The U.S. will take the fight against terrorism to every shore and outpost in pursuit of enemies like none before, not relenting until their defeat and showing the same resolve that won the Cold War, President Bush told West Point graduates.
More than 60 minors, some as young as 14, have been held as prisoners at the US detention facility for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a London-based human rights group claimed in a report published.
A new survey finds two-thirds of Americans would support a law banning cell phone use while driving. Fewer than half, however, wish to make them illegal in restaurants and movie theaters. The poll of 849 adults, of which 69% owned cell phones, was co
Telephone polling has long been a staple of political prognosticating and otherwise sampling the tastes and opinions of Americans. But there is a growing potential problem pollsters must confront: More than 7% of US residents rely entirely on cell p
Reports of a mysterious medical condition are cropping up across the country but doctors are divided on whether it is a real disease or all in their patients' heads. Called Morgellons Disease, patients who report having it describe sensations of
A worrying upsurge of Taliban-linked violence in southern Afghanistan is being fuelled by government corruption and lack of development, analysts say. An incident in which 34 civilians were killed nearly a week ago in a coalition strike in Kandahar p
The White House's new civil liberties board is just getting to work more than a year after it was ordered by Congress, dogged by criticism that it must act more quickly and forcefully to protect Americans' rights in the war against terrorism.
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 715th career home run on Sunday, overtaking baseball legend Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time home-run list.
The Fall of the Warrior King based on an article in The New York Times magazine. Lt. Col. Nathan Sassaman, an Army commander in Baghdad resigned following a scandal in which men under his command caused the drowning of an Iraqi civilian.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari of Iraq today endorsed the right of Iran to pursue the "technological and scientific capabilities" needed to create nuclear power for peaceful purposes. (I guess this is what is mean by spreading democracy a
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the five-year housing "boom is over," though prices won't fall nationally. "We're not about to go into a situation where prices will go down," Greenspan, 80, said in res
“La función de un buen gobierno no es enriquecer a la gente, sino protegerlos cuando se hacen ricos; y el que atenta más de ello, arremete contra el orden natural. Los gobiernos no pueden ni deben mantener a la gente.”
A man accused of operating one of the largest Ponzi schemes in US history was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday. The federal judge imposed the maximum sentence on James Lewis Jr. for running a $311 million scheme (Actually Social Security is th
With all the news about Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert being Jack Abramoff's biggest recipient of funds, I recall this article back in September in Vanity Fair about Sibel Emonds. Read it and towards the end, you will see that this isn'
KeepAndBearArms.com founder and former executive director Angel Shamaya is selling most of his personal firearm collection to help defray legal expenses that resulted from gun-related charges in Michigan. Although the court ordered the police to ret
What can we say about these awesome covers for the various editions of Warner Home Video's V For Vendetta coming on August 1st? One thing's for sure, them Wachowski brothers know what they are doing. As you can see, the studio will release
Washington played a key role in persuading the Attorney General that military action against Saddam Hussein in 2003 was lawful. Lord Goldsmith told Parliament that military action was justified on the basis of 3 existing resolutions, the last of whic
Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a US ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq, and he instructed his former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to "get all the facts out" r
Gunmen in Baghdad killed the coach of the Iraqi national tennis team and two players, reportedly for wearing Western-style tennis shorts, an Iraqi Olympic official said. Fundamentalists had been warning residents not to wear shorts.
Henry Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of US troops—even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths.
A former aide to Rep. William Jefferson was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for his role in a bribery scandal. Brett Pfeffer is cooperating in an ongoing probe and may be eligible for a sentence reduction afterward, a prosecutor said.
Time magazine must give I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby drafts of articles so the former White House aide can use them to defend himself against perjury and other charges in the CIA leak case, a federal judge ruled.
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House leaders conceded that FBI agents with a court-issued warrant can legally search a congressman's office, but they said they want procedures established after agents with a court warrant took over a lawmaker's office last week.
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Many secular Iraqis have been expressing their displeasure with the new Iraqi government that was sworn-in and introduced with much fanfare by politicians in Washington, Baghdad, and London. "All Iraqis know this government is totally irrelevant
Mexican President Vicente Fox's ruling party could be the big winner of an immigration overhaul passed in the US Senate as it tries to hold on to power in July elections. The bill would give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become Ame
Among the many measures and half-measures that are being proposed to solve the crisis of illegal immigration, there have been some real doozies: a 700-mile wall to keep people out (or in?), a temporary guest-worker program that may end up harming
A Zogby Interactive poll finds that US voters are more distrustful than ever of political and corporate leaders. Only 3% believe Congress is trustworthy; 7% think business leaders are; 24% say President Bush can be trusted; and 29% trust the courts.
Foreign minister Zebari said that Iraq does not want "any of our neighbors to have weapons of mass destruction." But"the right of the republic of Iran and the right of any other state to have scientific and technological abilities to r
After hearing assurances he will be independent of the Pentagon, the Senate easily confirmed Gen. Michael Hayden, a career Air Force man, to head the CIA.
Hayden, a four-star general, currently is the top deputy to National Intelligence Director J