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Mortgage rates around the country fell this week, with rates on 30-year mortgages dipping to the second lowest level of the year, pushed down by further signs of economic weakness. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported
Facing a mandate to slash toxic mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, 23 states are thumbing their noses at a federal cleanup plan and are instead developing their own far tougher plans to deal with mercury.
Sources said the tape shows Meade appearing to choke the youth, whose hands were handcuffed behind his back. The 16-year-old told investigators that he had been slammed into a wall.
Senators frustrated by scant details on the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program rapped FBI Director Robert Mueller for refusing to show how it has curbed terrorist activity in the United States.
President Bush's nominee to be Pentagon inspector general has withdrawn from consideration, meaning the Defense Department likely will start a second year without its chief watchdog even as the military spends billions a month in Iraq.
Some Israelis were less pleased to hear Robert Gates, the new US secretary of defense, mention what US administrations have long avoided uttering in public -- that the Jewish state has the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal.
Despite some early headlines suggesting that the Iraq Study Group would be calling for a withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq by the beginning of 2008, a look at the fine print suggests otherwise. An exercise in "bait and switch" than
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean called for another election in the race to replace Rep. Katherine Harris, saying the declared Republican winner should not be sworn in until election questions are sorted out.
Israeli Prime Minister Olmert rejected a US advisory group's conclusion that a concerted effort to resolve Israel's conflict with its neighbors will help stabilize the situation in Iraq, saying there is no connection between the 2 issues.
The number of journalists jailed worldwide for their work rose for the second year with Internet bloggers and online reporters now one third of those incarcerated, a U.S.-based media watchdog said.
Specter may have decided to reintroduce the legislation after a recent article in the New Yorker magazine suggested that his desire to retain his powerful committee chairmanship led him to go along with the administration's wishes.
Two police officers are under investigation for allegedly using their influence to skip a long line of shoppers waiting to buy the PlayStation 3 video game system the day it went on sale, authorities said.
The court has taken about 40 percent fewer cases so far this term than last. It now faces noticeable gaps in its calendar. The number of cases the court decided with signed opinions last term, 69, was the lowest since 1953.
Few entrepreneurs have truly disrupted a single industry. Niklas Zennstrom has done it to two — and he has his sights on a third.
Black New Yorkers demanded the police chief's resignation at a rally on Wednesday and unveiled plans to shut down Wall Street after police killed a black man on his wedding day by firing 50 bullets at three unarmed men.
Russian President Putin has signed a law dropping a minimal turnout threshold. Not voting, in the hope that low turnout would make them invalid has happened several times in the past, has been one of the means for people to register discontent.
In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.
One by one, aging survivors from ships sunk 65 years ago in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor laid wreaths under life preserver rings honoring their ships. Nearly 500 survivors bowed their heads at 7:55 a.m., the minute planes began bombing the har
The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline. Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits.
A generation ago, it was impossible to get through the American public school system without learning the oath. Today, though, ask kids if they know the pledge [of allegiance] and you're increasingly likely to get a blank stare.
When America's first Muslim congressman, a Democrat from Minnesota, let it be known he will carry a Koran to his swearing-in ceremony, conservative pundit Dennis Prager called it "an act of hubris ... that undermines American civilization.**
All charges are being dismissed in a high-profile drug roundup in East Texas after it turned out the key informant in the case made up a bunch of information, authorities said Monday.
[Support our trOOPS, don't buy gas.] Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials
In April 2004, Americans were stunned when CBS broadcast those now-notorious photographs from Iraq Abu Ghraib prison, showing hooded Iraqis stripped naked while US soliders stood by smiling. As this scandal grabbed headlines around the globe,
At least 2 months before the IRS mistakenly began paying an estimated $200 million in fraudulent or erroneous 2006 tax season refunds, the agency was warned about potentially "catastrophic" problems in a new comptuer being developed
YOU CAN READ 1,000 profiles of GOP presidential front-runner John McCain without encountering a single paragraph examining his core ideological philosophy. His career is filled with such distracting drama - torture at the Hanoi Hilton,
The RFID Guardian Project is a collaboative project focused upon providing security and privacy in a Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) systems.
Entered By: Jean Carbonneau
Truth in Justice educates about the vulnerabilities in the US criminal justice system that makes criminal conviction of wholly innocent persons possible. By "wholly innocent," we mean a person who had absolutely no part in the crime charged
Entered By: Powell Gammill
Iran's oil export contracts for months have included a clause that allows the nation to seek payment in the euro and other currencies, creating a mechanism for a switch should Iran's policy change, according to traders who buy Iranian oil.
The car will cost 110,000 yuan (13,400 U.S. dollars) but the price will be lowered to about 10,000 U.S. dollars with mass production, the manager said.
