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In an overlooked hearing, the head of a government watchdog agency warned of looming disaster for America's economy if an effort isn't made to control spending. Decision-makers in Washington suffer from "tunnel vision and "myopia,**
Now that the Democrats are running Congress, the risk that Nancy Pelosi will launch a tax-rise torpedo at the stock market has risen. Investors ignore this risk at their peril.
If George Bush continues to makes speeches, he's going to soon be within Nixon's resignation-compelling unpopularity. While a weakened Bush presidency may appear intuitively to be a cause for celebration, it poses a serious danger.
“We are implementing a strategy to embolden a government that is actually part of the problem,” said an American military official in Baghdad involved in negotiations over the plan. “We are being played like a pawn.”
A non-binding resolution doesn't do much of anything but allow politicians to posture without much risk. It certainly gives reporters plenty of rhetoric to use in stories, but in the end, there's nothing to a non-binding resolution. They come
US Vice-President Dick Cheney accused critics of the administration's new strategy in Iraq of playing into the hands of Osama bin Forgotten and global terrorism. "He believes after Lebanon and Somalia, the United States doesn't have t
President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and untrue version of events that raises questions about the accuracy of the administration's statements a
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The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said the United States, Britain and Israel were an "axis of evil" trying to drive a wedge between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims.
E. HOWARD Hunt - the shadowy former CIA man who organized the Watergate break-in and was once eyed in the assassination of President Kennedy - bizarrely says that Lyndon Johnson could be seen as a prime suspect in the rubout.
The Iraqi government executed 2 of Saddam Hussein's associates early Monday morning for their participation in crimes against humanity. Despite efforts to avoid the uproar that marred the execution of Hussein the noose ripped the head from
Bush said he has the authority as commander in chief to move ahead with the deployment, regardless of what the Democratic-controlled Congress does in opposition.
Why is the United States poised to try Jose Padilla as a dangerous terrorist, long after it has become clear that he was just the wrong Muslim in the wrong airport on the wrong day? Why is Washington still holding hundreds of detainees at Guantana
Security chiefs are developing a harpoon-like gun to defend Parliament against a terrorist attack from the River Thames. The James Bond-style device is a snare gun, which could be used to halt a boat making its way towards Westminster, laden with exp
Patients were put in isolation, tied down or drugged, and subjected to hours and hours of taped recordings meant to brainwash them at the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency. They were subjected to massive electroshocks, experimental drugs and
Deep into an updated Army manual, the deletion of 10 words has left some national security experts wondering whether government lawyers are again asserting the executive branch’s right to wiretap Americans without a court warrant. The manual, desc
The Justice Department is fighting in court to keep secret a government report concluding that it leaked confidential and damaging information against a former prosecutor accused of bungling a high-profile terror trial. Justice attorneys say they
The military's expanded use of the records authority was first reported yesterday on the Web site of the New York Times, which said that military officials had made more than 500 such requests since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Quoting unnamed mi
Anyone who thinks that the Republicans are as ignorant in foreign affairs as the Democrats are in economics hasn't read the plan put forward by Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani for Iraq. The 2 Republicans advocate the US fund a civilian job corps
I am still not convinced a course is being offered this semester on the "North American Union" at Arizona State University, but clearly one course has, and many more will eventually follow. Here are the links ... [-Powell]
Downing Street says that belated US recognition of global warming could lead to a post-Kyoto agreement on curbing emissions. George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position on global warming when he makes his State of the Union spee
The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the US, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence ga
The American company appointed to advise the US government on the economic reconstruction of Iraq has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into Republican Party coffers and has admitted that its own finances are in chaos because of accounting errors
A Massachusetts State Police crime lab administrator has been suspended for failing to turn over DNA matches to a number of unsolved cases until after the statute of limitations had expired, the department said.
Lawmakers begin work on a new multibillion-dollar farm bill at odds with President Bush over whether big changes really are needed. What I think we're going to end up doing, you could say, is extending the farm bill," Rep. Collin Peterson, D
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said they would help finance investment projects in other countries seeking to thwart U.S. domination.
Vice President Dick Cheney said the Pentagon and CIA are not violating people's rights by examining the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage in the United States.
A Los Angeles Police Department captain who voted not to discipline Officer Steven Garcia this week in the shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown had warned him in a previous disciplinary case that one more offense would probably get him fired.
A Google spokesman said the information could be used for "good and bad" and was available to the public in many forms. "Of course we are always ready to listen to governments' requests," he said. "We have opened chann
In defending his policy of interventionism, the Prime Minister said the covenant between the Armed Forces, the Government and the people had to be renewed, which meant spending more on equipment, personnel and conditions, Mr Blair said.
