European investigators are tracking the mysterious deaths of two security experts who had uncovered extensive spyware in their telecommunications firms. He used mobile phone records to trace how a "Special Removal Unit" composed of CIA
SOME 30 non-governmental organisations in Niger said overnight they are going to sue the United States for nearly two billion dollars for "unfairly accusing" Niger of selling uranium to the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
A US federal judge has ruled that a suit against the Vatican over priests molesting young victims can go ahead despite claims that the Vatican is protected as a foreign government, a court official said.
The keepers of the "Doomsday Clock" plan to move its hands forward to reflect worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world. The symbolic clock is currently set at 7 minutes to midnight, with midnight marking global catastrophe.
Americans overwhelmingly oppose sending more U.S. forces to Iraq, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll that serves as a strong repudiation of President Bush's plan to send another 21,500 troops.
Interviews with law professors, postal officials, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates produced the consensus that the government already possessed this limited letter-opening power under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Bush's assertions are propagandistic lies. The Iraq insurgency is Sunni. Iran is Shi'ite. If Iran is supporting anyone in Iraq it is the Shi'ites, who have not been part of the insurgency. The Sunni and Shi'ites are engaged in a civil
As Republicans peel off in their support for [Bush's] failed policies, and Democrats pile on, the president's utter indifference to the results of the recent election – indeed, that stunning rejection seems to have emboldened him – have led m
U.S. Democratic and Republican senators voiced strong concern that the Iraq war could spread to neighboring Iran and Syria if the U.S. military were to chase militants across the border. President Bush, who accuses Iran and Syria of fomenting the vio
... the real story was the president’s sharp rhetoric towards Iran and Syria. And recent moves by the administration only serve to confirm the likelihood of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
Officials still aren't saying if a suspected illegal entrant shot and killed Friday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent had a weapon (as if they wouldn't be screaming it at the top of their lungs if the entrant did have a weapon).
Randy Pullen is a conservative in the true sense of the word. Pullen is an activist with a track record of getting results. From a middle class perspective, Pullen is on the right side of many issues which impact all working people.
Two Florida cops whose identity are being kept secret because they're STILL doing undercover work, chase wrong car, beat up and arrest wrong men after failing to check the license plate number. County settles out of court with the wrongly arreste
Al inicio del año cuando noticias de trascendencia histórica acaparan la atención del mundo; cuando Wal Mart se identifica como la gran fuerza económica del mundo; Steve Jobs al frente de Apple inicia una nueva etapa que nos debe de llevar a terrenos
Melodie Baker said she is afraid the data collected by the drones "would be used the wrong way." County Commission Wayne Butts said, "They may be taking pictures of a plant or two, but where does it stop? Do we have to grab our pitchfo
John Gilmore hoped the Supreme Court would intervene, and make clear the government cannot deprive the public of the text of the laws that bind them. Instead the court has shirked its clear constitutional duty. This issue now is left to the political
The federal tax evasion trial of Ed and Elaine Brown suffered an interruption yesterday when the couple failed to appear in U.S. District Court in Concord. Ed Brown, who described the proceedings as a "kangaroo court" in a telephone intervi
17-year-old Patrick Agin often spends a week whittling a single arrow, and he's learning to make chain mail armor by hand. It came time to submit a senior yearbook photo, he selected a photo of himself wearing chain mail and slinging a sword over
Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.
The group has set up a campaign to raise money to buy Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea
"It was 6 a.m. It was still dark…there was this pounding at the door," Jeannie Bandy said. "I was petrified."
Police officers stormed into the house with guns pointed. "The first thing I thought was, someone's trying t
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan reaffirmed Turkey's right to send troops into Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels there and chided U.S. officials for questioning it. "The Turkish Republic will do whatever is necessary to combat the terrorists when th
To fight their way into this area and clear it of Taliban insurgents, NATO troops bulldozed through orchards, smashed down walls and even houses, and churned vineyards and melon fields to dust.
Displaced and buffeted by fighting since May, the Afgha
"An anti-war protester and the Secretary of Defense don't appear to be a couple likely to get along -- especially when the latter is advocating a troop escalation," CNN's Alexander Mooney and Steve Brusk report.
Despite its claims to the contrary, some see evidence that the White House is preparing for conflict with Iran.
US forces raided a facility that Iran claimed was being used for diplomatic purposes, alleging that Iranians were funneling
The House of Representatives voted on Friday to require the government to negotiate directly with drug companies to obtain to lower drug prices for seniors, ignoring a White House threat to veto the Democratic measure.
A recent series of American raids against Iranians in Iraq was authorized under an order that President Bush decided to issue several months ago to undertake a broad military offensive against Iranian operatives in the country, Secretary of St
The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism was dismayed lawyers at many of the nation’s top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo, and firms’ corporate clients should end business ties.
Military operations in Somalia by American commandos, and the use of the Ethiopian Army as a surrogate force to root out operatives for Al Qaeda in the country, are a blueprint Pentagon strategists hope to use more frequently in counterterrorism miss