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[And we need a new design because?] The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in two decades.
There's a potentially life-saving technique performed on most newborns on the second or third day of their life. If you were born after 1970, chances are it was done to you. It's called newborn screening. Doctors take a drop of blood from the
Astronomers have uncovered a frenzy of star forming activity in the dusty cores of two merging galaxies 250 million light-years away. With the aid of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the researchers spied more than 200 mammoth star clusters in Arp
Wall Street resumed its retreat with another session of steep losses Tuesday as declines in oil and gold prices did little to calm anxiety over inflation. The selloff erased the Dow Jones industrial average's gains so far in 2006.
Big pension funds in the US, Europe and Australia are suing dozens of companies over the timing of stock options grants to their top executives, an attorney for a firm that is filing the suits said. The pension funds, which hold shares in the compani
[Normally referred to as inflation.] US producer prices excluding energy and food rose faster than expected last month and high gasoline prices boosted otherwise tepid retail sales, the government said in reports that signal inflationary pressures.
Bolstered by job and consumer spending growth, U.S. state revenues are forecast to rise 5.1% in fiscal 2007, supporting bigger spending demands and healthy surpluses.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was heckled, John Kerry got multiple standing ovations and the Democratic rift over the way forward in Iraq was on full display at a conference of liberal activists. Shouts of "troops out" and "bring them home
Iraq has formally notified the U.N. Security Council that it wants the U.S.-led multinational force to remain in place for now as Iraqi troops and police are not yet ready to ensure security on their own. "While great achievements have been g
The world increasingly fears Iran's suspected pursuit of a nuclear bomb but believes the US military in Iraq remains a greater danger to Middle East stability. Widespread concern over US detainee treatment in Iraq and places such as Guantanamo, i
Cunning US teenagers have turned a disruptive noise technology to their advantage by adapting it to a cell phone ring tone that adults can't hear. Invented a sound generator that emits an annoying sound only young people can hear, and now markets
The pictures out of Baghdad Tuesday morning spoke volumes. George W. Bush is beaming, the new Iraqi leader at his side, after pulling off a secret flight to the country that is the make-or-break project of his presidency.
The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said.
In the wake of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, 48% believe the US probably or definitely will win the war, up from 39% in April. It also found that 47% believe things are going well in Iraq, up from 38% in March.
Ontario announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build and refurbish nuclear power plants as it struggles to keep pace with rising demand for electricity. Suggested half Ontario's electricity be produced by nuclear reactors within 20 years. At pr
Iraq's prime minister set in motion the biggest security crackdown in Baghdad with 75,000 Iraqi and US troops to deploy. Plans for an extended curfew and a weapons ban, would show "no mercy" to terrorists six days after al-Zarqawi was k
We just posted a new interview with Aaron, which he did with the Conscious Media Network before leaving for Europe.
Amazing video - scroll down half a page to click on video once at the site.
"Bilbray sworn in to replace Rep. Cunningham," says the headline accompanying a story written by AP's Erica Warner and picked up widely. The story gives no indication that the ceremony was unofficial, and that the questionable results o
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian bord
The nation’s biggest telephone companies have apparently turned over masses of personal records to the feds, allowing Uncle Sam to build up a database of the phone numbers of incoming and outgoing calls of Americans.
Bliss fears that if the governor vetoes the budget, the bill would be an unintended victim. Bennett, however, said that the monument proposal would get approval this session as a separate bill if the budget gets rejected.
White House aide Karl Rove will not be charged over the leak of a CIA officer's identity, his lawyer says. Robert Luskin said he had heard the news from the special prosecutor in the case, Patrick Fitzgerald, on Monday.
Mark Parkinson got his start in Republican politics at age 19, as precinct committeeman. He served 6 years as a Republican state legislator, eventually becoming state Republican chairman. But 2 weeks, ago, Parkinson announced he was running for
US spending in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to help push global military expenditure fruther up in 2006 after hitting $1/2 trillion a year earlier, a research body said on Monday. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in its
Precious metals plummeted on Tuesday on stronger US dollar and weak oil prices, with gold sinking to a 2 month low and silver tumbling more the 5 percent. (Right now, gold is at $564.20 and silver is at $9.84)
The national minimum wage of $5.15 is now at its lowest level in 50 years when adjusted for inflation, according to a news analysis from the Center for Economic and Policy released by Rep. George Miller (D-CA) and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) t
A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan questioned a lawyer for the federal government yesterday as to whether the CIA had a legitimate national security interest in refusing to confirm or deny the existence of documents authorizing it to detain
A provincial council in southern Iraq has suspended all cooperation with the British military after overnight clashes between troops and Shiite militiamen left five Iraqis dead.
U.S. officials and French and British diplomats have sought to obscure the failure to get the agreement of Russia and China to a hard-line UN Security Council resolution making Iranian compliance mandatory if it refused to suspend its uranium enrichm
