Feelings of confusion, difficulty concentrating and memory lapses were fairly common among a sample of US soldiers examined after they returned from wartime duty in Iraq. Comparing soldiers' mental capabilities and emotional states before and aft
The scientists found that faults in the p53 gene, which stops damaged cells from dividing, and in the p16 gene, which helps to regulate and prevent cancer from developing, were two changes linked to more aggressive tumors.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Syria and Iran that they risked a confrontation if they continued to support terrorism and export instability to Iraq and elsewhere.
In a speech urging a rethink of the West's strategy to defeat extremi
Street protests led by the leftist candidate in Mexico's presidential election plunged the capital into chaos for a second day on Tuesday, raising fears of a long and increasingly nasty fight over vote fraud claims.
PRESIDENT Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran would not bow to "the language of force and threats", a day after the UN security council ordered it to freeze sensitive nuclear work by the end of the month.
"Iranians consider it their right t
The U.S. government won an appeal allowing it to seek phone records of NY Times reporters investigating government probes into Islamic charities shortly before the 9/11 attacks. The government wants to know the identity of government sources who migh
More than two-thirds of the Army National Guard's 34 brigades are not combat ready due largely to vast equipment shortfalls that will take as much as $21 billion to correct, the top National Guard general said.
Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum spoke to a
Undercover investigators entered the US using fake documents repeatedly this year — including some cases in which Homeland Security Department agents didn't ask for identification.
At nine border crossings on the Mexico and Canadian borders, a
Although security concerns have been raised, Pima County officials have discounted them, saying the machines will be thoroughly inspected and tested. But on Friday, county supervisors must insist on specific answers, not generalities.
• Stan Goff, veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces
Goff writes on the events surrounding the fratricidal death of Army Ranger and former NFL player Pat Tillman, and the possible military coverup that ensued.
Goff argues that Tillman’s commanding officer, in a recent ESPN magazine interview, made a
"With $6,000 and a laptop computer, three kids from upstate New York made a documentary about 9/11 that spread across the Internet and threw millions for a loop." - Nancy Jo Sales, Vanity Fair
My Online Journal article on Dov Zakheim, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March, 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually nearly 3 years earliler, Donald Ru
A secret Pentagon "roadmap" on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, on October 2003, calls for "boundaries" between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for
Within minutes all 8 drivers and guards had been handcuffed and locked in the back of one of the vans on a suffocatingly hot day, the cash, equivalent to about $850,000, had been stolen by the men in the convoy - whoever they were - and the Iraqi ban
Army Cheif of Staff Peter J. Schoomaker and Rep. John Murtha, D-PA., a critic of the Bush adminstration's conduct of the war, say that units actually in combat have adequate personnel and equipment. But they say the Army is forced to shortchange
Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who commanded the Guantanamo prison and helped shape detention practices at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, retired from the U.S. military on Monday with a top honor and praise from the Army.
Miller headed the prison camp for
The Bush administration appealed a court decision Monday that allowed a lawsuit to go forward challenging the president's warrantless domestic spying program.
In rejecting government claims that the suit could expose state secrets and jeopardi
North and South Korean troops exchanged gunfire across their heavily fortified border for the first time in about a year, a military official said, with the incident coming as once warming ties turn chilly.
North Korean troops fired two shots at a
New York City has reached a landmark deal with two of 15 gun dealers it sued over illegal sales that will allow authorities to conduct undercover surveillance on the companies and videotape sales. [It's your allies that will betray you.]
Lawyers for former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby asked a federal judge to allow a memory expert to testify in their bid to show Libby may have been confused or had a faulty memory in recalling conversations in the CIA leak case.
[Don't read it. Just vote yes.] A Senate famous for its "deliberative pace" is hoping to rush out bills this week bolstering pensions, raising the minimum wage and cutting taxes before departing the Capitol and shifting their re-electio
Majority Leader Bill Frist hasn't been following all the Senate's rules when it comes to disclosing details about his finances.
Frist and his wife are the sole trustees in charge of a family foundation bearing the senator's name, accor
As Asia grapples with the fallout from North Korea's projectile posturing, another military flashpoint in the region - the Taiwan Strait - is in the midst of missile tensions as well.
A private TV station reported earlier this month that Taiwa
The Senate moved closer Monday to passing a bill that would open vast new areas of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, voting to cut off debate before a final vote, expected no later than Wednesday.
... led Mr. Foti, a normally cautious lawyer, into a firestorm, as many people question his decision to order the arrests of a doctor and 2 nurses, whom he accused of killing 4 hospital patients with drug injections in the desperate days after Hurric
Mr. Barrett’s views, which he described on a conservative radio talk show, have outraged some Wisconsin legislators and generated a fierce debate about academic freedom on a campus long known as a haven for progressive ideologies and student activism