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Under a tough new Fairfax County policy, residents can no longer donate food prepared in their homes or a church kitchen -- be it a tuna casserole, sandwiches or even a batch of cookies -- unless the kitchen is approved by the county, health official
There's already a problem with judges signing off on warrants without much scrutiny. If warrant approval has been reduced to nothing more than a daily task of logging on, browsing affidavits, and clicking a "signature" box, you can see
Looming over the skyline, the embassy has the distinction of being the only big US building project in Iraq that is on time and within budget.
The Act of February 12, 1873 (Sec. 14), establishes "25.8 grains of gold" 900/1000 fine (or 23.22 grains of fine gold), which bears the required stamp and impress. The statute says that this is a dollar.
In an interview with CNBC, a vice president for a prominent London investment firm yesterday urged a move away from the dollar to the "amero," a coming North American currency.
Covey's plantation, where physical and psychological torture were standard, was called Mount Misery. Today Mount Misery is owned by Donald Rumsfeld, the outgoing secretary of defense.
Following is the text of a Nov. 8 memorandum prepared for cabinet-level officials by Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser. The five-page document, classified secret, was read and transcribed by The New York Times.
The government discriminates against blind people by printing money that all looks and feels the same, a federal judge said. U.S. District Judge ordered the Treasury Department to come up with ways for the blind to tell bills apart.
The CIA flew 1,245 secret flights into European airspace, according to a European Parliament draft report. The report is the result of a year-long investigation into secret CIA "extraordinary rendition" flights and prisons in Europe.
NATO has clinched agreement to bolster its troubled mission in Afghanistan by sending more troops and cutting restrictions on forces already there, while admitting that gaps remain.
An excellent tour de force account of the disastrous Bush administration foreign policy in the Middle East
Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged in October by the largest amount in 6 years, in another sign of a slowing economy. The nation's factories are beginning to feel the impact of the slowdown in the overall economy.
The state of Alaska which had been fighting tooth and nail to keep from releasing their database of how voters voted back in 2004, is at it again. Now, despite a court order, the state is refusing to release the new 2006 database, according to a pres
Pentagon officials are considering moving US forces out of the dangerous Sunni-dominated al-Anbar province and join the fight to secure Baghdad. Top Marine in al-Anbar, Col. Peter Devlin, concluded al-Anbar is unwinnable.
Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing. Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home. “I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.
But the worst in his bulky archive of drug-war gore rolled off the presses the day after someone found pieces of what used to be Sauzo's 24-year-old namesake. A hit man had decapitated Sauzo's son, then chopped off his arms and legs.
The American forces can neither crush the insurgency in western Iraq nor counter the rising popularity of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in the area, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a secret Marine Corps intelligence report.
The confidential informant on whose word Atlanta police raided the house of an 88-year-old woman is now saying he never purchased drugs from her house and was told by police to lie and say he did.
The death of Malachi Ritscher was reported by a local television station as just another frustration for commuters driving into Chicago one morning when police were told that a statue was burning and slowing-up traffic along the expressway.
Government does not work very well because turning something like the determination of wages, the cost of health care, what ought to be taught to children, or the amount of money one can save for his future transforms those and many other decisions f
A Louisiana federal judge has ruled many New Orleans homeowners whose houses sustained water damage after Hurricane Katrina are not excluded from coverage under their insurance policies, a judgment that represents a loss for the insurance industry.
U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that part of the law used to freeze the assets of terrorist organizations, violated the Constitution because it put no apparent limit on the president's powers to place groups on that list.
Under pressure from opponents of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's elections council has adopted safeguards for the country's electronic voting machines to prevent tampering in Sunday's election — conditions so strict that experts say th
The strangely intricate wrinkles and grooves around the nostrils of many bats apparently could help them "see" in the dark by focusing their sonar, scientists in China have found. The discovery could help scientists improve sonar and rad
Analysis of ancient sediment taken from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean support the view that the dinosaurs' extinction was caused by a single rogue meteor striking Earth, and not by multiple space rock impacts, a new study finds.
Iran needs to do more than simply comply with its legal obligations if it wants to gain international trust about its nuclear ambitions, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said. Mohamed ElBaradei's forthright message, delivered at the end
Just weeks before Election Day, Jen and Andrew Fitzgibbon got a [taxpayer funded] card from Gov. Rod Blagojevich congratulating them on the birth of their new baby. The only problem was that the Fitzgibbons' youngest daughter, Lydia, wasn't s
Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi rejected a bid by a lawmaker earlier ousted as a federal judge on corruption charges to head a congressional panel that helps protect America's security.
Ranching magnate Bill Moody's vast holdings spread across three Texas counties and include 35 miles of frontage along the Rio Grande, where thousands of illegal immigrants and smugglers have crossed from Mexico into the USA. They have worn paths
Newt Gingrich said a "different set of rules" may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message. The country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the th
