Cracks emerged Friday in Israel's coalition government over the Lebanon war, as Defense Minister Amir Peretz demanded a full-scale inquiry, putting himself at odds with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "I have come to the conclusion that, to guar
"Concern about civil war within the Iraqi civilian population and among some defense analysts has increased in recent months.
"The security situation is currently at its most complex state since the initiation of Operation Iraq Freedom,*
Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani has ordered the Iraqi national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish one in his northern autonomous region in what appeared to be another move toward more self-rule in the north, local officials said.
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first increment in (on?) ramping up to the NAFTA Superhighway designed to
integrate Mexico, Canada, and the United States. It is an "Express Lane"
through Customs at the Port of Entry in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
They can come in, steal your property, show no I.D., use a warrant that is so secret that the Sheriff could not see it, charge you with no crime, and then tell you, "we are keeping your property, and we will give/sell it to whomever we want.
An Irondequoit couple whose home was raided and dog was shot last year by police seeking evidence of illegal drug sales has filed a sweeping lawsuit against four local police departments, four municipalities and numerous individual police officers.
An Ohio legislative panel yesterday rubber-stamped an unprecedented process that would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they've never been charged with a crime.
The nation's governors sought help from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in their ongoing fight against proposals in Congress to give President Bush more control — and governors less — over the National Guard during disasters.
Drinking fruit and vegetable juice on a regular basis can dramatically reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer's, according to a study appearing today in the American Journal of Medicine. Researchers in Japan and the US
US military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a 2-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of US and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
The answers were so good, Republican candidates wanted to use them as their own. The embarrassment was at least 7 did. Republicans in House races copied their party's talking points and included parts of the answers as their own for an AARP sur
Farmers may seem like trustworthy people, but the US Dept of Agriculture is taking no chances. It's spending tens of millions of dollars to create an enormous computerized map of every farmer's field in America. The program is intended to m
The Federal Education Dept. shared personal information on hundreds of student loan applicants with the FBI across a 5-year period that began after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The program, called Project Strikeback, the Ed Dept. received names from
A computer in the car would beep if it spots a stolen vehicle. The system is able to scan as many as 1,500 license plates a day. In a typical day, an officer without the system would be lucky to run 40 plates.
Its blend of music, visuals, humor and science is so new and so brilliant, it triggered feelings of fascination, laughter, amazement--and, yes, wonder.
During a rally held in Salt Lake City, thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson as he blasted George Bush as a "dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president." The protest against Bush's Iraq war policies was h
In a six-page report, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Mohamed ElBaradei bluntly says "Iran has not suspended its enrichment activities".
Federal agents raided the offices of at least six Alaska lawmakers in a search for any ties between the legislators and a large oil field services company, officials said. The offices of Senate President Ben Stevens, R-Anchorage; Kohring; Rep. Bruce
Gen. McInerney advocates using B-2 stealth bombers, cruise missiles and jet fighters to conduct a one- or two-day bombing campaign to take out Iran's air defenses, military facilities and about 40 nuclear targets, which includes a Russian-built r
Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III and Cpl. Trent Thomas admitted the slaying, one of two high-profile cases in which Marines allegedly killed Iraqi civilians without provocation.
Gannon said a third defendant, Lance Cpl. Robert Pennington, gave a stateme
The United States has expanded its force in Iraq to 140,000 troops, the most since January and 13,000 more than five weeks ago, the Pentagon said, amid relentless violence in Baghdad and elsewhere.
Lawmakers sent Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a bill Wednesday that would make California the first state to jump aboard a national movement to elect the president by popular vote.
Under the legislation, California would grant its electoral votes to t
The latest entrant to the crowded Internet browser market is the appropriately named Browzar, a tool specifically designed to protect users' privacy by not retaining details of the Web sites they've searched.
A previously unknown work by Johann Sebastian Bach has turned up in a crate of 18th-century birthday cards removed from a German library shortly before it was devastated by fire last year.
Only this month has the US started to destroy the deadly mustard gas now outlawed by international treaty. The Army facility incinerates it at the well-guarded desert complex, which was home to 45% of the chemical weapons stockpile before destruction
Paleontologists have uncovered a 25-million-year-old whale fossil with a monstrous set of teeth and enormous eyes on the coast of Australia.
The discovery has researchers rethinking whales’ evolutionary history.
Humans have more copies of a possibly important brain gene in their genomes than other apes. The gene is implicated in the function of the neocortex, the region of the brain that, in humans, is responsible for consciousness, language, and other highe