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For decades, Cuban Americans living in Miami have toasted each other at New Year's by saying, "Next year in Havana!" For the first time since Cuban leader Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959, there is a chance their wish may come true
The inspectors general entrusted to unearth waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies are increasingly under attack, as top government officials they scrutinize try to erode the watchdogs' independence and authority.
Iraq Coalition Casualty counts maintained by private individual.
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The state Supreme Court publicly reprimanded Ohio Gov. Bob Taft for his ethics violations in office, a black mark that will stay on his permanent record as an attorney.
Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis to embrace "brotherly coexistence" and not to hate U.S.-led foreign troops in a goodbye letter, a day after Iraq's highest court upheld his death sentence and ordered him hanged within 30 days.
Chile’s struggle with terrorism resulted in 2300 (both sides) dead and missing and the torture used against Chilean terrorist suspects was perhaps less draconian than that used by the USA against suspected Muslim terrorists.
"Shepherd" is an impressionistic history lesson about the CIA that offers an alternative perspective on America's role in the world and its justification for intervening in the affairs of other nations.
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Technology exists for good or bad. Government's interest is almost always bad. You need to see this video on an Automated Licnse Plate Recognition system. Good in identifying stolen vehicles, bad in scoring traffic revenue.
As instances of raiding cops conducting no-knock home entries continue to rise - oftentimes for the smallest infraction - so are the number of crooks impersonating raiding cops as a means to gain home entry from terrified occupants
A trained police dog that escaped from its police handler was shot and killed by a father protecting his son after the dog entered private property and menaced the family. Instead of taking responsibility for allowing their dog to escape, the cops fi
A look back at the year under neocon rule and an ominous look ahead.
Defense attorneys in 3 cases have argued that allowing US prosecutors to keep the witnesses' identities secret — as demanded by Israel to protect its agents — violates their clients' constitutional right to confront their accusers.
Underneath it all, however, is an exceptional treasure — the oldest surviving copy of works by the ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse, who lived in the 3rd century BC. About 80% of the text had been transcribed and tra
Two years ago, foreign engineers built a new highway through the desert of western Afghanistan, past this ancient trading post and on to the outside world. Nearby, they strung a high-voltage power line and laid a fiber-optic cable, marked with red po
Ballistic Missile Defense Programs Around the World Are Going to Have Their Work Cut out for Them: At Least Eight Nations Went All out in Developing Their Own Offensive Ballistic Missile Programs in 2006.
It began with all eyes on Osama bin Laden and ended with Osama bin Forgotten - as the White House turned its attention to Iraq. Bush's January 2003 State of the Union speech mentioned Saddam Hussein 17 times, but bin Laden not once.
More than 775 detainees have been held in Guantanamo. "Only detainees who will be charged with law-of-war violations and other grave offenses - about 75 detainees, officials estimated - will be subject to the commissions."
Iran's claim to need nuclear power may be genuine, given that it could run out of oil to export as soon as 8 years from now, according to an analysis published by the National Academy of Sciences. Investment in Iranian oil production had been ina
A fossil of a leaf-imitating insect from 47 million years ago bears a striking resemblance to the mimickers of today. Leaf imitation is an ancient and successful evolutionary strategy that has been conserved over a relatively long period of time.
Israel has approved a new settlement in the West Bank to house former Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, officials said, breaking a promise to the U.S. to halt home construction in the Palestinian territories.
A year after Virginia's crime lab launched an unprecedented review of old cases that experts said could free dozens of wrongly convicted people, the project appears to be years from completion, and some are questioning the credentials of the priv
Ethiopian troops fought their way closer to the Somali capital of Mogadishu, pushing back militias loyal to the Islamic Courts movement that has until now controlled much of the country and vowed to wage a guerrilla war against Ethiopia lasting
The United States will never win the “war on terror,” in part, because George W. Bush keeps applying elastic definitions to the enemy, most recently expanding the conflict into a war against Muslim “radicals and extremists.”
"Syria is genuinely interested in negotiations," Brigadier General Yossi Baidetz, head of the Military Intelligence research division, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "The Syrian regime believes that dialog w
In many ways, the report is a microcosm of the administration's lost year in Iraq. The reams of details aimed at touting success belie the fact that few of the goals are being met. The report is often upbeat as it presents some of the most minusc
Many Americans are unhappy about the war and want a change in policy. But what we are going to get from both parties in Washington is more of the same-- much more-- when it comes to Iraq.
In the aftermath of the UN Security Council unanimous vote imposing sanctions on Iran for failing to suspend uranium enrichment, one has to wonder: why did Russia and China go along with it? Iran's pursuit of uranium enrichment for civilian nucl
It's strange that little of the news coverage of Iraq addresses this question. Doesn't it seem obvious that some groups are fomenting the chaos? Getting tribes to fight each other is often easy. Most of them have some past injustice to avenge
Several federal agencies, including the FBI, are relocating operations with emphasis on security in a post-Sept. 11 world, which turns 75 miles from Washington into far enough from the capital to escape the fallout of a nuclear explosion
