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The federal government and the banking industry will square off next week in the Supreme Court against all 50 states and the District of Columbia in a mortgage-lending case that could have broad implications for business regulation.
Two state-paid lobbying firms under fire for their Republican-leaning work have been asked to show what strategy and staff changes they will make to build bridges with the new Democrat-controlled Congress, the governor's office said.
The Palestinian prime minister said that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
A leading bank transfer service breached European Union data privacy rules by giving US anti-terror investigators access to private financial information, EU monitors found. A growing clash between Brussels and Washington over the impact of anti-terr
A team of suspected terrorists involved in an alleged UK plot to blow up trans-atlantic airliners escaped capture because of interference by the United States. As a direct result of the surprise detention of a suspect, British police and MI5 were for
The NATO alliance, stretched by operations in Afghanistan, should further expand its role to include counter-terrorism, cyber-security and the security of natural resources, according to a classified document to be endorsed by presidents and p
There are over a half-million foreign students at American colleges; the US borders remain wide open; only 6% of the shipping containers are checked; and there is still a generous number of legal immigrants admitted. I offer this as an antidote to th
Heller pled guilty yesterday in an agreement with Los Angeles prosecutors, after his arrest earlier this year on felony charges related to his release of attorney-client privileged documents he obtained while working as a temporary word-processor at
In July 1987, then-Rep. Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim.
Followers of militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took over state run TV Saturday to denouce the Iraqi government, label Sunnis "terrorists" and issue what appeared to many viewers as a call to arms. The 2 hour broadcast from a community
John Roberts, CNN host of "This Week at War", spent a month there,and describes the situation in detail. Finally, a major news outlet is reporting what Dahr Jamail has been reporting for years
If we are to impeach, we must impeach both Bush and Cheney. It will not do any good for us to impeach Bush and have Cheney take the Oval Office and pick someone just as radical as he is. It will also not do any good for us to impeach just Cheney
When African nations began urging the deployment of peacekeepers to Somalia in June to prop up its embattled government, an unlikely nation stepped forward to support their call for action: China, which had long been wary of such interventions
Russia has found the Achilles' heel of the US colossus. In concert with its oil-producing partners and the rising powerhouse economies of the East, Russia is altering the foundations of the current US-led liberal oil-market order, insidiously wo
A top US military commander says the most disciplined, intense attacks from insurgency forces in Iraq to date are being masterminded by an Iraqi Canadian. Abu Abdul Rahman, who reportedly left Canada in 1995 after marrying an Iraqi woman
The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been larg
Leonid Nevzlin, former CEO of the oil giant Yukos and current chairman of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, says the former Russian spy came to Isreal with classifed documents on Yukos which maybe damaging to Russian leaders.
Reflexiones Libertarias
En Mayo de 1911, al abordar el buque que lo llevaría a su exilio, Porfirio Díaz pronunció una premonitora sentencia: “Madero ha soltado el tigre, ahora veremos si puede controlarlo.”
Fairfax County police officials want to suspend for three weeks without pay the officer who accidentally shot and killed Salvatore J. Culosi, an unarmed optometrist being investigated for sports gambling, according to an internal affairs report.
The first four parts of this series have clearly demonstrated that the present set of free trade agreements (e.g., CAFTA, NAFTA) and regional governmental overlays (i.e., North American Union) are illegal and constitute an end run around our constitu
Bush administration scheming to subvert the Venezuelan democratic process and oust Hugo Chavez
If substantial amounts of polonium 210 were used to poison Alexander V. Litvinenko, whoever did it presumably had access to a high-level nuclear laboratory and put himself at some risk carrying out the assassination, experts said.
For all the sound and fury in the last year, the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program continues uninterrupted, with no definitive action by either Congress or the courts on what, if anything, to do about it, and little chance of a breakthro
Russia has begun delivery of Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, a Defense Ministry official said, confirming that Moscow would proceed with arms deals with Tehran in spite of Western criticism.
The euro surged to $1.3086 against the dollar, with many other currencies following suit. Sterling rose almost 1% to $1.93, the yen hit a two-month high and Russia's rouble rose to a seven-year high.
In 1984, Robert Gates, then the No. 2 CIA official, advocated U.S. airstrikes against Nicaragua's pro-Cuban government to reverse what he described as an ineffective U.S. strategy to deal with communist advances in Central America, previously cla
New tactics favored by US commanders in Iraq borrow heavily from the end of another war: Vietnam. The tactics — an influx of military advisors and a speeded-up handover to indigenous forces followed by a gradual U.S. withdrawal — resemble Vietnam at
Despite being urged to do so by Afghan and western counter-narcotics chiefs, British troops are wary of joining the offensive against the drugs trade in Afghanistan.
A bill approved by Congress calls for a federal study to better define the routes taken when more than 15,000 members of the Cherokee, Creek and other tribes were forced from their homes in 1838 to make way for white settlement. Untold thousands of N
The United States government is in contact with Kurds struggling against Iran, a top rebel leader of the anti-Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) told AFP.
