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As the apparent victor in Mexico's presidential election switched back and forth Thursday morning, ballots were found in two garbage dumps, RAW STORY has learned. The news was accompanied by various wire reports showing that left wing candidate A
News reporting about disasters and public disorder in China could become a crime under a proposed bill which would ban the spread of information about catastrophes without official permission. Government officials say the legislation is aimed at s
The French government has been plunged into embarrassment by the revelation that its intelligence agents interrogated six French citizens inside the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
Money transfer agencies have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed, company officials said.
Monkeys recognize each other by comparing faces to an average stored in their brains, not by memorising what every individual looks like, scientists said. And that probably goes for people, too, explaining how faces can be recognised in a fraction
The state Ethics Commission has agreed to look into a complaint against Rhode Island's attorney general about campaign donations he accepted from a lawyer for DuPont Co. while he was negotiating to drop the company from a lawsuit.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, city council members and Louisiana authorities agreed on Wednesday to create a single plan to redevelop the ravaged, city, ending months of disputes that have hampered recovery from Hurricane Katrina. The agreement wa
Two senior Cuban officials charged that a report on the communist nation delivered to the Bush administration's National Security Council amounted to a blueprint for an Iraq-style regime change in the Caribbean. "We are facing a real thre
An Italian judge also raised to 26 the number of Americans -- most believed to be CIA agents -- who are suspected of carrying out the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric and his transfer from Milan to Egypt. But whereas there is zero chance of the
People who spread HIV can be held legally responsible even if they didn't know they had the deadly sexually transmitted disease, California's top court said in an unprecedented ruling.
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several
Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop. Opponents say a new system would make spelling even more confusing.
Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off. Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away Sunday
Arabeed and other Palestinian journalists say Hamas is trying to control news coverage. Intimidation tactics compelled some media outlets, such as al-Hurriya, to suspend news coverage. Frightened columnists put down their pens. Hazem Abu Shanab, a
"Thanks to the US government, two of Iran's main threats - Saddam Hussein, and the Taliban and Al Qaeda - have been removed from power," says Abbas Maleki, Iran's former deputy foreign minister, currently at the Belfer Center for Sc
As Henry Paulson gets ready to take the helm as US Treasury secretary, a single dollar is worth about 116 Japanese yen, 8 Chinese yuan, and 0.79 European euros. Amid predictions that its value could decline by 25% or more, where the US currency goes
For $46 any Chinese can now hop on a 15-car daily train in Beijing and be listening to wind chimes in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, 2 days later. 3 trains from cities around China will now surmount 16,000-foot mountain heights, traverse a world-record
When the space shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station, some of the loudest cheers will be overseas. That's because the shuttle is the only vehicle able to deliver key components of the station over the next 4 years. Its succ
Israeli forces sharply stepped up an offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza, fighting running battles with gunmen and killing 11 people in the worst violence since the cross-border operation began. Gunmen also killed a soldier in northern G
Felipe Calderon, a ruling party conservative, won a razor-thin victory on Thursday in Mexico's presidential election but his leftist rival vowed to contest the result in the courts and on the streets.
Reporting from Iraq has become one of journalism's most difficult and dangerous jobs. Foreign Policy spoike recently with Rod Nordland, who served Newsweek's Baghdad Bureau Chief for 2 years about the challenge of getting out of the Green Zo
Tony Payan concludes that the US has spent billions since 1969 fighting what he describes as a flawed campaign against drug smuggling. "The war on drugs hasn't paid off for many reasons, " Payan said. "Part of the failure has bee
Judge Radi Hamza Radi, head of the Iraqi Commission on Public Integrity set up in 2004, says corruption has "exploded" since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. Judge Radi blamed "the weakness of state institutions during
Microsoft is believed to be planning the launch of a new portable digital music and video player that will go head-to-head with Apple's ubiquitous iPod.
IN 2002, a bankrupt Bethlehem Steel stunned 100,000 workers with the news it would no longer back their pension. It was the biggest default in a brutal year during which companies dropped responsibility fo 157 pension plans onto the PBGC
Although these bond are not backed by the US Government, most believe the GSEs would never be allowed to fail. But Dan Denning reports below on how a US Treasury report has warned that this mistaken belief and the illiquid nature of property means
A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. The break-in
When the FBI office in New Haven, Conn., received an e-mail in February 2005 that looked like a terrorist threat, agents followed a familiar routine. They asked the service provider, a group of Connecticut public libraries, for the real name, street
A block of consumer advocates, mortgage companies and community groups are warning that plans to hand out up to $150,000 apiece in housing aid to Gulf Coast hurricane victims could open the door to fraud. The concern stems from nearly $7 billion i
The federal government will pay a Texas law school $1 million to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of sensitive data available to the press and public through freedom-of-information requests. Beginning this month, St. Mary's Univers
