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President Bush has once again decreed that his personal pen is the highest law of the land. In a statement issued on October 4, 2006, he announced that he would ignore many provisions of the Homeland Security appropriations act he signed earlier in t
For months, soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade fought in riverside towns of western Iraq, to clamp off the flow of foreign fighters and suicide bombers said terrorizing Baghdad. Now, these same soldiers sent to Baghdad
Russia's defense minister said that North Korea's nuclear test was equivalent to 5,000 –15,000 tons of TNT. Far greater than the force given by South Korea's geological institute, which estimated it at just 550 tons of TNT.
[Middle East domino theory] "Iran will follow very carefully what happens in the UN Security Council after the North Korean test. If the UN is not able to act forcefully, then Iran will think the path is clear to act with impunity."
Sex, lies and power games are just the latest symptoms of a Republican Party that has strayed from its ideals.
Visitors to the Vatican soon will be able to descend into an ancient world of the dead, a newly unveiled necropolis that was a burial place for the rich and not-so-affluent during Roman imperial rule.
Polar Rose is a new search engine now being tested that will allow you to find anyone in any photo on any site. Type in the name of a person you know, and find pictures of that person all over the web, on sites like MySpace or blog pages using face-r
Icicles typically form on days when the outdoor air temperature is subfreezing but sunshine warms and melts some snow or ice. As it drips off your roof, a water droplet freezes when it loses its heat to the cold air.
They wouldn't win any beauty contests, but naked mole-rats would take home the crown for longevity. Mole-rats long outlive similar-sized rodents. They're known to approach age 30.
Adhesive bandages might become a thing of the past, thanks to researchers at the MIT and Hong Kong University who have developed a simple biodegradable liquid that can stop bleeding in rodents within seconds.
Satellite observations have confirmed how a certain type of star explosion occurs and revealed a previously unknown stage of radiation release during the stellar burst. Using NASA's Swift satellite, astronomers observed 24 supernovas shortly afte
The closest planet outside our solar system orbits a young Sun-like star only 10.5 light years away—so close that telescopes might soon be able to snap pictures of it, new observations confirm.
Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like a pill. The newly proposed shape could be caused by a magnetic field that pervades the entire cosmos or defects in the fabric of space and time, resear
A Capitol Hill sex scandal has reinforced public doubts about Republican leadership and pushed Democrats to a huge lead in the race for control of Congress four weeks before Election Day, the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
North Korea came under international condemnation today after boasting that it had tested a nuclear weapon, with strong criticism even from its allies, but there were doubts in the intelligence community about the strength of the device.
• 75% say the GOP mishandled the Mark Foley matter • 52% think House Speaker Dennis Hastert should resign • 31 % believe Hastert should keep his post • Congressional Republicans are viewed as less ethical than Democrats
North Korea's nuclear test on Monday might have been a "mini-nuke" explosion possibly as low as one kiloton, comparable to some small tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, scientists said.
A 2004 shooting and roadside bomb injury in Iraq left U.S. Marine Sgt. Oscar Canon, 25, with a gaping hole in his thigh the size of a baseball -- a wound should have cost him his leg. Yet today he can walk and run again.
Videos showing anti-immigrant party members mocking the Prophet Muhammad were pulled from Web sites as 2 youths seen in the clips were reported in hiding and the Foreign Ministry warned Danes against traveling to much of the Middle East.
The biggest diamond to be found in 13 years, the "Lesotho Promise," was sold at auction for more than $12 million and is expected to fetch in excess of $20 million once it is cut up. The 603-carat (120 gram) diamond, named after the tiny
A colorful new bird has been discovered in a previously unexplored Andean cloud forest. The bright yellow and red-crowned Yariguies brush-finch was named for the indigenous tribe that once inhabited the mountainous area where it was discovered.
The U.S. Army recruited more than 2,600 soldiers under new lower aptitude standards this year, helping the service beat its goal of 80,000 recruits in the throes of an unpopular war and mounting casualties.
October 6, 1976 - 73 people were killed when terrorists blew up Cubana Flight 455. 30 years later, on Sept. 11, 2006, one of the men who carried out the attack, was sitting in a Texas prison when a federal judge ordered him released from detention.
An anti-Castro militant now in a Texas jail warned the CIA months before the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that fellow exiles were planning such an attack, according to a newly released U.S. government document.
A Pima, Ariz. couple has stepped down as leaders of a church that considers marijuana a sacrament and deity. Dan and Mary Quaintance say pending federal charges against them have made it impossible to properly lead the church.
North Korea's announcement that it has tested a nuclear bomb is set to push Japan to expand its own military and stir debate on what was once the ultimate taboo of developing atomic weapons itself.
China said on Monday it firmly opposed North Korea's nuclear test, denouncing it as "brazen" in unusually strong language, and demanded Pyongyang stop any action that could worsen the situation.
In the name of "fighting terrorism" the Bush administration appears to have succeeded in convincing Congress that to succeed in the "Global War on Terror," the Fourth Amendment must not only yield, but be destroyed.
It is one thing for a renegade executive to crown himself and declare that his wisdom is exceptional enough to designate Americans and foreigners as enemies to be detained indefinitely. It is quite another for 315 members of Congress to go along.
My daughter started high school. Marked by the arrival of a ream of paperwork. Tucked into this package a seemingly innocuous form. Failing to fill it out might result in my daughter being harassed, assaulted, or being fast-tracked to fight in Iraq.
