U.S. officials training Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are emphasizing urban anti-terrorist techniques as part of a systematic effort to bolster Abbas and his Fatah loyalists to counter the political success of Hamas, ac
The Israeli Supreme Court upheld Israel's policy of targeted killings of Palestinian militants, allowing the army to maintain a practice that has drawn widespread international condemnation.
The specter of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and
Iran over the bones of an shattered
Iraq is being conjured up by veiled warnings the kingdom may bankroll Sunni fighters if US troops go home.
Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress are likely to drive U.S. military budgets even higher in 2007, experts say.
This year's Pentagon budget is $436 billion. That amount does not include more than $140 billion that's being spen
A retired U.S. general decided how many troops to send to Iraq and the State Department failed to train Iraqi police, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The largest group of US legislators to visit communist-ruled Cuba have arrived in Havana for meetings with top Cuban officials, days after Raul Castro extended an olive branch to the United States.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has rejected a bipartisan panel's recommendation that the Bush administration engage Syria and Iran in efforts to stabilize Iraq.
Two federal agents were shot at a suburban Atlanta apartment complex while serving a search warrant for firearms. The agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and DeKalb County police were met with "numerous rounds of
Harassment from U.S. forces is a greater threat to the work of the Iraqi Red Crescent than insurgent attacks, a senior official of the Red Cross-linked humanitarian organization said.
Previously secret written evidence on British intelligence failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq was made public, with a former diplomat alleging that "at no time" did the government assess that Iraq posed a threat to Britain.
Gunmen allied with Hamas and
Fatah clashed at a
West Bank mosque and in
Gaza Strip streets, as violence spread to areas of the Palestinian territories normally untouched by factional strife.
What if the solution to American students' stagnant performance levels and the wide achievement gap between white and minority students wasn't more money, smaller schools, or any of the reforms proposed in recent years, but rather a new educa
A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
Scientists studied comet grains collected by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, which revealed surprising results. In addition to discovering stardust, or particles older than the Sun, they found material from the hottest part of the solar system.
An enormous plume erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be emanating from a substance much colder than liquid water. A new model suggests that these geyser jets spring from an ice phase called clathrate.
Instruments aboard the Venus Express spacecraft have obtained the first large-area temperature map of the southern hemisphere of Venus’ searing surface. By identifying hot spots, the new data could spot active volcanism.
Trade regulators on Thursday revoked most of the 13-year-old tariffs and duties against imports of a high-grade steel used in cars, giving U.S. and Japanese automakers a holiday surprise.
British fraud investigators stopped a probe into a multi-billion pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia after Riyadh warned it would cancel the deal. The decision was made "in the wider public interest," balanced against the rule of law.
In return for ratifying the original Constitution, which had no bill of rights, the new Congress would immediately propose amendments to protect individual liberty. Madison's adversaries opposed such amendments. They wanted Fed Power gone.
His vote for the UnPatriot Act was only the culmination of a dishonorable congressional career. He voted for every one of the federal ID and surveillance programs that oozed out of the ultra-statism of the 104th congress.
Half the world, nearly 3 billion people, live on less than $2 a day. (So the rest should get ready for some forced sharing,... oh, and those doing the forcing will manage this wealth transfer for us)
I was departing a small commuter airport in Southern California last week and I found myself in jail! Here's the story with the facts, and without any "emotional hype."
Nike+iPod Sport Kit from Apple consists of two components -- a sensor and a receiver -- that communicate using a wireless radio protocol. Unfortunately, there can be negative side-effects,... like being tracked!
A reminder on this "Bill of Rights Day" (December 15th) of just how far down the 'Dark Path' our nation has gone. Here's a little light to show you where we are currently. This link you might want to share with,... everyone.
This Friday December 15, 2006 is truly a day to rejoice for it is the 215th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Many attendees at the constitutional convention of 1787 were not completely convinced and wanted more assurance that t
THERE'S A RANCID odor escaping from the cracks in the Jose Padilla case. Padilla is the American citizen arrested in Chicago and declared by President Bush to be an "enemy combatant." He was then kept for nearly two years in a South Car