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Mao must be turning in his grave.... no less than six U.S. Cabinet members are on their way to the Middle Kingdom on Wednesday to beseech, beg, lobby and try to persuade the new mandarins not to sell off their vast reservoir of dollars.
School administrators gave a 4-year-old student an in-school suspension for inappropriately touching a teacher's aide after the pre-kindergartner hugged the woman. [Waco Texas alert]
Fox News aired footage of Iranian students protesting and heckling President Ahmadinejad, then discussed what it might take for the country to "overthrow" its leader. "In the first sign of open dissent since he took office last year
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004, said he is planning another bid because his party isn't pushing hard enough to end the Iraq war.
The media, Congress, and the American public all seem to have accepted something that is patently untrue: namely, that foreign policy is the domain of the president and not Congress. This is absolutely not the case and directly contrary to what our
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away—for free—all the software, computing, storage and network access that Web site builders need to create community collaboration sites.
[It always starts with child molesters.] Attorney General Bob McDonnell will seek legislation requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online identities with the state to help MySpace and other online hangouts more easily block access.
New Orleans area U.S. Rep. William Jefferson won a ninth term to Congress in a surprising landslide on Saturday as loyal black voters shrugged off a federal bribery investigation into $90,000 found in his freezer. Jefferson defeated fellow black Demo
It has been part of the lore of America's first black fighter pilots since the end of World War II: The Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to enemy fire. But now a leader of the group says he has uncovered records proving the claim is not accura
By threatening to ignite a Palestinian civil war, the killing of three children in the Gaza Strip on Monday has jeopardized Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's efforts to restart long-stalled peace talks.
A team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in computer memory technology that heralded more sophisticated and reliable MP3 players, digital cameras and other devices.
The bones of a baby plesiosaur have been recovered from an Antarctic island. In life, 70 million years ago, the five-foot-long long-necked animal .... The new fossil skeleton is one of the most complete of its type ever found.
In the end, nothing became the 109th Congress so much as its going, which it finally did on the heels of an ethics report that seemed to symbolize 2 years of feckless behavior. Even key Republicans left town lamenting a record of failure.
2 remarkable developments highlight the extent to which the US has become the land of mass incarceration. First, the Supreme Court denied the appeal of Weldon Angelos who got 55 years for a first-time marijuana offense.
Although we think of the Internet as an infinite network, we can pinpoint a representative beginning and a representative end. In order for the US to have a truly workable policy to make sure the benefits of sophisticated Internet connections are av
China’s Communist Party has a new agenda: it is encouraging people to discuss what it means to be a major world power and has largely stopped denying that China intends to become one soon. China Central Television has broadcast a 12-part series descr
By January 1, 2025, every American who is determined to live free shall do so. Those who are content with their chains are welcome to keep them, but we who must be free will have our own centerless legal system and free institutions that are not subj
In the summer of 2003, shoppers in Southern California began getting a break on the price of milk. A maverick dairyman named Hein Hettinga started bottling his own milk and selling it for as much as 20 cents a gallon less than the competition
Are streets without traffic signs conceivable? Seven cities and regions in Europe are giving it a try -- with good results. "We reject every form of legislation," the Russian artistocrat and "father of anarchism" Mikhail Bakunin
This picture of a cop escorting a little boy to the bathroom was taken in Durham, North Carolina. The policeman was there as part of a task force looking for drugs. When is this stupid war going to end. No word if any drugs were found.
I offer them the exact same solution that the government does, and they express loyalty to the government and threaten me. They throw me out into the street - and then meekly send their children to government schools. And Jails,. And wars
For nearly 20 years -- ever since Pete Costello was 8 -- his mother has collected disability benefits on his behalf. In meetings with Social Security officials and psychologists, he appeared mentally retarded and unable to communicate.
After being out of power for 12 years, Democrats will take control of Congress next month with a wish list of new programs, including more money for college student aid, the No Child Left Behind schools initiative and Medicare prescription drug benef
Let's be honest (for once): The problem in the Middle East is not the Palestinian people, not Hamas, not the Arabs, not Hezbollah or the Iranians or the entire Muslim world. It's us, the Israelis. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Following discussions with the Bush adminstration, several of Iraq's major political parties are in talks to form a coalition whose aim is to break the powerful influence of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr within the government
Customers of St.Paul-based Western Bank will soon have to jump through a few extra hoops to log into their accounts online. In addition to their standard username and password, customers at the bank will be instructed to choose a picture
Oil producing countries have reduced their exposure to the dollar to the lowest level in 2 years and shifted oil income into euros, yen and sterling, according to new date from the Bank for International Settlements. The revelation in the lates BIS
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