When a commodity or a stock moves fast we tend to get very excited. We hope to discover whether or not it has made some kind of quantum leap or is just part of a long term trend. So what the heck is happening to crude oil? Is this a slip? A corre
Henrietta the chicken was living inconspicuously among 36,000 other birds at Brendle Farms for 18 months -- until a foreman noticed she had four legs. "It's as healthy as the rest," the farm's owner, Mark Brendle, told The Daily Ame
"It does reflect a dissatisfaction with American power and American dominance in the world, a distaste for the war in Iraq, and the general foreign policy of the Bush administration," said a professor of international relations at Columbia
A N. Korean official said his country will soon unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to make plutonium for weapons to pressure Washington into direct talks. N. Korea wanted evidence that Washington would not pursue "regime change" to ous
A growing number of state and local officials are getting cold feet about electronic voting technology, and many are making last-minute efforts to limit or reverse the rollout of new machines in the November elections.
Saudi sources tell TIME that credible reports suggest the fugitive al-Qaeda leader has contracted a serious "water-borne illness," and may have already died.
France and the US said they could not confirm a report that Osama bin Laden had died and France launched a probe into how a secret document containing the claim was leaked. Quoted a document from France's DGSE foreign intelligence service as sayi
France, Pakistan and the United States have said a report Osama bin Laden has died of typhoid was unconfirmed, while Paris was probing how the intelligence brief it was based on came to be leaked.
Russia intends to send troops to Lebanon, but not as part of the UN peacekeeping force there and only if all parties in the region agree, President Vladimir Putin confirmed. Moscow is prepared to send "a smal deployment of engineers to Lebanon,
Having gone through the diplomatic motions with Iran, George W. Bush is shifting toward a military option that carries severe risks for American soldiers in Iraq as well as for long-term US interests around the world. Yet, despite this looming crisi
Require voters to present at the polls a photo identification that also proves citizenship for federal elections beginning in 2010. The only identification that would meet that requirement is a passport, which costs $97 to obtain. Only 25% of America
Denver District Judge Lawrence Manzanares said the secretary of state’s office had violated state law by failing to come up with minimum security standards for the new machines. He said they had done an "abysmal" job in testing the machines
U.S. Justice Department lawyers filed an appeal aimed at blocking a lawsuit by a former Islamic charity that has challenged a Bush administration secret surveillance program.
U.S. District Judge Garr M. King ruled earlier this month that a lawsuit
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he favors creating a new U.S. military command responsible for Africa, as the
Pentagon aims to guard against potential threats to U.S. security arising from the continent.
The largest covert CIA operation since the Cold War is run not only by shadowy government contractors in the darkest corners of Afghanistan, but also by unassuming Americans in places like Dedham, Mass.
Despite the long term warming trend seen around the globe, the oceans have cooled in the last 3 years. The temperature drop, a small fraction of the total warming seen in the last 48 years, suggests that global warming trends can sometimes take littl
An academic has claimed to RAW STORY that a decline in reported rape of 85% in the past 25 years can be tied to an increase in pornography consumption.
In a study for Northwestern University's Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
A prominent Republican who chairs I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's legal defense fund co-hosted a fundraiser for Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is running for re-election as an independent after losing the Democratic primary.
Democrats chose to outsource their policy on military tribunals to John McCain. And McCain did what he's done best the last year: capitulate to Bush. "Senators Snatch Defeat From Jaws of Victory: US to be First Nation to Authorize Violations
A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's billion-dollar-a-year reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.
Former President Bill Clinton, angrily defending his efforts to capture Osama bin Laden, accused the Bush administration of doing far less to stop the al Qaeda leader before the September 11 attacks.
Congressional Democrats were skeptical of a deal negotiated by three hold-out Republican senators to rein in President George W. Bush's program to interrogate and try terrorism suspects.
Researchers have found and raised fragments believed to be from a Soviet steamship that sank more than 70 years ago off the Arctic region of Chukotka, a Russian news agency reported.
[Come on, they gave you lip service...again.] There is concern that some evangelicals, unhappy that the GOP-led Congress and President Bush haven't paid more attention to gay marriage and other "values" issues, may stay home on Election
[How generous.] Americans could buy and carry home prescription drugs from Canada under an agreement reached between Republicans. Customs agents would be prohibited from seizing up to 90-day supplies of prescribed medicines brought across the border.
In a dozen districts across the U.S. heartland, voter unhappiness has imperiled Republicans, setting the stage for what could be the biggest anti-incumbent midterm election since 1994.
Islamist movement Hamas defied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Friday, insisting that a unity government would not recognize Israel and proposed a 10-year truce promptly rejected by the Jewish state.
Israelis say the war that started July 12 with the capture of two of its soldiers has created a much more dangerous enemy as the conflict has deepened ties between Lebanese guerrillas and Palestinian militants each with ties to Syria and Iran.