Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice
On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-
President Bush signed into law a new set of sanctions targeting foreign countries that continue nuclear cooperation with Iran and sell it advanced weaponry.
This is the war they do not want you to see: but while the media are kept from the action, emails and videophone images from the troops tell a terrifyng story.
BRITISH troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people.
Over the past two months British soldiers have come under sustained attack defending a remo
The American Ambassador to Baghdad was reviewing its funding programs in the light of legislation, known as the Leahy Law, that forbids the financing of foreign security forces that commit "gross violations of human rights".
Can Nike and this growing suburb ever be good neighbors again? After the "smoking gun?" Running up a legal bill of about $1.1 million over a file less than a couple dozen pages thick? And the judge finding the city in contempt?
5 years after anthrax attacks left 5 dead, sickened 17 and panicked the country, the nearly $1 billion contract awarded by the U.S. to a tiny San Francisco Bay Area biotechnology company is plagued with misfortune and delays.
U.S. researchers said they had found a more efficient way to clone mice, and said their experiment solved a basic question about cloning science -- whether it truly is possible to clone animals from mature cells.
Scientists in Japan have identified a molecule responsible for making mammals feel full, a discovery that could lead to new ways to treat obesity in humans.
"There were lots of stupid questions and accusations with no proof," said the 56-year-old veteran of combat against the Soviet occupation. He insists he was there only because Afghan rivals lied about him to the U.S. Army.
Many academic scholars view Fascism as a kind of corporatism in which the interests of corporations and government become one in the same. After reading the following account, Americans will inevitably seek to find a label to adequately describe the
With profits from this spring's record opium crop fueling a broad Taliban offensive, Afghan authorities say they are considering a once unthinkable way to deal with the scourge: spraying poppy fields with herbicide.
Under post-September 11 arrangements, European airlines supply US authorities with information on passengers entering the US including their name, address, payment details and telephone numbers. An EU court struck down the existing deal
Officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at the man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy, according to an autopsy and records released by the sheriff's office. Suspected of fatally shooting the deputy, he was hit 68 times by the SWAT team m
GOP leaders admit their offices have known for months that a Florida Republican congressman was sending inappropriate e-mails to a boy who had worked as a page in the House of Representatives.
"We have a technology, a gene, that gives you a plant that's drought resistant. The system that we've developed switches on only during drought. During normal growth, if a plant's got water, the system is switched off, as if the gene
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is aligning himself with Democrats in hopes of enhancing his political legacy through an effort to improve minority health care. The bill authorizes $500 million to reduce disease rates among racial and ethnic minori
A Kurdish guerrilla group declared a unilateral cease-fire in its more than 20-year fight for autonomy in Turkey's southeast, but said it would not immediately give up its weapons.
Keep those sugarless treats out of Fido's reach.
Veterinarians warned that a commonly used sweetener might cause liver failure in dogs, and perhaps even kill them.
China has not been shy about its preference to see greater respect in Security Council deliberations for nation-states' rights, and less attention to individuals' universal rights - ideas implicit in Chávez's discourse.
Demanding that a war be stopped is serious business. I would have thought making the decision to initiate that war would have been considered the same. What I see exhibited by our leaders everyday is far from serious behavior.
The DD(X) program focused on developing 10 [initially 11] key Engineering Development Models (EDM) to demonstrate technologies critical to future warships. (NeoCons love arms races,... here we go again)
University of Texas constitutional law professor Sanford V. Levinson described the bill as the mark of a "banana republic." Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh said that "...it's not clear that most of the members (Congress) understan
China has secretly fired poweful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" the senstive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday. The hitherto unreported attacks have been secret by the Bush adminstrati
The Southwest's reclusive Gila monster has an unlikely new set of fans: people who are controlling their type 2 diabetes - and losing weight - with a non-insulin prescription drug derived from one of the lizard's proteins.
[Crops rotting, prices up] "We're seeing the wolf at the door," said John McClung, president of the Texas Produce Association, referring to worsening shortages reported by many of the 300 growers, shippers and importers his organization
With Fox's 10th anniversary next week, a series of 10-year contracts with providers will be expiring. Fox says the systems pay roughly 25 cents per subscriber each month to carry its programming. Given the network's success in the ratings,(