Federal officials will begin installing steel pole barriers this month to stop drug and migrant smugglers from driving through what have been high-traffic corridors along sections of the Mexican border in Arizona and New Mexico.
GENEVA - LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary Wednesday in good health and with plans to attend an internati
An issue underlying the current House leadership race: Both Boehner and his rival for majority leader, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), have extensive ties to the same K Street lobbying world that stained DeLay's reputation and spawned the Abramoff corrup
Colin Powell said that he harbors no regrets about the invasion of Iraq. Iraq's eventual government might not be as broad-based as hoped. Do not overestimate terrorists' power. "Let's not take away our liberties, out freedoms and our
Rove was offered a plea deal in December and that Luskin had twice met with Fitzgerald during that time to discuss Rove's legal status. Rove turned down the plea deal, which would likely have required him to provide Fitzgerald with information ag
Amnesty International has released accounts alleging new prisoner torture and abuse in Guantanamo Bay and Kandahar, Afghanistan alleges numerous instances of physical and psychological abuse by U.S. personnel and Pakistani authorities. Read his full,
The CIA kept 23 people in a secret prison in Romania and maintained similar facilities in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Macedonia and Kosovo, according to allegations contained in a leaked Swiss intelligence report.
Young Canadian Omar Khadr, who was detained in Afghanistan when he was only 15 for allegedly killing a US soldier in July 2002, and Yemeni national Ali Hamza Ahmad al-Bahlul, a suspected al-Qaeda propaganda specialist, are expected to face preliminar
Two New Hampshire state representatives faced off during House committee hearings on a bill that would lower the drinking age for people in the military.
The women, members of a coalition of about seven groups that call themselves "the Granny Peace Brigade," said they wanted to enlist in the military to replace grandchildren who had been sent to Iraq. "I'm willing to inconvenience m
The National Security Agency has been spying on a Baltimore anti-war group, going so far as to document the inflating of protesters' balloons, and intended to deploy units trained to detect weapons of mass destruction
Getting a $500 million deal over the next five years for his satellite show, Stern's paycheck continues to grow as a result of Sirius exceeding its subscription targets.
• WSJ Staff - CARLA ANNE ROBBINS and DAVID CRAWFORD
WASHINGTON -- After breaking the seals on its once-secret nuclear facility at Natanz, Iran set the stage for a long-threatened showdown with Europe and the U.S.
President George Bush, shades of Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, claims the right to override any laws, and violate the constitution, because the US is at war. "Terrorists" ("enemies of the state" in Soviet talk) threaten the US, so an
There's been a great deal of speculation over the last several days, particularly in the light of Jack Abramoff's recent guilty pleas, concerning the connection of Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH) to Election Fraud in Ohio, and indeed, vis a vis hi
Any talking heads doubting whether "Gekko Jack" and the Hammer are pals should just watch this circle jerk introduction by Abramoff at the 2002, College Republican Conference.
Jack: Tom Delay is who all of us want to be when we grow
Future space cadets Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have convinced Richard Branson to allow them to be aboard his Virgin Galactic Spaceship which will lift off in 2010.
Payments include $220,000 from Oracle Corp., which won a multibillion-dollar Justice Department contract a month after hiring Ashcroft, the newspaper reported of government filings it examined.
Libertarianism is the political ideology of voluntarism, a commitment to voluntary action in a social context, where no individual or group of individuals can initiate the use of force against others. It is not a monolithic ideological paradigm; rath
Stoked by their surprise victory in Denver, marijuana-legalization advocates are hoping to ride the momentum with statewide ballot initiatives this year in Colorado and Nevada.
New revelations have surfaced regarding the alleged operation of secret prisons in Europe by the CIA, with a Swiss newspaper publishing details of an intercepted message sent by Egyptian officials.
What is the one thing...the one sure thing...the one guaranteed thing that all people, of all generations, in all nations, in all of history have turned to when their governments destroyed their money and the world was on the brink of the "colla
The dollar was mixed Tuesday morning as market participants tried to sort through conflicting signals as to whether China will diversify its currency reserves away from the dollar.
Today's federal government consists of fifteen huge departments, hundreds of agencies, thousands of programs, and millions of employees. It spends 2.4 trillion dollars in a single year. The possibilities for corruption in such an immense and unac
Jack Abramoff was compensating the wives of lawmakers handsomely for jobs requiring them to do not much. Investigators want to know if Abramoff was also trying to win influence with the spouses of congressmen in what investigators privately call the
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 55 year mandatory sentence of 27 year old Weldon Angelos, who had no prior felony convictions. Angelos was in possession of a gun, that he neither brandished, used nor displayed, when he conducted 3 marij