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"Ken was a rich and powerful man...." Including former President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III. Lawson likened Lay to a black man who was dragged to death in a racially motivated murder 8 years ago.
With a gentle thud, the Johnson-Sea-Link II submersible lands on the ocean floor in the middle of an underwater desert that seems more like the sands of Kuwait than those enchanted undersea scenes seen in the films of Jacques Cousteau. Aboard the
Valerie Plame, the undercover CIA operative whose identity was revealed to reporters, has filed suit against Vice President Dick Cheney, former top presidential policy adviser Karl Rove, and Cheney's ex-chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter"
Human Rights advocates see discrepancies between the official US Government account and a non-government organization (NGO) “shadow report,” and cite disturbing examples of human rights abuses that have gone unchecked within the US and unreported by
When a spider wants to travel long distances, it simply casts out a strand of silk, captures the breeze and "flies" away. They are known to travel hundreds of miles, even ending up on islands in the middle of the ocean. Now scientists ha
Scientists find that moms consistently rank the stink of their baby's "number two" as No. 1. In a new study, 13 mothers were asked to sniff soiled diapers belonging to both their own child and others from an unrelated baby. The women
Earth's temperature has increased by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last century. Most of the warming in the last 50 years is attributed to human activities, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But ...
Some sexual enhancement products sold on the Internet contain the same ingredients as prescription drugs such as Viagra and are not only illegal but dangerous, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cautioned.
From an evolutionary perspective, making babies with a closely related family member is a cardinal sin. A new study suggests that like many animals, humans have evolved built-in mechanisms to help keep this from happening. The study finds that the
For the first time scientists have observed in real-time evolutionary changes in one species driven by competition for resources from another. In a mere two decades, one of Charles Darwin's finch species, Geospiza fortis, reduced its beak size
A major midlife crisis came early for dinosaurs in the tyrannosaur family, as new research suggests many of the giant beasts died just as they reached their sexual prime. Like modern long-living birds and mammals, T. rex and other tyrannosaur spec
Dubbed "The Big Jump", Fournier is eyeing next month for his supersonic free fall from about 130,000 feet—roughly 25 miles above the Earth. The dive from a balloon-carried gondola is slated to take place above the plains of Saskatchewan, Ca
3 US senators have written to President Bush asking him to raise the issue of a top fund manager's exclusion from Russia with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G8 summit. The Hermitage Capital Management which manages over $4 billion of int
Chicago's City Council in April voted to make the city the first in the country to ban the restaurant sale of foie gras, which detractors argue is inhumanely produced by force-feeding ducks and geese through a tube to fatten their livers.
US markets fell sharply for a second day in a broad-based sell-off, as geopolitical uncertainty and record oil prices rattled investors. The Dow lost 1.5%, S&P 500 lost 1.3% and Nasdaq lost 1.7%. Nasdaq has lost 3.5% in the past 2 days.
House Republican leaders are scheduling a new round of immigration hearings, saying three already held have strengthened their case for enforcement-heavy legislation. Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday the hearings have made clea
To the government, he is an al Qaeda "sleeper" agent sent to the US by Osama bin Laden to help sow more terror after the 9/11 attacks. As his lawyers and human rights groups see it he is just one more victim of the many indefinite and seemi
One day years ago, interviewing the usually cheerful Justice William Brennan in his Supreme Court chambers, I found him troubled. "Liberty," he said, "is a fragile thing. The Framers knew that. How can we bring the words of the Bill of
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned that Tehran could halt UN inspections and quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if subjected to increased pressure over its disputed nuclear programme.
In the Pentagon memo that officially extended the protections of the Geneva Conventions to detainees in the war on terror included this: "... existing orders, policies, directives, executive orders, and doctrine comply with the standards,"
The Army has slashed the rate at which young soldiers wash out, allowing it to keep more of the recruits it has struggled to find. That's due largely to changes in how the Army treats enlistees. Gone are the days when trainees run 'til the
Oil prices surged to a record above $78 a barrel in a market agitated by escalating violence in the Middle East and the threat of supply disruptions there and beyond. The latest surge in oil shook stock-market investors' confidence, thoug
Israel struck Beirut airport and Hizbollah's television station and killed 22 civilians in raids on south Lebanon, intensifying its reprisals after Hizbollah captured 2 Israeli soldiers and killed 8. Hizbollah retaliated for Israeli "mass
Oil prices rose for a third day Thursday amid rising tension in the Mideast, including Iran being referred back to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions over its nuclear program and unrest in Israel and Lebanon.
Israel has sent troops into Gaza and Lebanon over 3 captured soldiers. The US and its allies set a collision course with Iran over its nuclear program. And there is mounting concern that Iraq's sectarian violence is crossing into a full civil war
When Wal-Mart corporate wants to change a policy or procedure, it's fond of trying it in a small way in an out-of-the-way place to see if it works. How voluntary any program can be when it comes from the world's largest retailer to its list o
Teens who experiment with marijuana may be making themselves more vulnerable to heroin addiction later in life, if the findings from experiments with rats are any indication. "Cannabis has very long-term, enduring effects on the brain,"
In its continuing crackdown on on-air profanity, the FCC has requested numerous tapes from broadcasters that might include vulgar remarks from unruly spectators, coaches and athletes at live sporting events, industry sources said.
Historians and scientists have exhumed the remains of legendary castrato Farinelli in Italy to study the anatomical effects of castration carried out on young boys to turn them into high-pitched stars of the opera.
The very technologies that facilitate and direct Net communications in the US--routers, packet tracking technologies, filtering software, and the like--can be used to censor content and to restrict the rights of people living in other countries.
