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The way Sen. Conrad Burns' re-election campaign is going, the folksy 71-year-old Republican might rather take a turn on a bronco than try to explain his links with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff back in Washington.
A US state (Texas) is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet.
Under current Rhode Island law, convicted felons can't vote until they have completed parole and probation, a date 30 years away for Idarraga. He is speaking to support a state ballot initiative that would allow felons to vote after they leave pr
(Now if this was a Private School.......) A radio reporter attempting to interview the principal of a publicly funded school backed by radical groups that lay claim to the Southwestern U.S says he was chased down and tackled at the campus today, appa
Straight from the front lines in Iraq, 'The War Tapes' is the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves. Funnier, more revealing, and more gut wrenching than news reports
A parachute system equipped with a 1.5m (4.9ft)-span delta wing and two micro-turbojets which could propel a paratrooper 200km (110nm) from a drop point could be tested from third-quarter 2007.
Bernanke, who took the central bank's helm in February, will raise the benchmark rate by a quarter point at the June 28-29 meeting, Gramley (former Fed governor) said.
A message on The Pirate Bay's Web site acknowledges the raid, but the group has continually maintained its legality under Swedish law because no copyrighted material is actually stored on its servers.
There are plans to show off the new standard at the Computex trade show in Taipei next week.
The Dixie Chicks appear to be more popular than the president these days. President Bush's approval rating has plummeted, but the Chicks are on top of the pop and country charts with their first album since publicly criticizing Bush three years a
In fact, the softest markets in the country right now are in Miami, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix, said David Lereah, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors.
Did you know that many drugs are used legally in the US today for diseases and conditions they were never approved for? It's called off-label drug use, and it's a common practice that promotes the sale of prescription drugs and circumvents t
The investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of troops alleged killing of 24 Iraqi civilians, concludes some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately scrutinize reports that should have cau
"It's such a shock to all of us here," said Florence Joyal, who works the cash register in a general store in a Vermont village, whose Main Street leads straight into the Canadian province of Quebec. "Before, you didn't even sh
Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers. "We have talked to many people in Washington about using it...."
US soldiers have shot and killed a pregnant Iraqi woman and her cousin while they were driving to a maternity hospital north of Baghdad. Iraqi police said the 2 women were travelling to hospital when their vehicle came under fire from the Americans.
The Senate is set to consider legislation (H.R. 8) to repeal the tax, which has been law since 1916, next week. At the time it was first repealed by President Bush, the tax applied only to estates worth more than $1 million. The current plan is to gr
Excerpts from the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on government whistleblowers and reaction to the decision. "Employees who make public statements outside the course of performing their official duties retain some possibility of First Amendment p
A civil rights lawyer demanded authorities investigate a roundup of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in what he called a desert dragnet based on racial profiling.
[Makes the politicians look tough. Makes the perps kill their victims, since they face the same penalty, but don't leave a witness.] South Carolina passed bills that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for some repeat child molester
The FCC is poised to propose new media ownership rules that will allow media companies to own newspapers, television and radio stations in the same city. The proposed rule would dissolve a longstanding policy that prohibited corporations from owning
Connecticut librarians spoke about their fight to stop the FBI from gaining access to patrons' library records at a news conference organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, and in a subsequent interview with RAW STORY.
President Bush vowed to punish any US Marine guilty of shooting Iraqi civilians at Haditha but Iraqis, including the prime minister, complain that US troops have killed elsewhere with impunity. "There is a thorough investigation going on. If ...
A top Republican fund-raiser who is the leading figure in an Ohio political scandal pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money to President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign. "I am troubled by the initial news stories," Bush said in his
Chinese manufacturers have moved onto the global stage with unprecedented speed and efficiency. China is already the world's largest producer of aluminum, cement, copper, and steel. It dominates the low-end consumer market in everything from text
The cave's ecosystem probably dates back around 5 million years when the Mediterranean Sea covered parts of Israel. The cave was completely sealed off from the world, including from water and nutrients seeping through rock crevices above. Scienti
First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show.
With "innovation" such a hot buzzword these days, companies are scrambling to find the magic formula for creating inventive products and services. One method that's gaining converts -- and breeding skeptics -- is a 60-year-old theory kn
Reversing course, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid's office acknowledged he misstated the ethics rules governing his acceptance of free boxing tickets and has decided to avoid taking such gifts in the future.
Nearly three-quarters of Arizona residents surveyed in a new poll believe migrant workers should have a way to come and go from this country without breaking US law, and just 4% view illegal immigration from Mexico as a terrorist threat.
