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Ground controllers today successfully performed a major maneuver of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter—an “end game” tactic that puts the orbiting probe a step closer to studying the red planet with its entire suite of science sensors.
Earlier this year, astronomers witnessed for the first time the final death throes of an aged and collapsing star as it spewed high-energy light beams into space before exploding as a supernova.
A Senate committee said it would not vote this year on another term for Kenneth Tomlinson to oversee U.S.-backed international TV and radio services, following a government report that said he used the office for personal gain.
Europe's first mission to the moon is due to crash-land in a cloud of dust and rock early Sunday, ending a three-year voyage that gathered data about the lunar surface and tested a new engine intended to propel future spacecraft to Mercury and ot
U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
With paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election in Ohio scheduled to be destroyed next week, the secretary of state in Columbus, under pressure from critics, said yesterday that he would move to delay the destruction at least for several month
Perched in a green and forested aerie in the city's southern hills, the exclusive Valle Arriba Golf Club has long offered a pleasant escape from urban cacophony and congestion. Now, a staunch ally of President Hugo Chavez wants it.
If Israel asks, the US would "seriously consider" granting the Defense Ministry additional financial assistance because of the huge expenses incurred during the war in Lebanon, a high-ranking US diplomat revealed.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon.
Vermont schoolboy was within his rights to wear a T-shirt depicting George Bush as a chicken and accusing him of being a former alcohol and cocaine abuser, an appeals court ruled. Zachary Guiles' school violated the First Amendment when it ordere
Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.
Bankrolled almost entirely by taxpayers, President Bush is roaming far and wide on Air Force One to help Republicans retain control of Congress and capture statehouse contests in high-stakes midterm elections.
President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.
Nihad Awad, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations; John Mearsheimer, Co-Director of International Security Policy Program, Univ. of Chicago; Stephen Walt, International Relations Professor, Harvard University
A growing debate within Israel over whether President Bush's Middle East policies really serve the interests of the Jewish state has spread to Washington, where influential voices within the US Jewish community are questioning the administration*
Talk show hosts, elected officials, and just every day common individuals are constantly crying for the U.S. economy to be less dependent on imported oil and shift America’s reliance on energy to renewable energy supplies and technologies thereby cle
Dr John Gee, an expert on chemical weapons, worked with the US-led weapons hunter, the Iraq Survery Group, after the war and wrote the critical six-page letter when he decided to resign in March 2004. In it he warned the Federal Government the hunt
A New York Times decision to block British online readers from seeing a story about London terrorism suspects raises new questions on restricting the flow of information in the Internet age, legal and media experts say. The New York Times said on Tu
Enough! Just stop. You've had your say over and over and over. You've repeated yourself ad nauseam for years without making an iota of sense. You've accomplished nothing construtive, absolutely nothing. You've repeated the same n
The imminet 5th anniversary of 9/11 provides the proper moment for a good, ol'-fashioned sum-up of the past half-decade under Cheney-Bush, especially because so much has happened in the past 12-months. The Bush Administration's Katrina debac
Adding to the drama of a heated gubernatorial race, a former GOP lawmaker in Oregon filed a state elections complaint on Friday night seeking to knock off third-party gubernational candidate, Mary Starrett, from the November 2006 ballot.
Adding to the drama of a heated gubernatorial race, a former GOP lawmaker in Oregon filed a state elections complaint on Friday night seeking to knock off third-party gubernational candidate, Mary Starrett, from the November 2006 ballot.
Conspiracy theorists fear the US is secretly taking control of South America's largest underground reservoir of fresh water. The accusations are clouding international efforts to develop the Guarani Aquifer. And the rumors come at a time when w
It is no longer a secret that the adminstration of US President George W. Bush has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The adminstration's plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently b
Alan Greenspan’s time bomb was passed off to Ben Bernanke. This time bomb is the huge build-up of fiat money that enabled Greenspan to escape the 2001 recession without a scratch.
Despite the lack of US troops and Bush’s inability to prevail in Afghanistan and Iraq, neocons in Bush’s government are working around the clock to instigate war with Iran and Syria.
Welcome to paradise. But where are you? Is this a new science-fiction novel from Margaret Atwood, the sequel to Blade Runner, or Donald Trump tripping on acid?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Syrian President Bashar Assad solidified their stances, with Chavez lashing out at the US and Israel as the "roots" of the problems in the Middle East and the world.
NOW is also preparing to use the Internet to support the story. Tomorrow morning, features on the program's website will include a state-by-state overview of election rights
Rumsfeld has become one of the Bush administration's most divisive figures, and demands for his resignation have become a litmus test in congressional races around the country.
