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Federal investigators are looking at whether Interior Department officials played favorites or took money from companies vying for big oil and gas contracts. The probe is the latest in a series of investigations into Interior's handling of $10 bi
The Justice Department plans to aggressively expand the size and reach of its little-known OneDOJ database program. The database, which currently enables information sharing among a small group of local law enforcement agencies that are participating
China warned that the military landscape in northeast Asia is getting "more complicated and serious" because of North Korea's nuclear weapons program and tighter defense cooperation between Japan and the United States.
An appeals court considering whether Guantanamo Bay detainees have constitutional rights said yesterday that it will not accept arguments by seven retired federal judges who oppose a new U.S. anti-terrorism law.
For the first time, more troops disapprove of the president’s han dling of the war than approve of it. Barely one-third of service members approve of the way the president is handling the war, ac cording to the 2006 Military Times Poll.
He is a citizen of Pakistan. He was arrested on a business trip to Thailand. On what authority or charges was he even being held? “That question,” a Marine colonel answered, “is outside the limits of what this board is permitted to consider.”
Wisconsin's revenue agency said that it sent as many as 170,000 forms to taxpayers with mailing labels mistakenly printed with their Social Security numbers.
The draft has no place in a free society because it is slavery, the kind that can get you killed or put you in a position where you might kill someone else. There’s a great way for [Congress] them to show their bona fides: end draft registration.
Since coming to this country eight years ago, Jose Dimas has bristled at the $8 fee he often must pay to cash his paycheck. He stews over the $10 charge he faces whenever he wires $150 home to his parents in Mexico.
Hussein used Iraq's oil money to provide unprecedented social services and infrastructure improvements to his country. He launched literacy and education campaigns, provided free schooling up to the university level and created the most modern pu
The Iraqi government launched an inquiry into how guards filmed and taunted Saddam Hussein on the gallows, turning his execution into a televised spectacle that has inflamed sectarian anger. "There were a few guards who shouted slogans that were
Enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's Sunni heartland, as a mob in Samara broke the locks off a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine and marched through carrying a mock coffin and photo of the dictator.
An Arkansas man has found a 2.37-carat white diamond at the world's only diamond-bearing site where visitors are allowed to search for and keep the gems they find. [provided they come up with the IRS's tax estimate]
Some, though, said they wonder whether the ink, developed by using beads called polymer microspheres, would hold up as well as traditional inks that include heavy metals to help forestall fading.
According to a Reuters report, The French space agency, (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) is ready to publish online its archive of UFO incidents.
A space telescope designed to seek out planets not much bigger than Earth has been launched into space from a location in Kazakhstan.
The past year heralded a seismic shift in the video-game industry. The cause? The Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 game consoles.
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2006 Review: Part 1 of 2006 Chronology: January - March
2006 Review: Part 2 of 2006 Chronology: April - June
2006 Review: Part 3 of 2006 Chronology: July - September
2006 Review: Part 4 of 2006 Chronology: October - December 13
After hundreds of pages of testimony, several hundred pages in briefs, two-plus days of hearings, expert witnesses, and the defense team's discovery of the racist, red-neck informant, Eubanks dismissed the case in all of eight pages. Double space
Auditors said the agency's finances were exposed to possible error and fraud at four of its biggest units: the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcemen
2006 will be remembered as the year commercial spaceflight took a firm hold.
Year by year listing of movie by how much money they made.
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We Got Him!!!! Only $354 Billion & 3,000 US Military! (I'd call that a Bargain. The best we've ever had...) Some thanks are in order: 1) To George W. Bush. It only
It's official. Maliki and his people are psychopaths. This really is a new low. It's outrageous- an execution during Eid. Muslims all over the world (except Iran) are outraged. Eid is a time of peace, of putting aside quarrels and anger- at l
Federalism is a concept that is predicated on the notion of separation of powers. The founding fathers believed that dividing the powers of government, along with the introduction of a Bill of Rights, was the best protection against an incremental,
