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The shorter genomes of birds originated in saurischian dinosaurs, the group of dinosaurs from which birds evolved and that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. So rather than being a characteristic of birds or flying animals, short genomes should be thought o
The CIA operated an interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists within a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to British and Polish intelligence officials
[fascinating speculation] One of the more embarrassing mysteries of human evolution is that people are host to no fewer than three kinds of louse while most species have just one.
Pemex is in trouble. Its production and proven reserves are falling, and it has no money to reverse the slide. Mexico is the second-largest supplier of imported oil to the US, after Canada, but its total exports are slipping. Mexico may have trouble
China's legislature began examining a measure intended to help protect private property in an increasingly well-off society. Although the Communist Party still believes the state owns all land, the growing economy has meant that private property
Consider this list of members of the House: liberal Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), conservative Duncan Hunter (R- CA), libertarian Ron Paul (R-TX) and anti-illegal-immigration crusader Tom Tancredo (R-CO). What do they have in common?
The Internal Revenue Service is asking tax lawyers and accountants who create tax shelters and exploit loopholes to take the lead in writing some of its new tax rules. [comfy]
Lawmakers in S.C. are considering a bill to allow inmates to shave off jail time in exchange for allowing the state to shave off their organs. While the S.C. proposal isn't the same as current inmate policy in China, the difference is merely one
These laws obviously aim at another goal: the states gaining more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and freedom. (Educational short about 4 minutes)
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to testify before his committee about his investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson's identity. Plame-Wilson, Waxman's office said, has agreed to testify before Congress on
(Newsletter from the McCain Campaign)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
(We'll examine this document further and provide more information later - just released)
Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens
Under the new policy, Maher said, those people can be detained up to two hours while their identity is checked. He said a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent already has an office at the Police Department and has been working with officers
“I’ll tell you one thing is going to happen from all of this: someone is going to get killed,” Edwards County Sheriff Don G. Letsinger said about the current climate of prosecuting law enforcement officers, including one of his own.
If there's any good news about the businesses of newspapering these days, it can be found at the industry's littlest papers, which are doing well even as their bigger brothers founder. As the Internet dramatically transforms the largest paper
Bush's escalation in Iraq is underway, and the bloodshed continues; dozens of people are killed and hundreds wounded nearly every day. And yet Congress, and its numerous presidential hopefuls, continues to dither on cutting the funding for the wa
Why does a Vice President have a chief of staff? The Vice President has no administrative functions. Why does he need a staff or a chief to run it? And why should he have a National Security Adviser? The President already has one. Why should the Vice
Houzan is an outspoken Iraqi feminist who believes that hope for Iraq's future depends on building a society based on secular democracy and human rights. For this, she has been condemned to death.
[You decide.] Mystery still surrounds the disappearance of former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister from Turkey last month. There are indications he may be a goldmine of military information about Iran and Hezbollah.
There have been calls for the impeachment of President Bush from certain left-wing groups for years. For the most part, those calls have been correctly ignored.
A former Iranian deputy defense minister who once commanded the Revolutionary Guard has left his country and is cooperating with Western intelligence agencies, providing information on Hezbollah and Iran's ties to the organization, according to a
That's not pushing a plan, it is pushing on a rope, and the House Democratic leadership knows it. You can almost hear their giggles as they offer the antiwar voters who gave them their majority one of Washington's oldest dodges, "require
Rock scientists from across the world will start next week to put together the first geological map of earth in a bid to better understand the planet.
Two prototype spacecraft, one wielding its own robotic arm, are poised to launch spaceward late Thursday on a three-month mission to test methods for robotically refueling satellites in Earth orbit.
[misleading] Humans caught pubic lice, aka "the crabs," from gorillas roughly three million years ago. Rather than close encounters of the intimate kind, humans most likely got the lice from sleeping in gorilla nests or eating the apes.
China's foreign exchange regulators are considering allowing individuals to convert their yuan holdings into foreign currencies for direct investment in overseas markets.
New Century Financial Corp., whose shares fell 25% amid speculation it would seek bankruptcy protection, said it has received $265 million in financing, but stopped accepting loan applications after some lenders blocked its credit lines.
With California leading the stampede, states are rushing to get more clout in the 2008 White House race by moving their primaries to early February -- a shift that could aid front-runners with big names and big bank accounts.
