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Stunned by revelations of police incompetence in the case of a Canadian man deported to Syria, the government launched an investigation into claims by 3 other men who were tortured in Syria because of information provided by Canadian authorities.
Thousands of troops rolled into a key Mexican drug stronghold to set fire to marijuana and opium fields and round up traffickers, sent by President Felipe Calderon to restore order in a region where smugglers have defied authorities with beheadings a
More than 30 prominent Islamic clerics from Saudi Arabia called on Sunni Muslims around the Middle East to support their brethren in Iraq against Shiites and praised the insurgency.
House Democrats, insistent that they will hold lawmakers to higher standards, decided that Rep. William Jefferson will not return to an influential committee until a federal corruption investigation involving him is completed.
Kofi Annan yesterday used his final speech as the United Nations secretary general to deliver a parting shot at the Bush administration, accusing the US of committing human rights abuses in the name of fighting terror.
Santa Claus is not the only one who is checking to see whether you've been naughty or nice. For the last 4 years, the US government has been snooping by computer into people's travel records and assigning them a risk score for being terroris
"Can you say that this is the same level, when they [Iran] are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel and Russia?" he asked. ... undermined the West's objections to a nuclear Iran.
Four million Americans turn eighteen every year. Should the current lottery system ever be utilized, how could a draft of say, 50,000 annually, be justified when all the rest are free to go about their civilian lives?
Supporters of rival Palestinian groups, Fatah and Hamas, are reported to have exchanged gunfire in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least four people. The gunfire broke out at a protest against growing lawlessness in the southern town of Khan Younis.
U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA) exercised political muscle for personal gain, they say. Miller implored City Council members to purchase 165 acres he owned in the foothills and turn the land into a wilderness preserve. Earlier that day,
I’ve got bad news and good news. The bad news: A recession is coming in 2007. The good news: A recession is coming in 2007.
Scientists appear to have found a fingerprint of Alzheimer's disease lurking in patients' spinal fluid, a step toward a long-awaited test for the memory-robbing disease that today can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy.
Two engine options will be available, the 2-litre FSI Turbo engine producing 250 hp and the R32 3.2-litre V6 with twin turbochargers producing 385 hp.
A pair of suicide car bombs has killed at least 60 people, mostly Shiite casual labourers, in downtown Baghdad as Iraq's divided government struggled to deal with the escalating violence. Insurgents, meanwhile, again targeted a revered Shiite
"Everyone already assumes bloggers are unemployed losers," wrote one commenter, "thanks for reinforcing that stereotype..." (Scroll right down to the video for a quick look :)
Cheaper oil prices have driven the US trade deficit to a 14-month low in October but the politically controversial gap with China surged to a new high.
The mystery baffled archaeologists for more than 2 decades. What happened to 22,000 pieces of gold—jewel-encrusted crowns, daggers and baubles from an ancient burial mound—that had apparently vanished from Afghanistan? [www.guimet.fr]
DNA samples should be taken from babies and stored on a database to help in the fight against crime, a senior police officer said yesterday.
Distracted driving is emerging as nearly as serious a factor as speeding and impaired driving in research on traffic accidents, and safety analysts and state legislatures are trying to combat it. A study being released today by auto club AAA's
The Federal Open Market Committee called the cooling of the housing industry ``substantial,'' one of the few changes in language from its previous statement in October.
Jackson acknowledges some discomfort over the decision to give information to the feds without legal process -- a move that could save e-gold from further law enforcement aggression, while tarnishing its libertarian sheen. His lawyers aren
Its time to check in again with someone that knows what's really happening in Iraq
Barnes:…and the day before he leavers office—carry out the military option in Iran.
Last night Jon Stewart and the Daily Show team put together a touching farewell to the outgoing 109th do-nothing-Congress. The "where are they now?" part at the end is classic.
Macro-Economic and Geopolitical Writings
Entered By: Ernest Hancock
So, if one ounce of gold should by 15.2 barrels of oil at $63 a barrel, then gold prices should be…$957.60, and according to this historic ratio, gold is severely undervalued.
"In 2005, the average consumer spent $20 for every $19 he earned," Wiggin went on to say, "and that was during the peak of a housing bubble that appears to have now come to a dramatic end."
The increasing rate of melting sea ice is contributing to a positive feedback system, which feeds global warming further because open ocean absorbs heat from the sun rather than reflects back into space as does ice.
``As the Soviet Union disappeared, the Zionist regime will also vanish and humanity will be liberated,'' the official Islamic Republic News Agency cited Ahmadinejad as telling the conference yesterday.
"Show me anybody in the 19th century who interprets the Second Amendment the way you do," Judge Laurence Silberman said. "It doesn't appear until much later, the middle of the 20th century."
