News Corp. shareholders learned how much revenue a closely watched Internet division would generate—if they were lucky enough to be invited to a meeting in Australia last week with Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch.
Owners of the rest of the c
Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria was cleared of genocide charges on Saturday for his role in a 1968 massacre, in a blow to efforts to prosecute former leaders for rights abuses.
Echeverria, 84, was charged with genocide a week ago and was
The Electronic Freedom Foundation is reviving its efforts to ignite a lobbying movement among music fans and recording artists. EFF is urging its blog readers to sign petitions asking governments to do away with lawsuits against music fans.
[This will never go to trial.] U.S. investigators have asked Iraqi authorities to help them navigate cultural sensitivities to exhume the body of a teenager allegedly raped and murdered with her family by American soldiers, a military official said.
An 82-year-old woman who was given a jaywalking ticket for taking too long to cross a busy street had her $114 fine waived by a court commissioner. [Note: She was still found guilty; the King's men never error.]
Former President Bill Clinton praised President Bush for supporting reforms that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to seek citizenship but said the debate in Congress is being fomented by Republicans who want to divide America.
Cingular Wireless Corp. promised to provide uninterrupted service to AT&T Wireless customers when it acquired that company in 2004, but instead it nickel-and-dimed them and degraded their reception in an effort to persuade them to sign new contracts,
There's no way to prove Tata was the world's oldest crow when he died Sunday at age 59. But an expert on crows says it's possible.
Tata's tale began in 1947 when a thunderstorm blew the fledgling out of his nest in a Long Island ce
As many as 400,000 people turned out to protest what they said was a fraudulent conservative victory in Mexico's presidential election, which the leftist candidate challenged in court, organizers said.
"What we are requesting is that the
The G-8 summit that President Bush and seven other world leaders are attending next weekend in Russia is often billed as a gathering of the world's leading economic powers. It is not. Consider: China, now the world's fourth-largest economy an
Israel launched rapid-fire air strikes against Palestinian militants across the Gaza Strip on Sunday after rebuffing a proposed ceasefire by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
Israel is threatening to expand its offensive unless militants rel
A key test of a daring yet wobbly spacewalking technique that could be used someday to repair space shuttle heat shields worked well and got good reviews from two astronauts from the shuttle Discovery, NASA officials said.
The repair simulat
When he crisscrossed the East Coast in his big rig, New Jersey truck driver Bob Grant hauled everything from baby powder to rocket fuel. His specialty was hazardous materials, or hazmats, such as gasoline, butane, and diesel fuel.
Then came 9/11.
Cities and states that aid illegal immigrants without reporting them to the authorities risk losing millions of dollars in homeland security and other federal money under two spending bills approved last month by the House.
The bills, which fund t
The second-ranking American commander in Iraq has concluded that some senior Marine officers were negligent in failing to investigate more aggressively the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians by marines in Haditha last November, two Defense Department off
A new Gallup poll finds that roughly 2 in 3 Americans urge a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, with 31% wanting this to start immediately.
"Taken together, it is perhaps fair to say that a significant majority of Americans would like the United States
Masked Shiite gunmen roamed through west Baghdad's Jihad neighborhood, dragging Sunnis from their cars, picking them out on the street and killing them in a rampage that police said killed 41 people in a dramatic escalation of sectarian violence.
The Bush Administration has been successful in managing the news “to the extent that most Americans are not aware of just how dire it is and how little progress has been made” and revealed that some embedded reporters “have been blacklisted because t
After famously telling reporters that they "don't do body counts," Pentagon officials now say that they have been keeping a record of civilian casualties in Iraq...this would be equivalent to 570,000 U.S. citizens killed in the same per
US forces in Iraq have launched a series of bloody attacks on Shia militia forces in and around Baghdad, killing or wounding 30 fighters and provoking widespread anger in the Shia community.
A man indicted in a phone-jamming scheme— in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts —will argue at trial that the Bush Administration and the national Republican Party gave their approval to the plan
Just days before George W. Bush took office in 2001, lobbyist Jack Abramoff was busily working with Ralph Reed, his longtime friend, political sidekick, and business associate, to place a key ally in the Interior Department. His old e-mails to the co
You will not believe this story aired on a local ABC affiliate in Kansas. The court ordered that a man could not have a fund raiser on his property for libertarians and the Sheriff's dept. was out in force.
The alleged plot by Muslim extremists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York City was nothing more than chatter by unaffiliated individuals with no financing or training in an open forum already monitored extensively by the United States Government
It was also revealed that British operatives involved in the Friday, May 26 shootout at the House Rayburn building parking garage had been seeking files in DeLay's office in an attempt to recover evidence regarding indicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abra
A U.N. meeting meant to expand a five-year-old crackdown on the illicit global trade in small arms ended in chaos as delegates ran out of time without reaching agreement on a plan for future action.
"There was a total meltdown at the end. You
Prosecutors investigating the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s said on Friday it will take months to assemble cases against those responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people.
"The investigation phase of any trial is a long process,
Scientifically, though, there's hope—that is, if politics and economics don't quash it. As infections get worse and harder to handle, a medical treatment largely abandoned by Western Europe and the Americas might make a comeback. It's cal