When disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley announced he was entering rehab for treatment of alcoholism and "other behavioral problems," some of those who have known him for years were shocked and suspicious, saying they rarely saw him drink.
[then he should know better] Disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley said through his lawyer that he was sexually abused by a clergyman as a teenager, but accepts full responsibility for sending salacious computer messages to teenage male pages.
Online DVD rental company Netflix Inc on Sunday announced that it would pay $1 million to the first person to develop software to improve the accuracy of Netflix's movie recommendation system by 10 percent.
Housing prices, slumping after a five-year boom, are projected to decline in more than 100 of the nation's metropolitan areas, with the Northeast, Florida and California among the areas hardest hit.
Tough security measures at U.S. airports are putting potential visitors off visiting the United States, the head of the World Travel and Tourism Council said.
Rafe Banks, a lawyer in Georgia, got involved in a nasty dispute with a client over how to defend him on a drunken-driving charge. The client, David Milum, fired Banks and demanded that the lawyer refund a $3,000 fee. Banks refused.
A review of White House records has determined that the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda. Records show the Sept. 11 commission was informed about the meeting
A Golden man is suing a Secret Service agent who arrested him after he made a caustic comment to Vice President Dick Cheney on a sidewalk in Beaver Creek last June.
The Daily Show provided full team coverage of the Foley scandal. Jon Stewart lampoons ABC reporter Brian Ross for his flat newsman-style reading of the explicit sexual messages. Samantha Bee on what it takes to be a Congressional page.
It boasts, "Don't vote until you know where the candidates stand on the issues". I just found this to be very humorous, since most people who belong to AARP depend upon the government for their living. I will not join these people eve
It's an Achilles' heel of HIV therapy. The AIDS virus can sneak into the brain to cause dementia, despite today's best medicines. Now scientists are beginning to test drugs that may protect against the memory loss and other symptons of
While President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is busy running a high-voltage campaign against the US and its policies, Iranians are wondering whether he will ever make good on election promises to crack down on corruption and distribute Iran's vast oil reve
Attorneys for 25 men being held in Afghanistan launched a pre-emptive strike Monday against President Bush's plan to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects. Court documents filed Monday demand that the men be released or charged
This maybe a load of horse puckey, but then again, a similliar scenrio took place in advance of the 9/11 attacks. Contain links to specific companies, and the volume of put options placed on those companies. You have been warned.
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has disclosed that Omar Sheikh, who kidnapped and murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl and is now facing the death penalty, was actually the British secret agency MI6's agent
For insurance agent Steve Adams, 51, the resentment began 2 years ago. As he worried whether his stagnant 401 (k) account would be adequate for retirement, his wife's employer ended her pension plan, forcing her to rely on a 401 (k) as well.
(Stu Krone warned us at the Summit last November.) Here's a list of reasons to get rid of your hell phone. Yeah, it might be a little inconvient, but what's more important, inconvienece, or one's privacy.
Juliette Piesley, 39, had changed the battery in her electronic key fob but was than unable to start her car. When AA patrolman Kevin Gorman arrived at the scence in Addleston, Surrey, he found its immoiliser chip was missing.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once. Either he was grossly negligent for not taking the red flags fully into account and ordering a swift investigation, for not even remembering the order of e
Years before sexually explicit electronic messages sent by Rep. Mark Foley to teenage House pages became public last week, some on Capitol Hill say, the Florida Republican was known to have a special interest in younger men.
Despite denying today that he had any knowledge of the instant message conversations that resulted in Mark Foley’s resignation from Congress, House Speaker Dennis Hastert is being called on to resign by liberals and conservatives alike.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
[But she can't remember] A review of White House records has determined that the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spo
McAfee, Symantec and other security software companies argue Microsoft's new Vista operating system will make it more difficult to protect customers because for the first time, they have been denied access to the core of the operating system.
Online gambling firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.
Arlen Specter, zeroed in on the real issue, however, when he said the bill would set us back 800 years by repealing the habeas corpus protections against arbitrary arrest and jailings – and then went ahead and voted for it, anyway.
"While Iran's rights under the NPT have continued to be grossly and systematically violated, Iran nevertheless continued diligently to comply with all its obligations under the Treaty. …
Ten years after the Military Commissions Act of 2006, they came for Bobby Jaffar and his family. Officers from a Joint Terrorism Task Force, clad in Kevlar and wielding assault rifles, didn't knock: They cracked the door down. Ten-year old Bobby