best-selling religious thriller, "Angels & Demons," into a movie, the studio said on Tuesday.
Using a Nike+iPod Sports Kit, expected to retail for about $29, consumers will be able to access distance, time, pace and calories burned on the screen of a nano version of the iPod via a sensor inside the shoes that communicates with the digital mus
A few months after reports indicated that Iraqi university professors and academics were fleeing the country because of violence and kidnappings, now the middle class in Iraq also wants to leave. More middle class Iraqis seem to be "doing everyt
The US Senate has given the Bush administration an extended blank check on domestic electronic phone surveillance. At no point did senators make any serious suggestion about imposing any new legal or congressional oversight procedures on the vastly e
The National Security Agency developed a pilot program in the late 1990s that would have enabled it to gather and analyze huge amounts of communications data without running afoul of privacy laws. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, it shelved the projec
She's a lawyer - the former head of the Hong Kong Bar who believes deeply that Hong Kong will not get full democracy unless it fights harder. She's also got glam: more than six feet tall in a small-body society, charisma, and a top-shelf fash
Proponents say it gives options to low-income kids who might otherwise be stuck in failing schools, and that the competition for students is good for all Milwaukee's schools, both public and private. Critics, meanwhile, cite the money the program
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveilla
By the time officials in Baghdad intervened 9 months later, the corruption in Basra had gotten so bad that the 135-member internal affairs unit, set up to police the police, was operating as a ring of extortionists, kidnappers and killers.
[Your corrupt government at work.] Senior executives at Fannie Mae manipulated accounting to collect millions in "maximum, undeserved bonuses" and deceive investors. The government-sponsored mortgage company was fined $400 million.
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High school students are going to be held accountable for what they post on blogs and on social-networking Web sites. Require all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropri
[This is amazing .. he is still alive, much less driving.] Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be brok
Boeing Co. unveiled a line of small, lightweight bombs that the US Air Force will use in urban combat situations like the war in Iraq. The small-diameter bombs weigh 250 pounds and can be used by all Air Force bombers. Planes can carry about four tim
[Using your stolen tax dollars.] The Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security spend millions annually to buy commercial databases that track Americans' finances, phone numbers, and biographical information, according to the GAO
The US alleges [Libby] learned about Plame from one of the CIA officials when he went after dirt on her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Wilson shattered a pillar of President Bush's rationale for war - that Iraq was seeking to build a nuclear
Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the "termination shock," sometime within the next year. Comes a year after Voyager 1's crossing, comes earlier than expected and suggests the edge of the shock
Leaders of both parties on Capitol Hill accused the FBI of overstepping constitutional boundaries designed to protect Congress when it raided a Democratic lawmaker's office over the weekend. [Crooks are above the laws they pass.]
U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said that soaring energy prices could damage economic growth but there was little the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could do to help bring them down.
Backers of a comprehensive immigration overhaul said they were optimistic about Senate passage later this week after lawmakers rejected a move to expand a compromise bill's provision giving illegal immigrants a chance for citizenship.