The Israeli onslaught in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s daily victories in the regional public relations war over the conflict threaten to claim a victim in Iran: whatever hope remained of resurrecting the political reform movement.
Officials at the federal court in Alexandria posted on the Web nearly all the evidence presented during the sentencing trial of Sept. 11, 2001, conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, marking the first time a federal court has provided such extensive online
[We're the rich.] A Senate committee today plans to criticize multimillion-dollar tax-avoidance schemes used by 4 prominent individuals, to highlight what it concludes is a more than $40 billion-a-year drain on federal coffers by offshore tax sca
A project to build a critical oil pipeline in northern Iraq has fallen more than 2 years behind schedule, costing the Iraqi government $14.8 billion in revenue and jeopardizing the safety of local water supplies, according to a report by U.S. governm
"The fighting continues," Olmert said. "There is no cease-fire, and there will not be any cease-fire in the coming days." He spoke just hours after Secretary of State Rice reported general agreement on terms for a cease-fire resol
Fidel Castro, who took control of Cuba in 1959, rebuffed repeated U.S. attempts to oust him and survived communism’s demise almost everywhere else, temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul because of surgery.
From here on out, say a growing chorus of experts, America will pay a price for maintaining its 45-year trade ban with the communist nation - a strategic and economic price that will have negative repercussions for the US in the decades to come.
Despite all the talk about allowing products from developing countries into their markets, the European Union, the United States and Japan made it clear that some products were so sensitive that they had to remain off limits.
"A lot of the products that used to be made here now are made overseas," Johnston said. "Nobody is against trade. It’s all about what is fair. "Pretty much everybody we compete against is subsidized in one form or another, especia
A television sting claimed to expose a thriving "arms-for-alms" trade in India yesterday when journalists apparently caught doctors on screen agreeing to amputate the limbs of beggars for as little as 10,000 rupees (£125).
An investigati
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an agreement to bypass the Bush administration and work together to explore ways to fight global warming.
The two leaders announced the pact as they met with bus
After months of disillusionment, America's neo-conservatives have fallen in love again with the Bush administration because of its support for Israel's bombardment of Lebanon. "This is exactly the right strategy, which you could call
Using a new genetic mapping technique, scientists say they found more than 20,000 different types of microbe in a single liter of water from deep sites in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
"These observations blow away all previous estimates o
"The sickening slaughter on both sides must end now. President Bush must call for an immediate ceasefire. This madness must stop," Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, a possible candidate in the 2008 presidential election, said on the Senate floo
City marshals blocked a radio personality from feeding homeless people at a City Hall park, and issued summonses to a television news crew covering a publicity protest against a ban on "mobile soup kitchens."
Israel's Security Cabinet has approved an expansion of the ground campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. The announcement came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said his military was inflicting heavy damage on Hezbollah
Israel will release 2 Lebanese prisoners in return for the 2 soldiers abducted by Hezbollah, as part of a cease-fire agreement, government and defense officials said. The UN Security Council would call for a cease-fire in Lebanon
“Overall, this election was handled in such a way that we have no reason for confidence in the results,” famed election attorney Paul Lehto said of California’s 50th Congressional District special election between Francine Busby and Brian Bilbray.
The "worst ever security flow found in Diebold RS voting machines."
Discovered a switch inside of the machine which, when flipped, can have the machine operate in "a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified ver
A male dog will whine and beg in deference to a stronger dog, but will lower its voice into a guttural growl if it thinks it has a fighting chance.
Men unconsciously do a similar thing, scientists say.
A new study finds that the lower the pitch
The proliferation of garbage in low Earth orbit has reached a point where it will increase in the coming decades even if all rocket launches were canceled starting now, according to research by NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Google Earth community members have spotted a strange installation by the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan. A 800x700 meter scale model of a mountainous landscape has been created right next to a military base.
Despite the success of NASA’s second shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia tragedy, the decision to launch astronauts to the Hubble Space Telescope remains uncertain as top agency officials debate its safety.
... claim rogue police officers were involved in the killing. The lawsuit ended in a mistrial last year when it was discovered that a police detective intentionally hid statements by a jailhouse informant linking the killing to 2 former officers.
• By Andrew Buncombe in Washington - The Independent
New permanent prison will open in the Cuban enclave in the next few weeks. Camp 6, a state-of-the-art maximum-security jail built by a Halliburton subsidiary, will be able to hold 200 prisoners.
With civil libertarians crying foul, seven states have authorized police to take DNA samples from those arrested for – but not convicted of – certain crimes.
All the economists who missed the stock bubble—this is almost all economists—are just about to be embarrassed again. Several reports released this week provide the strongest evidence yet that the housing bubble may finally be deflating.
Israeli Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's supporters blocked traffic to thousands of businesses and hotels as they set up camps along Mexico City's main avenue to demand a recount of Mexico's July 2 presidential election
"The agency hopes that as both sides are committed to working diligently through these issues, the process can be wrapped up in a matter of weeks," the FDA said in a statement.