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About $20 billion is lost by state governments every year to uncollected online sales tax, according to independent accounting research company Bay Street Group. As states become aware of this monumental shortfall, they are beginning to aggressively
Intent on seizing control of Congress, Democrats want to keep the focus on President Bush's missteps in Iraq. Yet the war is fracturing the party in a handful of House and Senate races. Senate primary fights in Connecticut and Washington state
Felipe Calderon won Mexico's presidential election not because of who he is, but because of who he isn't. After peacefully ushering in democracy only six years ago, many Mexicans were not ready to shake up the status quo and flip the country
Militiamen linked to Somalia's sharia courts faced off with a group vowing to fight Mogadishu's new Islamist rulers as residents feared another flare-up in fighting after a month of relative peace. And in another indication of the emerging
Britain marked the first anniversary of the London suicide bombings with flowers, candles and a 2-minute silence on Friday as the city's police chief said another attack now looked more likely. One year after four young British Islamists blew
Museum dioramas typically portray mammoths as having shaggy brown coats, but some of the hairy beasts might have been blonde, raven-haired or red-bodied in real life, thanks to a gene that controls hair color in humans and other mammals.
He was the first to enter the charred farmhouse where the bodies of his relatives lay strewn about the floor, shot and bludgeoned to death. A US Army officer took the 2 surviving children in his arms, barely able to hold back tears as he told them t
US experts agree that the risk of an accidental explosion is real. "You can't rule it out," says Philip Coyle, from the Center for Defense Information think tank in Washington DC. "If we are going to have nuclear weapons, we have t
Scientists have identified a new species of ancient aquatic reptile that swam the seas when dinosaurs still ruled the Earth. Dubbed Umoonasaurus, the creature lived in waters off the coast of what is now Australia 115 million years ago, when the c
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
More than four years ago, President Bush branded Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the "axis of evil." Now the three countries are topping the list of unresolved foreign policy problems he likely will leave to his successor.
A gene mutation that shrinks brain cells may be responsible for the mental retardation of Down's syndrome. The finding suggests there may be a way to interfere with or even reverse the additional mental decline often seen as people with Down'
To her defenders, Tina Carlsen was a concerned mother exploring natural alternatives to surgery for her 9-month-old infant. To the state, she was a kidnapper who prompted an Amber Alert and an order restricting contact with her toddler until after he
Britain approved the extradition a computer expert accused by the United States of perpetrating the world's "biggest military hack of all time." McKinnon, who could face up to 70 years in jail and fines of up to $1.75 million, said he w
California's Sierra Nevada, an impressive mountain range that includes the popular Yosemite National Park, has done a great job of keeping its age a secret. But now a new study provides evidence that it's at least 40 million years old. Sci
Tests in hamsters suggest it may be possible to develop a blood test for mad cow and related diseases in both humans and animals before they develop symptoms, researchers reported. The damaged brain cells may "leak" the infectious prions th
Indicted former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay must stay on the November congressional ballot despite withdrawing from the race, a federal court ruled in a decision that could help Democrats win this key seat. Texas Republicans quickly responded they would
Three decades after they fled the United States to avoid the Vietnam War, a small group of former draft dodgers gathered in Canada, more convinced than ever that their anti-war stand was right. The start of the four-day "Our Way Home" co
The full U.S. House of Representatives is expected to debate next week legislation that would attempt to ban Internet gambling, a $12 billion-a-year industry that gets half its revenue from American gamblers, two Republican lawmakers said.
Embedded in the heart of a supernova remnant 10,000 light-years away is a stellar object the likes of which astronomers have never seen before in our galaxy. At first glance, the object looks like a densely packed stellar corpse known as a neutron
Some of the country's most notorious street gangs have gotten Web-savvy, showcasing illegal exploits, making threats, and honoring killed and jailed members on digital turf. Crips, Bloods, MS-13, 18th Street and others have staked claims on va
Suddenly, the faces and voices of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri are everywhere, in a stream of video and audio messages broadcast to the world. In the past month alone, six new tapes from the two have reached an i
America's appetite for organic food is so strong that supply just can't keep up with demand. Organic means food is grown without bug killer, fertilizer, hormones, antibiotics or biotechnology. Organic products still have only a tiny slice, ab
A diversion of dollars to help fight the war in Iraq has helped create a $530 million shortfall for Army posts at home and abroad, leaving some unable to pay utility bills or even cut the grass.
Joe Abodeely On The Issues
ISRAEL WAS FOUNDED OUT OF TERRORISM AGAINST THE BRITISH AND THE PALESTINIANS. THE ISRAELI INVASION OF GAZA UNDER THE PRETEXT TO FREE A CAPTURED SOLDIER IS TERRORISM IGNORED BY THE U.S.
First, no film in recent memory has focused so sharply on a hero being a Christ-like figure. Superman’s called the light of the world, he came mysteriously from the heavens, returns from the dead, and in the movie he’s even call a “savior.”
The container is loaded, besides the vital food, with a new exercise bicycle, an oxygen generator that will eventually allow the space station to support six inhabitants, a machine that cools the station's cabin air and a lab freezer for scientif
Canada's fledgling prime minister publicly told President George W. Bush on Thursday he was worried about a planned U.S. border crackdown, saying that if the United States becomes more closed to its friends "then the terrorists have won.
A senior intelligence official is leading an effort within the Bush administration to defend former Defense Intelligence Agency China specialist Ronald Montaperto, who pleaded guilty recently to espionage-related charges involving Chinese intelligenc
A coalition of 142 U.S.-based non-profits and organizations and 32 individuals say they have filed what they believe is the most comprehensive review of human rights violations in the United States ever produced. The 465-page "shadow report**
