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A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any "special event of national significance" away to jail on felony charges if caught breaching a security perimeter
A Reuters photographer said Sheehan had been seated for less than a minute when a plainclothes Capitol Police officer took her by the arm, said, "You've got to leave," and rushed her from the gallery.
Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to Tuesday night's speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed in the House chamber, but she did not respond, the spokes
An experimental device that aims to generate clean energy using nuclear fusion will be built in the next few months in Hefei, capital city of East China's Anhui Province.
According to reports in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, the FBI and the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department have confirmed that Mexican Army troops armed with mounted machine guns accompanying civilian drug smugglers were confronted by federal and
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush's State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said
What will be the most repeated word in tonight's speech?
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeki
"For each election, the officer in charge of the election shall conduct a hand count of at least five per cent of the precincts in that election. The precincts shall be selected by lot without the use of a computer immediately after the closing
With a new general in charge, the U.S. military's plans to fight Iraq's insurgents are expected to emphasize improving Iraqis' quality of life, rather than killing or capturing guerrillas.
Struggling to retain enough officers to lead its forces, the Army has begun to dramatically increase the number of soldiers it promotes, raising fears within the service that wartime strains are diluting the quality of the officer corps. Last year
Halliburton subsidiary KBR has agreed to lop $9 million off sole-source contracts paid for by the government with Iraqi oil money after auditors questioned $208 million in possible overcharges. Case closed.
States are planning legislation to ban protests at the funerals of Iraq war casualties organised by a far-right religious group which believes that the deaths are divine retribution for American tolerance of homosexuality.
A judge offered a 20-year-old man facing sentencing: Enlist in the Army or go to jail for up to a year. Michael Guerra, 20, had pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree criminal contempt after he was accused of violating an order of protection.
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) charged that Alberto Gonzales misled the Senate during his confirmation hearing when he dismissed the senator's question as a "hypothetical situation" about whether the president could authorize warrantless
The US said it was astonished by Taiwanese President Shui-bian's planned hardline policies on China. He would "seriously consider" abolishing reunification with China applying to rejoin the UN in the name of Taiwan and draft a new con
THE US vowed today to avoid its past mistake of neglecting Afghanistan, during high-level US-Afghan talks on the eve of an international donors conference for the central Asian country. "We made the mistake once before of leaving (neglecting) A
Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) is also emblematic of an under-appreciated libertarian strand in his party. He and Larry Craig (R-ID) are the leaders of a quartet of GOP senators who are standing up to the White House over the Patriot Act, scheduled to expir
The National Security Agency is in the process of building a new warning hub and data warehouse in the Denver area, realigning much of its workforce from Ft. Meade, Maryland to Colorado.
The topic of jailed medical marijuana activist Steve Kubby is gaining popularity on the Internet as he reports failing health and poor medical attention in Placer County Jail.
Last fall, Brigham Young University physics professor Steven E. Jones made headlines when he charged that the World Trade Center collapsed because of "pre-positioned explosives." Now, along with a group that calls itself "Scholars for
A ranking Louisiana health official turned down federal offers to help move or evacuate patients as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, a newly released document shows.
Of all the audiences George W. Bush faces Tuesday night in his fifth annual State of the Union message - Congress, the American people, the world - perhaps the most important will be independent voters. They who left the president's side l
Overcrowded housing is emerging as a battleground in immigration as towns and counties crack down on landlords who permit many unrelated people to occupy single-family homes. [After years of blocking landlords efforts to evict!]
Campaign-finance law has helped Indian tribes increase their political clout is under scrutiny. Last year, tribal casinos raked in nearly $20 billion in revenue, becoming political donors in the same league with drug companies and defense contractors
The lobbying firm of Grimes and Young Inc. is not on K Street, famous address of some of the nation's most influential lobbyists. In fact, Grimes and Young is about a 2 1/2-hour drive from the halls of Congress, in politically remote Media, Pa.,
Col. Janis Karpinski told that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.
The Senate investigation into bungled pre-war Iraq intelligence is being held up by Pentagon investigation of Douglas Feith, one of the war's leading architects, for his alleged role in manipulating pre-war intelligence to support a case f
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If the election for governor of Arizona were being held today, would you vote for the Democrat Janet Napolitano, the Republican (John Greene or Don Goldwater), or the Libertarian Barry Hess?
