Descendants of extinct mammals like the giant woolly mammoth might one day walk the Earth again. It isn't exactly Jurassic Park, but Japanese researchers are looking at the possibility of using sperm from frozen animals to inseminate living relat
President Bush said that Israel defeated Hezbollah's guerrillas in the monthlong Mideast war and that the Islamic militants were to blame for the deaths of hundreds of Lebanese civilians.Bush admonished Iran and Syria for backing Hezbollah, which
[You didn't know it's a contest?] Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads as they returned to still-smoldering scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 days of vicious combat between Israel and Hezbollah.
Allegations of wrongdoing by U.S. military recruiters jumped by 50 percent from 2004 to 2005, and criminal violations such as sexual harassment and falsifying documents more than doubled, a congressional agency said.
[I oppose the death penalty, but this ruling from the AZ Supremes is weird.] The Arizona Supreme Court overturned a man's death sentence and instead sentenced him to natural life in prison for the murder of an Indian immigrant just days after the
[Terrorism charges all in vogue.] The FBI said it had no information to indicate that the three Texas men arrested with about 1,000 cell phones in their van had any direct connection to known terrorist groups.
"As far as I can make out, people have been arrested but none have been charged with anything or were caught at the scene of any crime. I believe the whole operation has been a smoke-screen."
Without liberty the other values are meaningless and more importantly as
radical individualists each man must decide for himself what is his
hierarchy of values.
A tense calm took the place of more than a month of bitter fighting between Israel and Hezbollah Monday morning, as a UN-brokered cease-fire went into effect. "It's emotional," a exhausted but smiling soldier said as his unit left Leban
[As a precursor to invading Iran.] The Bush Administration was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks. “The big question for our Air Force was how to hit a series of hard targets in Iran successfully,” the former senior inte
As you stroll through the desert airport/spaceport here, you don’t see a “Keep Out! Spaceliner Under Construction” sign. On the other hand, there’s a palpable feeling that behind closed hangar doors, the future of public space travel is, indeed, a wo
Arizonans may not only see Sen. John McCain launching his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this fall but also their other senator battling for the No. 2 post in the U.S. Senate, as well.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is running for re-
When the Supreme Court rejected President Bush's executive power claims in last month's decision invalidating the Guantánamo military tribunals, it also shredded the administration's arguments for domestic spying. Now a bipartisan group o
BetOnSports, the sports gambling Web site indicted by United States prosecutors last month for taking bets from hundreds of thousands of Americans, told employees yesterday that it planned to shut down most of its operations, a spokesman said.
A soft drink commercial that mockingly depicts airport security agents confiscating a passenger's soda just so they can drink it themselves can still be seen in light of recent events, even the "normally irony-aware people at The Daily Show*
As if the ruthless air attacks on Lebanese civilians weren't enough, Israel has been using illegal cluster munitions in populated areas of that country. Confirmed that an attack with cluster bombs was carried out on the village of Blida on July 1
BRITISH officials are furious with the US Administration for “jumping the gun” by declaring that al-Qaeda was behind the airline terror plot. Request was ignored by Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security chief. Motivated by political considerations
US officials assured Israel that UN would be authorized to determine whether the area belongs to Lebanon or Syria, but that the future status of the territory would only be determined in negotiations between Israel and Farms' rightful owners.
How has this postage-stamp sized area of about 10 square miles come to cause so much trouble? And why do the Israelis want it so badly that they have been willing to court war with Hezbollah and threaten to reject UN Resolution 1701 over it?
[Pay your marriage tax.] A Missouri couple who must get married, or move, in order to comply with a housing ordinance sued claiming rules prohibiting the unmarried couple and their children from living together are unconstitutional.
[Meanwhile doctors are prosecuted for mercy killing those they had to abandon.] In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thousands fled New Orleans, the city's prisoners were trapped. What really happened to those left behind, and how crucial
It all began with a tip: In the aftermath of the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings on London's transit system, British authorities received a call from a worried member of the Muslim community, reporting general suspicions about an acquaintance.
The Australian government was facing a backbench revolt over plans to introduce draconian new immigration laws. The bill would force migrants who apply for asylum to be processed offshore, most probably on the remote Pacific island of Nauru. The most
[fascinating account] For a month, groups of Hizbullah militants on a Lebanese hillside have withstood heavy artillery shelling and airstrikes to continue firing hundreds of rockets into Israel from positions a few hundred yards from the border.
More than 16 months after the civilian border patrol movement took root in Arizona, the co-founders of the original Minuteman Project are feuding publicly, and some former loyalists are calling for detailed accounting of the $1.8 million in donations
While the Bush Administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled "private" and "illegal" militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army