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Of the dangers presented by the conflict between Israel and Hizbullah in southern Lebanon, the possibility of a broader Middle East war is among the less likely. In the 1967 Arab-Israeli war - and repeatedly since - Israel has shown its clear mili
Last Wednesday, barely 18 hours after the railway blasts in Mumbai (Bombay) that claimed some 200 lives, a mysterious caller phoned up local journalist Rashid Rahi to praise the attacks and to proclaim the arrival of a new militant group, Jammu and K
The law signed by President Clinton on Aug. 22, 1996, has transformed the way the nation helps its neediest citizens. Gone is the promise of a government check for parents raising children in poverty. In its place are 50 state programs to help those
Over the next 12 to 18 months, NASA is loading its space shuttles with space-station elements that will push the orbiters to their cargo-carrying limits. The complexity and packed pacing of spacewalks that shuttle astronauts and the station crew will
When Israeli Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Dan Halutz said, "Nothing is safe [in Lebanon]," he was only stating the obvious. "[It's] as simple as that," he said. Lebanese ports, air and sea, power plants, television stations, brid
US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts". "I think it would be a mistake to ascribe moral
Seeing a major opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq, prominent neoconservatives are calling for unconditional U.S. support for Israel's military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon and "regime change" in Syria
[No one cares.] Israel is in violation of U.S. arms-control laws for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters, and missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation of that militarily
Europe’s leaders sought to build momentum behind a UN plan to send soldiers to the conflict zone in Lebanon. But doubts about the viability of such a move – already resisted by Israel – were raised when George Bush, made unguarded critical remarks ab
[Coinciding with the end of the Democratic President's second term.] U.S. war commanders think some level of American forces will be needed in Iraq until 2016 and those forces will receive continued support from the vast majority of Iraqis.
As recent news reports have made clear, the federal government has been waging a full-scale campaign against the privacy rights of Americans for quite some time. The casualties of this undeclared war have not been limited to personal conversations, m
The United States government continued yesterday to monitor developments in Lebanon, but the only practical measure it took was sending a task force to Beirut to plan the evacuation of U.S. nationals should that become necessary. Regarding the war
Prosecutors are not required to tell a man accused of serving as a "sleeper agent" for ousted dictator Saddam Hussein whether the National Security Agency has tapped his phone, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Rebecca R. Pallme
A spokesman for the recording association, Jonathan Lamy, said XM Satellite's legal arguments were "arcane." "If XM wants to compete with iTunes, Rhapsody and similar music distribution services, it needs to obtain the appropria
The goal of the five-year mission was to test inflatable technology that could some day be used to construct an expandable commercial space station. The experimental craft carried a shoebox-sized payload from the NASA Ames Research Center in Northern
Former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck and a senior member of an unidentified royal family have all bought tickets for the world's first tourist space flights planned for 2008. Virgin Group, owned by billionaire business
Jade Jurdi cannot shake the images of his three-day journey to escape from Lebanon, which Israel has bombarded for six days in an escalating conflict with Hezbollah militants. All around him roads and bridges were shattered and the thunder of bomb
Thousands of Americans remained stranded Monday in Lebanon as the State and Defense departments developed plans to evacuate them. By late Monday, 64 Americans had been flown by Marine helicopter to safety on the island of Cyprus. The pace of the e
On a sunny Tuesday, House members who belong to the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus left suits and ties behind, grabbed shotguns and headed for the firing range. In a Washington equivalent of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," more tha
The FBI initially sought terrorism suspect Jose Padilla’s cooperation to help prevent what intelligence sources indicated might be an imminent al-Qaida attack, an FBI agent testified. Padilla refused and was later implicated in an alleged radioactive
President Bush told Mexican President Vicente Fox the US Congress is unlikely to pass immigration reforms before November congressional elections, Fox said. The Mexican president asked Bush about Congress' negotiations on immigration when the two
The US defended its record on prisoner treatment, racial profiling, immigration and the death penalty in its first appearance before a top UN human rights panel in 11 years. Submitted a 66-page document offering legal justifications for policies rang
The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye insignia, as well as logos for some of its shows, on eggs — 35 million of them in September and October. CBS’s copywriters are referring to the medium as “egg-
AB 1147 is not the biggest bill of this legislative session, but it is one of the most intriguing — and most fun. Start with its purpose: to legalize the growing of hemp, a cousin of marijuana — both members of the notorious cannabis family.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Bush Administration plans to try hundreds of foreign detainees before special military commissions, Congress has begun to grapple with the tough issue of how to set legal standards for the
For many millions of years after our universe first formed no stars existed, and then there was one. That primordial star was likely a massive blazing behemoth that burned brighter and faster than any star around today.
In the past, European taxpayers relied on generous national pension plans fueled in part by those still working. But in recent years, many governments have made severe cutbacks amid fears that with fewer people paying into the system, there will be l
Because Israel and Lebanon have never signed a peace accord, the countries remain officially in a state of war that has existed since 1948 when Lebanon joined other Arab nations against the newly formed Jewish state. The two countries have been bo
The US military has wanted a plane that could loiter just outside enemy territory for more than a dozen hours and, on command, hurtle toward a target faster than the speed of sound. And then level it. But aircraft that excel at subsonic flight are in
Howard Taub is showing off a sticker about the size of a hole punch. And he can barely contain his glee. That's because hidden in the little dot is a computer chip with enough memory to store a song, a photo, or a 100-page text document. The chip
