The Pentagon notified U.S. lawmakers about the possible sale to Iraq of up to $500 million in helicopters, weapons and vehicles and up to $250 million in logistics support for those systems. [Guess who is going to pay for it?]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took aim at U.S. policies in Iraq and Lebanon, and accused Washington of abusing its power in the U.N. Security Council to punish others while protecting its own interests and allies.
Tribal leaders have cooperated with Border Patrol enforcement, but they promised to fight the building of a fence out of environmental and cultural concerns.
The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key widely available on the Internet.
For some time now we've known about the Bush administration's outsourcing of torture to foreign dictatorships. But for the first time we can see the whole process vividly detailed by a Western governmental source.
Glory and service to country seem to drive the students taking private English lessons in one of the many foreign language schools that have opened here since the Taliban fell. They aspire to be doctors, engineers, and journalists - to elevate themse
An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, publishers announced. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on "The Children of Hurin," an epic tale h
Hilda Shlick thought she lost nearly all her family in the Holocaust until her Internet-savvy grandsons located her 81-year-old brother in Canada.
"After 65 years, I have found the sister who I love," Simon Glasberg said Monday in heavil
The United States is unlikely to begin cutting its troops in Iraq until at least mid-2007 as they try to stop sectarian violence from degenerating into civil war, a senior general said.
Thailand's army chief vowed to clean up the country's political landscape and return "power to the people" as soon as possible after a bloodless coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Bush told Iranians their greatest obstacle "is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons."
Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, a Republican in a tight re-election race, flew on a private plane chartered by Vonage Holdings Corp. just days after he pushed legislation that the company has advocated for more than a year.
Amid falling gas prices and a two-week drive to highlight his administration's efforts to fight terrorism, President Bush's approval rating has risen to 44% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. That's his highest rating in a year.
The United States and Israel have put pressure on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas not to cut a deal with a Hamas government that refuses to renounce violence and recognize Israel.
Israel scattered at least 350,000 unexploded cluster bomblets on south Lebanon in its war with Hizbollah, mostly when the conflict was all but over, leaving a deadly legacy for civilians, U.N. officials said.
Mounted police charged bottle-hurling protesters outside Socialist party headquarters, another night of violence touched off by the prime minister's leaked admission that his government had repeatedly lied to the public about the economy.
Bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, arrested last week as a fugitive from Mexican authorities, is turning his legal predicament into a special edition of his hit cable TV show on the A&E channel this week.
The Student Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR 5295) is a sloppily written bill that would require any school receiving federal funding to adopt policies allowing teachers and school officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student, at
A 26 minute video interviewing 2 people who were an unfortunate part of the CIA rendition program. Also includes, Michael Scheuer, who was in charge of Alec Station, and the person who started this program.
Time after time, whenever one of these killers was shot in a hold-up and needed medical attention, they sought out a creature who was considered one of the lowest dregs of society - an abortion doctor.
If the document is approved, Russia will be able to interfere in border conflicts, turn a blind eye on the proleferation of nuclear weapons and fight with potential enemies (the USA and NATO) and international terrorism. (Geez, where did they get th
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest employer, is planning to launch a voter registration and education campaign this fall targeted at its 1.3 million employees in an effort to combat growing criticism from Democrats and labor unions.
After 5 years, the US-led international reconstruction mission has failed Afghanistan and its people. An all-military approach and aggressive poppy crop eradication strategies led by the US and the UK have triggered a hunger crisis and accelerated t
The Los Angeles Times recently reported that "the Internal Revenue Service ordered a liberal Pasadena parish to turn over all the documents and e-mails it produced during the 2004 election year with references to political candidates.
NASA delayed the planned landing of space shuttle Atlantis by at least a day after engineers spotted an object that may have accidentally flown out of its cargo bay. "We were wondering if we had to hire some more air traffic controllers for the
The Thai military has declared launch of a coup, Thai military TV Five reported Tuesday night.
Over a dozen tanks blocked roads around Thailand's government headquarters in Bangkok, witnesses said.
Just check out the case study of the apartments, the number of bedrooms, and the cost. Amazing that a 1 bedroom apartment, in some cases, cost 3 or 4 times more than a 2 or 3-bedroom apartment.
For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of the planned attacks of buildings inside the US and how operatives were directed to carry them out. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a
Anti-abortion activists say they've got another arrow in their quiver to use against what they believe is the murder of unborn babies: A handshake with a real-estate agent. They've discovered that one of the best ways to shut down an aborti
YouTube and Warner Music, the 4th largest-biggest record company, said the pact would help Warner distribute music videos, behind-the-scenes footage, artist interviews and orignal programming. The companies said users of the San Mateo, CA based