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Even Democrats on the committee are saying Gates is a shoo-in barring an unexpected disclosure. But the likelihood of such a disclosure seems nil, with Gates the sole witness at his hearing.
In an effort to set the stage for selling their withdrawal policy to the American people, both Democrats and Republicans are now blaming the Iraqis for not being able to govern themselves peacefully.
George Bush insisted there would be no "graceful exit" or withdrawal from Iraq. The Times, said that, "despite a Democratic election victory that was strongly based on antiwar sentiment, the idea of a withdrawal seems to be fading as a
During last summer's Israeli-Hezbollah war, Condi Rice assured us we were witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Condi may be right. That new Middle East appears to be one in which US influence is waning and America is on th
A Georgia state senator's Colombia-born wife who went into hiding rather than face deportation turned herself in and was released when an immigration judge agreed to reopen her case.
Italian prosecutors asked a judge to order CIA agents and Italian spies to stand trial on charges of kidnapping a terrorism suspect and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.
In an interview with nationally syndicated radio talk show host Alex Jones, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas recently discussed President Bush's support for the Military Commissions Act.
Officials at Jonesboro Middle School say police tasered an 11-year-old student Wednesday 'as a last resort' (yeah right). The incident immediately prompted an internal police investigation.
Jonathan Hutto graduated from Howard Univ. with a résumé of social activism. Hutto enlisted in the Navy. The Navy didn't know it then, but they know it now: They had a sailor strongly opposed to the Iraq war.
Homeland Security has ordered that all travelers between the USA, Canada, Mexico, or other countries in the Western Hemisphere, where passports weren’t previously required, will have to present valid passports to enter or leave the USA by air or sea,
Fiji's military commander said that he had seized control of the country, dismissed the elected prime minister and appointed an interim replacement.
The beneficiaries of [Rice's] failure will be Vice President Dick Cheney and other hardliners, who have been anticipating that such a development would help them persuade President Bush to begin planning for an air attack on Iran.
President George Bush meets with Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the turbaned leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite fundamentalist party that is strongly tied to Iran. In so doing, the president is meeting with someone who,
A powerful Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader urged the Bush administration to step up military attacks against Sunni insurgents and al-Qaida terrorists in his country, saying the US' failure to take tougher action against the 2 groups has brought Iraq t
A fight over a new Wal-Mart is turning into a battle over free speech after opponents were told to put down their signs and take off their buttons and T-shirts in city hall last week.
Technical Mujahid, a 64-page electronic magazine, began circulating last week on jihadist discussion forums. The purpose is "to help prevent acts of aggression against Muslims [in cyberspace], and to assist the mujahideen in their efforts,"
The State Department rejected an offer of talks with Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, saying it saw no point in a dialogue with what it called the Caribbean island's "dictator-in-waiting." [Bush's brain trust foreign policy
Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to fast-track efforts to boost the federal minimum wage and could seek to bring a bill directly to the House floor in January. The new Democrat-controlled 110th Congress
The Israeli government has approved the creation of a new ministry for strategic affairs, to be headed by a controversial ultra-nationalist and deal mainly with Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Tens of thousands of pro-Syrian protesters pressed on with a sit-in aimed at ousting Lebanon's Western-backed government as the country's political crisis showed no sign of easing.
North Korea has offered Russia exclusive rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for support at the stalled talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Russia wants to enrich uranium and sell as nuclear fuel to China and Vietnam,
Tony Blair is to meet President Bush in Washington to try to forge a joint plan for a phased withdrawal of British and US troops from Iraq, starting next spring. Sources in London say the two men will discuss how to co-ordinate policy statements on I
The gulf's 2 military powers, Sunni-Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, are lining up behind their warring religious brethren in Iraq in a potentially explosive showdown, as expectations grow that America is preparing a pull-out of its troops.
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The only issues worth pondering, therefore, are how low prices might fall and/or how long the bust might last. Without trying to be too specific, we'd guess that prices will fall a lot and/or that the bust will last a long time...
The emergence of humans in the universe might not tell us anything concerning the fundamental constants of nature as scientists have speculated, new theoretical findings argue.
Neanderthals suffered periods of starvation and may have supplemented their diet through cannibalism, according to a study of remains from northwest Spain. Paleobiologists studied samples from eight 43,000-year-old Neanderthal skeletons
Keep track of important dates with the Official 2007 RNC Calendar filled with full-color photographs of President Bush, the First Lady, Vice President Cheney and Lynn Cheney.
A recent study published by the National Academy of Sciences cast doubt on the reality of Gulf War Syndrome as a specific disease or syndrome. About 60,000 of the nearly 700,000 Gulf War veterans began reporting health problems in the months and year
Famed paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is giving no quarter to powerful evangelical church leaders who are pressing Kenya's national museum to relegate to a back room its world-famous collection of hominid fossils showing the evolution of human
