That was settled law until last week. Now there's a possibility that a more conservative Supreme Court might endorse this lower-court decision. If so, the justices will need to acknowledge that public safety requires regulation of firearms.
Blogger.com, home of the weblog publishing system owned by Google, has been infiltrated by a number of phishing sites, security watchers report.
In some cases, the Stration mass mailer is being used to drive traffic to these fraudulent sites. One
The first hint that a new type of matter may exist came in 1983. "Twenty five years ago we thought we understood everything about how matter changes phase," says Wen. "Then along came an experiment that opened up a whole new world.
When two Los Angeles police officers came upon an organized dogfight in a trash-ridden alley in South Los Angeles earlier this week, they found two battered and bloody pit bulls.
But the officers were surprised to see who was organizing the allege
Overwhelmed by unprecedented demand, the State Department is warning would-be travelers to brace for lengthy delays in getting U.S. passports, even when they pay a hefty fee to speed their applications.
An Army staff sergeant said he did not order members of his squad to kill three Iraqi detainees as his soldiers have testified. Staff Sgt. Ray Girouard said two soldiers in his squad released and shot the detainees during a May 9 raid near Samarra,
When a bruised Kianoosh Sanjari climbed from the police van last October, he immediately recognised the familiar drab buildings of Evin Prison section 240, run by the plainclothes branch of the Revolutionary Guards. His crime? Reporting for his weblo
Dozens of U.S. Stryker combat vehicles roared into Baqouba at sunrise. The enemy was ready. As the dawn call-to-prayer fell silent, the streets blazed with insurgent fire. Within minutes of the start of their first mission in Diyala province a voice
When is someone, somewhere in this country going to stand up and demand an accounting for all we've lost in a foolish, unjustified and unnecessary war in the wrong place, against the wrong people, at the wrong time - conducted by a president who
Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, he learned his own conduct would likely be a focus of th
A US Marine charged with murdering 18 unarmed civilians in Iraq, said he regretted the deaths but would make the same decisions today. Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich admitted shooting 5 unarmed Iraqi men in the back and said his actions were justified bec
The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq has asked for an additional 2,500 to 3,000 troops to be sent to Iraq as part of the Bush administration's military buildup to crack down on rising sectarian violence and insurgents.
Members of Congress used to know an earmark when they saw one. They used the term to describe any of the favored, parochial expenditures that lawmakers might tuck into a complicated spending bill — $35 million for a Mississippi space center, for exam
It was hardly a social call when Fred F. Fielding, the new White House counsel, turned up on Capitol Hill. He had come to negotiate with Democrats, who are investigating whether politics played a role in the dismissal of 8 federal prosecutors and dem
Mr. Abssi displayed his makeshift training facility and his strident message that America needed to be punished for its presence in the Islamic world. “The only way to achieve our rights is by force. This is the way America deals with us. So when the
Scientists have turned water into ice in nanoseconds, which means really, really fast. That's not the most interesting part, though. The ice is hotter than boiling water. The experiment was done at the Sandia National Laboratories' huge Z mac
A Democratic-written budget plan that seeks to eliminate deficits by 2012 [don't they all?] and throws into doubt the future of President Bush's tax cuts advanced in the U.S. Senate after a panel approved the measure along party lines.
President Bush challenged lawmakers to prove their support for troops in Iraq by agreeing to more war spending without attaching a timeline for withdrawal or any other conditions. [In other words: Forever.]
The worst may not be over for the US mortgage sector, whose shakiness has rippled across financial markets worldwide, many economists say.
With a long US property boom now fading into memory, mortgage delinquencies and defaults are on the rise, es
US wholesale prices unexpectedly surged 1.3 percent in February, the government said as food and energy costs rocketed. The Labor Department's producer price index (PPI) was much higher than Wall Street forecasts for a rise of 0.5 percent, and co
Leslie Weise and Alex Young of Denver were ejected from the hall in Denver just before Bush was to talk about his plans for Social Security at the March 21, 2005, taxpayer-funded event.
A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50% discount for sex in the afternoon.
The "Pascha" has introduced reduced rates for sex sessions for clients aged 66 and above -- provided they
Mike Strizki lives in the nation's first solar-hydrogen house. The technology this civil engineer has been able to string together – solar panels, a hydrogen fuel cell, storage tanks, and a piece of equipment called an electrolyzer – provides ele
Virginia Commonwealth sophomore guard Eric Maynor sure has a flair for dramatics in big games. Maynor hit a 15-foot jumper with 1.8 seconds left in the Rams' 79-77 upset victory over the Duke Blue Devils in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
U.N. ambassadors from six world powers agreed in principle on a proposed new package of sanctions against Iran and were expected to introduce a resolution to the Security Council if their governments approve it, the U.S. ambassador said.
New unreleased emails from top adminstration officials show the idea of firing all 93 US attorneys was by Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than previously acknowledged by the White House.