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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed to Congress to press the war in Iraq with money and troops, portraying his country as crucial to the U.S. as a front line in the war on terror and comparing violence there to the Sept. 11 attacks.
[Couldn't happen to a bunch of nicer guys.] Threats against federal judges and other court employees have reached record numbers, the U.S. Marshals Service says. The number of threats in fiscal year 2005 increased 63% from 2003. Marshals investig
The separation fo church and state - gone with the stroke of a pen. As of March 7, 2006, our nations leader signed another Executive Order, which tied the Department of Homeland Security to our leader's "faith-based" churches. Okay, al
The federal government sued two members of the Missouri Public Service Commission on Tuesday to stop them from seeking information about customers records that telephone companies may have given to the NSA. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in
Congratulations to those elected officials who voted against the proposed gay marriage and flag burning constitutional amendments and the federal funding of stem cell research bill. They all preserved, protected, and defended the United States Const
Legislation drafted by the Bush administration setting out new rules on bringing terror detainees to trial would allow hearsay evidence to be introduced unless it was deemed “unreliable” and would permit defendants to be excluded from their own trial
Last year, a report called "Asking the Right Questions About Electronic Voting" took a look at the issues surrounding the move by most of the country's election jurisdictions to electronic voting machines. The report's theoretical a
President Bush said a new plan to increase U.S. and Iraqi forces in the besieged capital of Baghdad will help quell rising violence that is threatening Iraq's transformation to a self-sustaining democracy. "Obviously the violence in Baghd
Half of Americans now say Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the US invaded the country in 2003 -- up from 36% last year, a Harris poll finds. Pollsters deemed the increase both "substantial" and "surprising" in light of pe
As violence spreads in the Middle East, the Bush administration is grappling with an unwanted side effect of its policies: higher oil prices caused by fears of a disruption in global oil supplies. While the administration seeks to confront Iran, g
An Army Reserve officer who sought to resign his commission last year but was turned down has been granted an honorable discharge. All other resignation requests from Army Reserve officers "are currently on hold, but they are not being turned do
No one in the Bush administration has been stripped of security clearances over the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to reporters three years ago. In a letter to Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., the CIA said it had no record o
Jordan is a “central hub” in the secret and illegal transfer of people the CIA suspects are terrorists, Amnesty International said. The London- based human rights group report details the cases of “dozens” of individuals who have allegedly been tortu
The Department of Homeland Security must take steps to curtail the repeated interrogation of people at international airports or border posts simply because their names resemble those of terror suspects. The problem, the report says, is not that c
HUGO CHÁVEZ, the ardently anti-American President of Venezuela, arrives in Russia today to sign a billion-dollar arms deal that has infuriated and alarmed the US. The self-styled leftist revolutionary will sign an agreement with President Putin to
The Bush administration acknowledged yesterday that it had long known about Pakistan's plans to build a large plutonium-production reactor, but it said the White House was working to dissuade Pakistan from using the plant to expand its nuclear ar
US-based Human Rights Watch says Israel has used cluster bombs in civilian areas during its assault on Lebanon. The group says an attack using the munitions on the village of Blida last week killed one person and injured 12.
The US has given Israeli forces between 10 and 14 days to finish dealing Hezbollah "a strategic blow," a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official said, as both Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas continued to volley rockets across the L
A new documentary says the United States is now using experimental laser weapons against Iraqi civilians.
The European Union waded out to salvage a mini deal from the wreck of world trade talks, but experts said the tide has turned foul for three years because of US elections.
A bill that would make it a crime to take a pregnant girl across state lines for an abortion without her parents' knowledge passed the Senate, but vast differences with the House version stood between the measure and President Bush's desk.
Year after year, Arizona schools chief Tom Horne withheld from the federal government and the public some of the state’s worst AIMS scores. Arizona took advantage of an off-the-books deal Horne says he struck with the U.S. Education Department in 200
Even before Alexander the Great, Macedonia evoked power from which to steer clear. When the ancient Greeks held their Olympic Games they forbade the participation of the mountainous neighbor to the north because the hunter-warriors there were too st
A judge ruled Tuesday that a 16-year-old cancer patient who has refused conventional medical treatment does not have to report to a hospital as previously ordered and scheduled a trial to settle the dispute.
Some of the most pointed critiques of the administration's policy in Iraq are coming from lawmakers who represent constituencies with close ties to the military. Their criticism underscores how widespread concerns about the war have become, even
Federal officials are preventing Hurricane Katrina victims in government trailer parks from being interviewed by the media unless a FEMA agent is present at all times.
They flew off the shelves. They flew over the water. Now tube-kites, or inflatable flying watercraft, are also flying headlong into controversy, as deaths and injuries mount and the Army Corps of Engineers bans them from federally managed waters.
June 28th Senate Bill 1557 was signed into law as 'emergency legislation'. This law requires a 2% Hand Count of paper ballots. But will government allow this law to be enacted? Read on.
Cuba is drilling for oil 60 miles off the coast of Florida with help from China, Canada and Spain even as Congress struggles to end years of deadlock over drilling for what could be a treasure trove of offshore oil and gas.
The Bush adminstration plans to cut nearly in half the number of audits who review tax returns of some of the wealthiest US taxpayers. Plans call for eliminating 157 of the IRS's 345 estate tax lawyers, the New York Times reported.
