Naor Gilon, the head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, linked to the Pentagon analyst charged with passing classified information to unauthorized personnel, will leave his post during the summer.
A secret US program to monitor millions of international financial transactions for terrorist links violated European law and will have to be changed, the Belgian government said. "SWIFT has, for years, secretly and systematically transferred ma
“Si estuviera en mi decidir el tener gobiernos sin prensa, o prensa sin gobiernos. Sin dudarlo decidiría por los segundo. Cuando la prensa sea libre y todos puedan leer, el país estará seguro”
Vietnam will not join the WTO before the APEC Summit meeting to be held in Hanoi in November at any cost, said a senior official. Vietnam will not accept irrational committments and requirements, (you mean the Communists understand free trade)
For at least the last three decades, conservative Christians (known
collectively as the Religious Right), have allowed themselves to become
wedded to Republican politicians.
Former Minnesota Governor, actor and wrestling star Jesse Ventura has publicly questioned the official version of events behind 9/11 and gone further than ever before in citing Operation Northwoods and the Gulf of Tonkin as examples
"Christians and libertarians should be allies against the state, not necessarily in terms of political parties or alliances, but in terms of supporting a basic anti-state message."
The bill immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year. It gives the president a dominant but not exclusive role in setting the rule
“Mainstream media is damaging our minds with lies and distortions that are intended to confuse and distract us from the truth, that there are many things wrong with this country,” he said. - by Megan Dobransky for The College Times
Borat, the fictional TV reporter from Kazakhstan, may have gotten under the skin of Kazakh officials but on Thursday he couldn't get past the gates of the White House.
Secret Service agents turned away British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in ch
A Congressional report due out tomorrow is expected to show now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates had far more extensive contacts with the White House than President Bush's staff ever acknowledged.
The House approved a bill that would grant legal status to President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program with new restrictions. Republicans called it a test before the election of whether Democrats want to fight or coddle terrorists.
The Senate endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation that Republicans intend to use on the campaign trail to assert their toughness on terrorism.
Veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward says the Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq. He also reveals key intelligence that predicts the insurgency will grow worse next
The similarity between practices used by the Khymer Rouge and those currently being debated by Congress isn't a coincidence. As has been amply documented many of the "enhanced techniques" came to the CIA and military interrogators via t
In another victory for the entertainment industry, a federal judge has ruled that the Morpheus file-sharing software encourages millions of users to share music, movies and other works without authorization.
The US economy downshifted to a 2.6% expansion pace in the second quarter, the government said in its final estimate of growth, revising down a previous estimate of 2.9%. The report confirmed a sharp cooling from the first quarter,
Americans may hate politicians, but they love their cars. And from the look of it, a drop in gasoline prices may have made them like President George W. Bush and incumbent Republicans a little better.
But in his one shot this year at getting out of here, the detainee could not produce letters from his family that he wanted to submit as evidence. They were seized by the military, along with thousands of other documents from detainees, as it investi
A judge agreed to again put off prison for disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former business partner, but the delays were shorter than what lawyers on both sides sought.
Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., the U.S. unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG said that at least three out of four patients given an experimental multiple sclerosis treatment were free of relapses for more than two years.
The report calls for reining in tuition, improving access and graduation rates, and doing more to demonstrate the value of higher education. Asking Congress, state governments, and both public and private universities to work together to start making
The federal judge who ordered a halt to the Bush administration's program of domestic wiretapping allowed the surveillance to continue for a week to allow an appeals court to weigh in on an issue expected to end up with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The parasitic dodder plant doesn't have a nose, but it knows how to sniff out its prey. The dodder attacks such plants as tomatoes, carrots, onions, citrus trees, cranberries, alfalfa and even flowers, and is a problem for farmers because chemica
The fugitive terror chief said experts in the fields of "chemistry, physics, electronics, media and all other sciences especially nuclear scientists and explosives experts" should join his group's jihad, or holy war, against the West.
A father may teach his young daughter about his religious belief in polygamy - despite his ex-wife's objections, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said. Stanley Shepp has a constitutional right to express his beliefs about plural marriages and multi
Between the present Pope, Benedict XVI, and the present Emperor, George Bush II, there exists a wonderful harmony. Last week's speech by the Pope, which aroused a world-wide storm, went well with Bush's crusade against "Islamofascism
It took top cops in Hillsborough County, Florida over two years & $6,0000 in taxpayer funds for 92 lap dances, drinks and tips to investigate allegations of nudity and liquor law violations at an adult bikini bar. Do you feel safer yet?
A San Antonio police officer has been pulled from a teaching job after several witnesses say he roughed up a sixth grader at Garner Middle School. The officer was supposed to be teaching the kids about non-violence.