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Wedding parties and other groups hoping to commemorate their special event with a photograph at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument or other popular landmarks on National Park Service land now have to pay for a permit.
The US military is aware of a rash of anti-gay killings in Iraq during the past 8 months and is taking steps to curtail sectarian violence against all Iraqis, including gays, according to a spokesperson for the US-led multinational forces in Iraq.
Known among activist groups as either Anna Davies or Anna Davidson, others know her as Grai Damiani. She focuses her efforts largely on "anarchist" groups. Activists say that she has tried to provoke conflict at various advocacy events and
A ghostly blue blob amid a swarm of red dots in a new cosmic image is the superhot intergalactic gas permeating the space within the most distant cluster of galaxies found to date. Located nearly 10 billion light-years away, Cluster XMMXCS 2215-1738
Although the glass most people are familiar with is quite clear, physicists' understanding of glassy materials, which exist as a state of matter between solid and liquid, isn't quite so. Physical Review Letters suggests the shift is continuou
Just how do Americans get their news and entertainment over the Web? And how does the Web stack up against TV, newspapers, and other media when it comes to media consumption? Those are questions that advertisers have long wrestled to answer, with mi
Rejecting an argument being made by some conservatives in his own party, President Bush said that the idea that the United States could force millions of illegal immigrants to return home "ain't gonna work."
Iran began a fresh phase of uranium enrichment this week just as world powers presented it with incentives to halt nuclear fuel work. Iran resumed feeding "UF6" uranium gas into its pilot 164-centrifuge cascade after a pause of several week
Senators voted Thursday to reject a Republican effort to abolish taxes on inherited estates during an election year with control of Congress at stake. GOP leaders had pushed senators to permanently eliminate the estate tax, which disappears in 201
States and local governments across the USA are preparing to cash in valuable public assets for one-time windfalls that could reap tens of billions of dollars. The deals would let governments collect billions of extra dollars without raising taxes bu
With the "death" of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may the light be shed on a man who was nothing but a two-bit thug, who wanted more to topple his own government in Jordan, and reluctantly joined Bin Laden to aid in his conquest of Jordan.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation is turning up evidence that is proving inconvenient for the Bush adminstration as it tries to maintain its shaky alliance with Pakistan. FBI agents responding to Indian leads are quietly investigating Paki
More details were emerging Wednesday about an alleged bomb plot in Ontario and about one of the suspects and his alleged plan to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper. As well, there were alos news suggestions about how the suspects
Standing on rubble left by the U.S. air raid that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqis in the village of Hibhib expressed disbelief on Thursday that the al Qaeda leader had been living among them.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, has been killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister said Thursday. Prime Minis
A House of Representatives subcommittee approved a bill that would give another $50 billion next year to President Bush for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House Appropriations defense subcommittee cleared a $427 billion bill to fund the Pentag
The Washington area has the wealthiest households and most educated work force of any metropolitan area in the United States, according to a report released on Thursday by a local business group.
Initial ticket sales for the Dixie Chicks' upcoming tour are far below expectations and several dates will likely be canceled or postoned. In contrast, the band's new album, "Taking the Long Way," sold 526,000 units in its first wee
Lawmakers from both parties said Wednesday the Bush administration should provide money and take responsibility for the data security breach involving nearly all active-duty military, Guard and Reserve members.
The International Monetary Fund urged the Bush administration to set a more ambitious goal of eliminating the federal budget deficit over the next five years and said tax increases may be needed to accomplish that objective.
Short of votes needed in the US Senate to permanently repeal inheritance taxes, key Republican and Democratic lawmakers said that they were seeking a compromise that would permanently exempt all but the wealthiest estates from the tax.
A massive crater in Antarctica may have been caused by a meteor that wiped out more than 90% of the species on Earth 250 million years ago. The 300-mile-wide crater lies hidden more than a mile beneath a sheet of ice and was discovered by scientists
The government wants Internet firms to store records about you so that it can have them if necessary for an investigation. Should you worry?
Former President George H.W. Bush waged a secret campaign over several months early this year to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush went so far as to recruit Rumsfeld's potential replacement, personally asking a retired f
Pentagon sources say some of the most incriminating evidence against Marines under investigation in the deaths of civilians at Haditha is a set of photographs taken by another group of Marines who came along afterward and helped clean up the scene.
The U.S. Air Force increased its bombing of Taliban and other insurgent targets in Afghanistan this spring, making about 750 airstrikes in May alone, Air Force officials said.
[At last a PDF link to the actual report.] Makes clear that the United States has woven a renditions 'spider web' outside the rule of law that includes, 'disappearances,' arbitrary detentions, illegal transfers, and torture or other i
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Entered By: Powell Gammill
Republicans and Democrats alike had cause to cheer primary results across eight states Tuesday, prelude to midterm elections with control of Congress at stake. Not so much President Bush, or his call for immigration legislation.
[This is getting embarrasing Arlen. Grow a pair.] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter publicly complained about the Bush administration's refusal to cooperate with his panel and sent a stinging letter to Vice President Dick Cheney a
