IRAN is threatening to retaliate in Europe for what it claims is a daring undercover operation by western intelligence services to kidnap senior officers in its Revolutionary Guard. Several officers have been abducted in the past 3 months with the ai
For US troops from 9th Cavalry Regiment bumping around the dangerous streets of Baghdad in Humvees after dark, news that their deployment in Iraq could be extended fell like a hammer blow.
Only about one-fifth of 10,000 veteran officers in the Army's Individual Ready Reserve say they're willing to be deployed overseas, an Army survey shows. It suggests souring attitudes within the military toward U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanist
Grand Rapids police say they arrested four people for noise and hindering officers.
Another rally in Kalamazoo's Bronson Park attracted anti-war protesters and counter-protesters. One person told Newschannel 3, "It's going to come dow
It will take years for the Army and Marine Corps to recover from what some officials privately have called a "death spiral," in which the ever more rapid pace of war-zone rotations has consumed 40% of their total gear, wearied troops and le
It wasn't supposed to be like this. It was going to be a "cakewalk," the Iraqis would rise up and shower us with rose petals, and Johnny would come marching home in no time. Remember? Besides that, the whole deal would be cost-free, you
House Democratic leaders are offering billions in federal funds for lawmakers' pet projects large and small to secure enough votes this week to pass an Iraq funding bill that would end the war next year.
[What sacrifice Condi?] Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Americans "to be patient" as the war in Iraq entered its 5th year, acknowledging early missteps but saying "it is worth the sacrifice" to have toppled Saddam Hussei
"But a Washington Post analysis of crash statistics shows that the number of accidents has gone up at intersections with the cameras. The increase is the same or worse than at traffic signals without the devices."
Russia has 4,399 nuclear warheads deployed. Iran has no nuclear weapons. North Korea might have three nuclear missiles. Yet the administration, most of America's news media, seems obsessed with Iran, no doubt because Israel is obsessed with Iran.
While serving as President Bush’s White House lawyer, Alberto Gonzales advised Bush that the president’s war time powers permitted Bush to ignore the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and to use the National Security Agency to spy on US citizens
For the past few months, I have concentrated on the legal aspects of the Duke Lacrosse Non-Rape, Non-Kidnapping, and Non-Sexual Assault Case, but I hardly have forgotten the predations of members of Duke University’s faculty. Thanks goodness, K.C. Jo
A Yemeni portrayed as an al-Qaida operative and a member of a terrorist family confessed to plotting the bombings of the USS Cole and two U.S. embassies in Africa, killing hundreds, according to a Pentagon transcript of a Guantanamo Bay hearing.
Brian Fortinberry, who runs Front Range Barbecue in Colorado Springs, Colo., is feeling the brunt of a spike in prices.
Beef costs about 10 percent more than it did in January, he says. Fruit and lettuce are also pricier. Gasoline has gone up, add
Police arrested more than 100 Iraq war protesters in San Francisco and NY City as the nation marked the 4th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Uniformed police outnumbered the fewer than 100 protesters outside the stock exchange building at the
So while the federal government was indicting one business for breaking federal obscenity laws, the government itself was breaking those same laws just a few miles away, in order to recoup federal taxes owed by a rival store.
When the [housing] bubble finally bursts completely, millions of Americans will be looking for someone to blame. Look for Congress to hold hearings into subprime lending practices and "predatory" mortgages. We'll hear a lot of grandstan
In addition to the city, the suit names as defendants Detectives Andre Bruna and Sean Visners, the two officers who shot Diotaiuto; Police Chief David Boyett; the SWAT team leader and two other SWAT members who broke down Diotaiuto's door.
Shortly after 7 a.m., the Grangers said they were jarred from their sleep by what sounded like an explosion as police tossed smoke bombs through the basement windows. Other explosions followed as officers burst through the doors.
On Nov. 19, 2005, US Marines killed 24 apparently innocent civilians in an Iraqi town called Haditha. The dead included men, women and children as young as 2 years old. Marines were on a rampage, slaughtering people in the street and in their homes.
Remember the anthrax scare? It was about 4 weeks after 9/11. Letters laced with powdery spores of the deadly bacteria were mailed. In all, 5 people died, 17 fell ill. At first, everyone thought this was another al-Qaeda terrorist attack.
Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail to the White
Vote or Die - 2008 presidential candidates are lavishing attention on a group that displays unbridled enthusiasm early in the campaign but tends to lose interest when the voting starts. (Duh, by election time the kids have figured it out)
Members of a local peace group say they'll risk possible arrests and fines today by refusing to take out $1 million in liability insurance being demanded by the city of Union Gap.
Members of the Yakima Valley Peace Advocates Network, who plan
FBI counterterrorism officials continued to use flawed procedures to obtain thousands of U.S. telephone records during a two-year period when bureau lawyers and managers were expressing escalating concerns about the practice, according to senior FBI