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Last-minute changes to legislation authorizing the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program have won the support of three balking Senate Republicans, improving the chances that a bill expanding the Bush administration's surv
Afghanistan's president called on Pakistan to close extremist madrasah schools and arrest the people who run them. Hamid Karzai, who has strong US support, has engaged in some sniping with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on countering ter
Pakistan weighed up its chances of surviving a US military assault before joining the "war on terror" after the September 11, 2001 attacks, President Pervez Musharraf says. "The Americans would undoubtedly have taken the opportunity of
Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, has asked for a long-term US military presence in Iraq, saying his country needs two permanent US air bases to deter what he calls foreign interference. The bases would be most welcome in Kurdistan
"We all agree on the need to fight terrorism but we should do so in a way that does not create more terrorism in the future." Rice shot back: "Let's deal with those who are trying to kill us now and leave the future for some other
Like everything associated with the invasion of Iraq, the military board of inquiry into the death of Private Jacob Kovco has become a fiasco laced with lies and cover-up. On April 21, Kovco, aged just 25, became the first Australian soldier to die
Although most identity theft cases in the US involve credit cards and bank accounts, ID thieves are now engaging in medical fraud -- falsely obtaining medical care using someone's stolen identity -- according to today's Los Angeles Times.
A leading Republican senator Monday said he will fight to give detainees the right to challenge their imprisonment, creating a new potential obstacle for legislation President Bush wants in order to try terrorism suspects.
"I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq," retired Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste said. "Mr. Rumsfeld must be replaced
A teacher for more than three decades and an advocate for women's rights, Safia Ama Jan ran an underground school for girls during Taliban rule. On Monday, two men on a motorbike gunned her down as she left for work -- identifying their target de
As illnesses mount from tainted California spinach, so do calls for a crackdown on a loosely regulated, mostly self-policed produce industry that has avoided mandatory controls. Consumer advocates and lawmakers urge tougher rules for fields and pr
The Army is stretched so thin by the war in Iraq that it is again extending the combat tours of thousands of soldiers beyond the promised 12 months — the second such move since August. "The Army is coming to the end of its rope in Iraq," sa
Three members of the Texas National Guard were being held Tuesday in the Maverick County Jail after being accused of firing shots in a residential area while drinking alcohol, a sheriff's official said.
Listening to Charles Goyette this morning about how America is perceived by the rest of the world, I checked to see what % of Americans own passports. How many Americans travel aboard? Maybe if we travled more, we wouldn't be so ignorant
China has built its own version of an ultra-fast, next-generation internet network that promises to reduce the nation's dependency on foreign firms, the state media has said.
The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, has 'lost' over 246 computers containing personal data since 2001 according to the Commerce Dept. The number of people put at risk by this incompetence could not be
The federal government, in this election year when immigration reform has been (inexplicably) one of the hottest issues, is out to prove it can protect our nation's borders -- by invading our nation's chicken processing plants. A nationwide
We have seen America’s president and vice president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, advocating some of the same interrogation techniques the KGB used at the Lubyanka. So did Stalin.
The fugitive Taliban commander Mullah Omar has emerged as the key player behind the movement's controversial peace deal with Pakistan. The Taliban's one-eyed spiritual leader, who has a $10 million price on his head for refusing to hand over
Federal health officials Thursday recommended regular, routine testing for the AIDS virus for all Americans ages 13 to 64, saying an HIV test should be as commone as a cholesterol check. The US Centers for Disease Control Prevention guidelines
Military defense lawyers assailed compromise legislation for interrogating and prosecuting terrorism suspects. Proposed rules would prevent learning whether evidence used was obtained through coercion or torture.
Rumsfeld was slated to be a keynote speaker. About the integration of Canada into the United States. For them to hold this meeting in secret and to make every effort to avoid anybody learning about it, right away you've got to be hugely concerned
WASHINGTON — The Army Corps of Engineers improperly created fake entries in government ledgers to maintain control over hundreds of millions of dollars in spending for the reconstruction of Iraq, according to a federal audit released Friday.
Thurman said that the Iraqi government had failed to supply six Iraqi army battalions - roughly 500 soldiers in each - to reinforce the streets of the capital.
Some things are so disturbing that they are almost impossible to believe. That is why, in the 9/11 enigma, less is more. Until these questions are answered there is no need to establish more doubt. What we have here is solid undisputed evidence that
How the Wall Street Journal gives journalism a bad name.
The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders last month after protesting to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld that the service could not maintain its current level of activity in Iraq plus its other global commitment
The Green Berets of ODA 2021 were on high alert as their convoy rumbled down the winding, rutted road that day in March 2003. The team had been tipped that armed men loyal to the notoriously volatile warlord Pacha Khan Zadran lay in wait around the b
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, under international pressure over wartorn Darfur, said his government would impose a travel ban on U.S. officials that would confine them to the capital Khartoum. Bashir, in his first news conference since
The US Central Intelligence Agency paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over more than 350 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the United States, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly said.
