Last night on Fox News, former President George H.W. Bush said the current politcal climate has "gotten so adversarial that it's ugly." Asked to offer an explanation for why there is this "incivility," Bush pinned the blame o
Four banks are set for fee windfalls for their involvement in the acquisitions of both Clear Channel, the US radio owner, and magazine publisher Reader’s Digest by two private equity consortia for a combined total of nearly $30bn (€23.4bn). (Ahhh, WH
A renowned black magic practitioner performed a voodoo ritual to jinx President Bush and his entourage while he was on a brief visit to Indonesia. "I don't hate Americans, but I don't like Bush," said Pamungkas
Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market at age 94. “Milton’s passion for freedom and liberty has influenced more lives than he ever could possibly know,” said Gordon St. Angelo, the foundation’s pres
[elections over] Clear Channel Communications, the nation's biggest radio station owner, said it has agreed to be acquired for about $18.7 billion by an investment group. One of the biggest deals in which a company has been taken private, and sho
The sad reality of the situation is, both parties are prone to only complain when the opposite party is in charge, but when it comes their turn to run the ship of state, they usually wind up doing a bunch of nothing.
Amid the sudden publicity, Rushing ran afoul of the Pentagon. After defending Al Jazeera in an interview with the Village Voice, in which he suggested that the network showed a more realistic image of the war than the American media, he was ordered t
President George Bush has told senior advisers that the US and its allies must make "a last big push" to win the war in Iraq and that instead of beginning a troop withdrawal next year, he may increase US forces by up to 20,000 soldiers, acc
The case of suspected Al Qaeda sympathizer Jose Padilla is raising fundamental questions about whether a US citizen's harsh treatment - and torture - while in US military custody should prevent his later prosecution in the criminal-justice system
A U.S. airstrike in the restive town of Ramadi killed at least 30 people, including women and children, witnesses said. Dr. Barakt Mansi, a Ramadi physician, said many of the bodies arriving at the city's morgue were shattered and charred.
A U.S. Army soldier who is accused of taking part in a plan to rape an Iraqi teenage girl and murder her family in March pleaded guilty today to numerous charges in a military court in Kentucky.
Can you spell "subpoena"? For the Democrats who will soon take charge of the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate, too, here's a preliminary laundry list of some of the things that need doing:
Five months after Islamist militias defeated a coalition of CIA-financed warlords, Somalia appears to be sliding toward a major war that diplomats fear will draw thousands of foreign fighters to the Islamist side and spill into neighboring countries.
As leading Democrats call on President Bush to soon begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq some Republicans are calling on more troops to be deployed. We host a debate on the issue with former Democratic presidential candidate and South Dakota senat
Germany's highest court of appeals will most likely decide on Thursday to order a third trial of a Moroccan friend of the September 11 hijackers on charges of aiding terrorists, his lawyer said.
Elaine Loke is shutting down her dog boutique and will spirit her golden retrievers Hippy and Bally out of Beijing to escape the city's sweeping anti-rabies campaign.
[TNSTAAFL] Pakistan's lower house of Parliament passed amendments to the country's rape laws, ditching the death penalty for extramarital sex and revising a clause on making victims produce four witnesses to prove rape cases.
Mayor Frank Melton, who has taken a hard stand against the city's rising crime rate, pleaded guilty to weapons charges in a deal with prosecutors that lets him stay in office and out of jail. One-time state drug enforcement agency chief, was elec
[not hurting anyone] More than two dozen people, including a professional baseball scout and a high-stakes poker player, were charged Wednesday in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring that rivaled casino sports books.
A crackdown on illegal use of prescription narcotics like the powerful painkiller OxyContin has caused some addicts to switch to heroin, a Justice Department report said.
For a dozen years, the Democratic conservatives known as Blue Dogs have been baying at the moon, ignored by Republicans and tolerated by their more liberal Democratic colleagues. Now, these House lawmakers say that is about to change.
Researchers have found a way to spur the growth of neural stem cells in the brains of adult mice with an eye toward harnessing the brain's innate capacity for repair to help people with diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Scientists for the first time have grown human heart valves using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb — offering a revolutionary approach that may be used to repair defective hearts in the future.
Stem cell injections worked remarkably well at easing symptoms of muscular dystrophy in a group of golden retrievers, a result that experts call a significant step toward treating people.
Astronomers have spotted 20 new star systems in our local solar neighborhood, adding to a rapidly growing list of known stellar residents in our galaxy. The just-discovered stars reside within 33 light years of Earth and include the 23rd and 24th clo