United Nations military observers left Damascus on Monday after a four-month mission in which they became helpless spectators of Syria's spiraling conflict, instead of monitoring a ceasefire between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels.
A group of House Republicans visiting Israel as part of an official Congressional delegation enjoyed a late night of drinking at the Sea of Galilee that included a little skinny dipping in the place where the Bible says Jesus walked on water.
The science of voting and elections is complex and full of diabolical and paradoxical aspects. While is is obvious that one person's vote will have no significant impact on the election results, that person might still have reasons to vote.
I'm wondering where the D.O.J.is on this, as I understand, corruption has been and is being committed, You can take a pile of dirt and pour it out in a pile on the floor, the floor is dirty,
WHY! is this town so full of dirt and no one is finding en
Murray County Chief Magistrate Judge Bryant Cochran has resigned, ending a judicial ethics investigation that included the judge’s practice of distributing pre-signed, blank arrest and search warrants to local law enforcement officers.
New Zealand revealed Monday it was considering an early withdrawal from Afghanistan after three of its soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in Bamiyan province.
Prime Minister John Key insisted the plan to pull out early
Lia Tarachansky of The Real News reports that many Israelis are growing concerned over the potential costs of a war with Iran — not in terms of lives or national prestige, but as measured in their taxes and in the prices they pay for basic goods.
The most commonly used drug testing methods for detecting marijuana exposure are unreliable when used on infant babies and “should not be reported.” Even the more targeted THC assay show a “significantly higher” false-positive results
Deep in the West Virginia woods, in a small cabin powered by the sun and the wind, a bespectacled, white-haired man is giving a video tour of his basement, describing techniques for the long-term preservation of food in case of “an emergency.”
Our telescopes are cubes half-a-meter on a side and will cost around $1 million each. When they are developed to a high level of performance, we want to print them en masse on an assembly line. They will have mind-blowing imaging capability.
The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician was given a suspended death sentence after confessing to killing a British businessman by poisoning him with cyanide in a case that rocked the country’s top political leadership.
When his plane was finally shot down, Dad used the .45 for its intended purpose, and then tossed it out into the slipstream with the broken bombsight. He knew that one man, armed with a single handgun, wasn't about to open up another front in the Ger
Unless you've been doing wall paintings in a Spanish cave, you'll be aware that earlier this year, the federal Department of Homeland Security has ordered 450,000,000 rounds of hollowpoint .40 S&W pistol ammunition. Look at that number again: four hu
They came to Washington DC from cities and small towns, from near and far, to break the law. Their crime? Selling raw milk and lemonade without permits nor licenses. Fortunately, the civil disobedience went well. Unlike last year the police didn't i
A small, flat rock known as Coronation suffered the wrath of Curiosity’s laser when the Mars rover finally fired up its ChemCam instrument and delivered 30 pulses of energy at the rock over a 10-second period.
A majority of adults in the United States consume alcohol, and these drinkers, on average, have four beverages per week, with beer the preferred choice, according to an annual Gallup survey.
Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate. It was a fight that didn't go well for the GOP when President George W. Bu
Marriage may drive a woman to drink, not because she's unhappy but because she's influenced by her husband's alcohol consumption, new research suggests. And men, on average, drink more than women.
Jordan’s information minister says 4 Syrian rockets have fallen on a northern Jordanian border town, slightly wounding a 4-year-old girl. Sameeh Maaytah says the Jordanian girl was treated for shrapnel wounds and then released from the hospital.
"The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful." The USA was facing a choice between re-affirming the "revolutionary values it was founded on" or
More and more Americans are spending their Sundays at megachurches, enormous churches with congregations numbering in the thousands. Despite the size of these churches, members don't get lost in the crowd, new research finds.
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Does society really want extremely private mobile devices if they make life easier for criminals? Apple's newly toughened standards sharpen the focus on that question.