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The former mayor of a tiny coal town who prosecutors say masterminded a scheme to buy votes with beer, cigarettes and even pork rinds, pleaded guilty to 243 felonies, including vote-rigging and corruption....could get up to 21 months in prison
People for the American Way just released the following update on the latest goings on in the FL-13 battle where their lawsuit has now been joined by the court with Democratic candidate Christine Jennings own suit. Both are calling for a revote.
Mexico's new President Felipe Calderon reached out to opponents hours after fistfights erupted in Congress between his supporters and lawmakers seeking to thwart his inauguration.
As we search for extraterrestrial life, Earth in some sense always provides our framework. The data indicate that life does in fact exist on this planet, and it existed here sometime before about 3.5 billion years ago.
A shareholder lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard for attempting to spy on board members and reporters has been expanded to include charges of insider stock trading.
"We've now seen 11 and possibly 12 lunar impacts since we started monitoring the Moon one year ago," said Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "That's about four times more hits than our computer models
A "moderate" El Nino current is now established in the Pacific basin, triggering a serious drought in Australia, heavy rain in East Africa and heralding other severe weather conditions over coming months, the UN's weather agency has sai
Raffaela La Pasta is not sure but thinks that the still half-buried skeleton she is unearthing in downtown Rome is female, and at least 1,600-years-old. A leg-bone is sticking up through the dirt and the outline of the skull is just visible, even
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. as part of a probe into potential antitrust violations involving graphics chips, helping to send shares in the companies lower.
The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a challenge can go forward arguing that President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative violates the constitutional requirement on church-state separation.
Texas Rep. Silvestre Reyes, an Iraq war opponent, will become chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee when Democrats take control of Congress in January, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi said.
It was a high school prank that surely got laughs but quickly drew the ire of a Juneau, Alaska, principal. Joseph Frederick's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner also inspired a constitutional argument, and the Supreme Court will decide whether
Hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah-led protesters rallied on Friday at the doorstep of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to force the resignation of his U.S.-backed government. "We want a clean government," one banner read. "Siniora out,
Scotland Yard has been passed copies of two letters apparently penned in jail by former Russian intelligence officer Mikhail Trepashkin, in one of which Mr Litvinenko is warned that both he and his family are at risk.
A former Russian security service officer said he warned a former KGB agent who was fatally poisoned in London about a government-sponsored death squad that intended to kill him and other Kremlin opponents.
The commander of coalition forces in northern Iraq said that 4 Iraqi army divisions in his area will be put under Baghdad's control by next March, just the kind of transfer that a U.S. study commission reportedly is ready to embrace.
A continued free fall in the housing market and an unexpectedly sharp slowdown in manufacturing are raising doubts about the strength of the economy — and the direction of Federal Reserve policy. Construction activity in October plunged a sharp 1%
Americans remain ignorant to 35% devaluation of their bank savings as skids are greased for introduction of Amero, North American Union
Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Co
U.S. officials are increasingly concerned that their reconciliation efforts may even have backfired, alienating the Shiite majority and leaving the United States vulnerable to having no allies in Iraq, according to sources familiar with the State Dep
Prosecutors must show the two lobbyists charged under espionage laws knew that the disclosure of the material they allegedly passed to reporters and Israeli officials would hurt the United States. [Israel lobby gets judges too.]
So far from God, so close to the United States, runs the classic Mexican complaint. These days virtually everyone in Latin America seems to believe that the U.S. is too close. The average Central or South American politician wants an embrace by Washi
The Sunday after the election, my preacher and I had a brief conversation in the hallway. He safely assumed that I was among those who were, as he joked, "cursing" the Democratic takeover of Congress.
The U.S. government warned American private financial services on Thursday of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday. [Friday would be the worst day.]
The Federal Election Commission took steps to encourage politicians and contributors to report their own possible violations of campaign finance laws by offering them significantly reduced fines.
The United States has been exaggerating China's nuclear clout in a process that could lock the two into a Cold War-style arms race, two arms-control advocacy groups said.
Vietnamese scientists have successfully cloned small pigs and monkeys, the Vietnam Biotechnology Institute said according to state media reports.
Police and prosecutors are worried that a Web site claiming to identify more than 4,000 informants and undercover agents will cripple investigations and hang targets on witnesses.
Bell Labs was founded in 1925 as the research arm of AT&T's national telephone business. Sixty years later, it was spun off as part of Lucent Technologies Inc., which on Thursday was acquired by Paris-based Alcatel SA.
The Center for Reproductive Rights subpoenaed the White House in mid-November as part of its lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration. It wants the White House documents to determine whether it interfered with the FDA's handling of a req
