The old method of processing photographs forced camera partnerships to raise the speed that triggers a ticket so that the processing system wouldn't be overburdened. Each location could handle about 800 tickets/day. Boost that to 6000 tickets/day
It has recently been reported that Rep Jerry Lewis, a California Republican who heads the House Appropriations Committee, is under federal investigation for possibly sterring federal monies to well-connected corporations.
Web media is the dominant at-work media and No. 2 in the home. Newspaper use peaked in the morning; that print media was consumed by 17 percent of the subjects between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. When this media was combined with Web consumption, the potentia
In one of the lesser-known perks of power on Capitol Hill, lawmakers are using taxpayer-funded databases to cultivate constituents more attentively than ever. Chabot -- a six-term legislator from Cincinnati who finds himself imperiled this year after
The full extent of European collusion with the CIA during operations to abduct terrorism suspects and fly them to countries where they may be tortured is laid bare today by the continent's most authoritative human rights body.
Several states h
The Iraqi Islamic Party, the main Sunni Arab political party, accused American forces of murdering more than two dozen Iraqis in a series of incidents across the country in May.
"The US forces have violated human rights many times across Iraq
An Iraqi doctor who was in Haditha during a deadly US raid last year says there are many more stories like that in Haditha that are yet untold. "There are many, many, many cases like Haditha that are still undercover and need to be highlighted i
US officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and 3 recent domestic incidents in the US are evidence the US will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack. They'd be surprised if it didn't come by the end of the year
Ben Bernanke is getting a taste of just how hard it is to turn theory into practice. The former Princeton University economist, who wants clarity the theme of his Fed chairmanship, is discovering that his words can send the markets careening.
City officials voted to evict two residents whose refusal to give up their riverfront houses helped lead to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that governments may seize property for private development projects.
The US House of Representatives approved $32 billion for domestic security programs next year as some lawmakers seethed over their inability to stop funding cuts this year for big cities seen as high-risk targets for terrorist attacks.
The Pentagon unveiled its most comprehensive guidance to date for medical professionals in dealing with detainees, but rights activists denounced it for allowing broad use of prisoners' health data to guide interrogations.
Senator agreed to defer his plans to subpoena telephone executives after Vice President Dick Cheney said they would be precluded on national security grounds from answering questions about the reported disclosure of call records.
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.
Personal data on about 2.2 million active-duty military, Guard and Reserve personnel _ not just 50,000 as initially believed _ were among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month.
Oil prices of $100 a barrel or more are a possibility that would seriously threaten airlines, said a International Air Transport Assoc. chief economist. "It is fear that takes fuel prices up. If there is a disaster in the Middle East and a real
Tens of millions of low-income Americans will soon have to show their birth certificates or U.S. passports if they want to obtain health care through their state Medicaid programs. Federal law says only citizens, people granted asylum and legal immig
Equity markets faced heavy losses across Europe and Asia, mirroring an overnight Wall Street slump, after the US Federal Reserve took a hard line on inflation, renewing prospects for interest rates to rise.
Stock markets in London, Paris and Frankfu
"This monument legislation doesn't belong on the budget bill," Bliss said. "There is no appropriation required. It will be built with donations. Second, the governor probably is going to veto the budget bill. So, this is how you ki
Within two hours of an announcement that the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) was calling for a Justice Department investigation of New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley’s plan to confiscate guns again if a major storm hits the city this ye
"We're seeing the atmosphere as we've never seen it before," said a CloudSat investigator. "We're no longer looking at clouds like images on a flat piece of paper, but instead we're peering into the clouds and seeing t
Dust clouds blowing across the Atlantic Ocean carry hidden pathogens that might reach the United States.
While the dust itself can cause respiratory stress, scientists have now confirmed that clouds originating in Africa carry microbial life that
A flurry of new images from ground and space telescopes is refining astronomers' ideas about the Milky Way's galactic neighbor Andromeda.
The images were taken with NASA's Spitzer and Chandra Space Telescopes and at the Gemini North Ob
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, a Democratic candidate for governor, is under fire for accepting nearly $20,000 in campaign contributions that originated with a utility he is investigating over a disastrous reservoir collapse.
Nigeria's vice president sought as much as $500,000 and a stake in a technology venture in his country, Rep. William Jefferson told an FBI informant, according to court documents filed in a bribery probe of the congressman.
Jefferson is allege
Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have made it a crime for illegal immigrants to be in the state. It was the first-term governor's 115th veto, a record for Arizona. The GOP-dominated Legislature has yet to override any of the Democra
President George Bush, President Vicente Fox of Mexico, and Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada unveiled a blueprint for a safer and more prosperous North America when they announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) on
Mexico's Laws, Real Estate, Banking and Governmental Agencies are all being restructured to allow for a North American Union - The rhetoric will start immediately after the 2006 elections.
[This is a great story about the free market, and a clever businessman.] The most popular feature of the self-proclaimed World's Largest Laundromat is not the massive machines that wash eight loads at a time. It is the aviary.
In a new jab at the Bush administration over its use of executive power, the Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding that the Justice Department explain the agency's investigations of journalists who publish classified information.