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Google Inc. and eBay Inc.'s Skype are investing in a startup that plans to help hotspot owners charge for Wi-Fi access, a plan that could face significant opposition from Internet service providers.
Big plays from Willie Parker and Hines Ward put a shine on a lackluster performance that was still strong enough for the Pittsburgh Steelers to beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in Super Bowl XL on Sunday.
Thousands of federal, state and local law enforcement officers have descended on Detroit to cast a security net over Super Bowl XL in one of the largest such efforts in U.S. history. Some Canadian border enforcement officers have been deputized
Residents rejected a proposal to evict Supreme Court Justice David Souter from his farmhouse to make way for the "Lost Liberty Hotel." But voters deciding which issues should go on the town's March ballot replaced the group's propos
Economists worry that there are too many dollars in foreign hands, thanks to our enormous budget deficit. The US must borrow to finance its debt. To do so, it issues Treasury securities, which are interest-bearing IOUs backed by the government.
"The president is acting within his authority; he was legitimate in what he did," Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said. "What he did was legal and reasonable and necessary." Members of the committee should not politicize a sensitive iss
The Republican chairman of the Senate intelligence committee endorsed President Bush's domestic surveillance program and said the White House was right to inform only a handful of lawmakers about its existence.
An intense debate erupted during the Ford administration over the president's powers to eavesdrop without warrants to gather foreign intelligence. George H.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are cited in the documents
We are only here to help you ... God help us. Are you ready kids?
U.S. officials who want terror suspect Jose Padilla to wear handcuffs and ankle chains during open court appearances must first show he poses a direct safety threat, a federal judge said. The difference for Padilla between his 3 1/2 years in U.S. mil
A sign tallying the American troops killed and wounded in Iraq has been removed from its spot right next to an Army recruiting office. The sign was taken down to make amends with offended Iraq war veterans and the building's other occupants.
At least 10 veterans of the Iraq war are running for Congress, all but one as Democrats, in what amounts to an open challenge to both President Bush's policies in Iraq and the traditional Republican advantage on national security issues.
In September 2004, Washington accused Sudan of genocide leaving 300,000 people dead and 2.4 million homeless. But Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer now says the situation "is very different than it was. It's not as systematic.
The militia commander wanted to be very clear: January's attacks on Western oil companies in Nigeria's crude-rich Delta region were only the beginning. "Trust me," he said, "by the end of this month you will see serious action.
Cuban officials invited UScorporations to lobby against the US trade embargo and invest in the communist nation's energy sector, as they announced plans to double their drilling capacity and explore for oil in the island's Caribbean waters.
[What oil money?] Iraqi and American officials say they are seeing a troubling pattern of government corruption enabling the flow of oil money and other funds to the insurgency and threatening to undermine Iraq's struggling economy.
The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long war," yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions U.S. troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional th
The United Nations nuclear watchdog has voted to report Iran to the Security Council over its nuclear activities. Twenty-seven states out of 35 on the IAEA board backed the move, with three against and five abstentions.
The matchmaking advice comes as military family life is being stressed by two tough wars. More than 56,000 in the Army have divorced since the campaign in Afghanistan. Blame long and repeated deployments and life-altering injuries.
While President Bush was lauding democracy and freedom, there was a man in attendance whose rights were infringed upon. A prominent businessman from Florida who works with the Defense Department and has a security clearance.
The government is considering weakening laws designed to capture alleged war criminals and torturers who enter Britain. The changes would bar individuals from seeking international warrants for the arrest of people for serious human rights abuses.
In Attention Deficit Democracy, Bovard explains how supposedly free citizens have bought into the lies and frauds offered by the political class. A fair-minded account of what has gone wrong in America rather than a partisan attack.
A U.S. Navy construction battalion is battling the elements and daily insurgent attacks to build permanent bases in the dangerous Anbar province. At Al Taqaddum air base, one of two large airfields in the province used by the US and destined
The NSA's secret domestic spying hasn't nabbed any Al Qaeda agents in the US, FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress. Mueller said his agents get "a number of leads," but Osama Bin Laden's henchmen weren't at the end of t
The Pentagon recommended reducing the nation's nuclear missile stockpile by 10 percent, but left open where the reductions would be made. Five-hundred Minuteman III missiles are based at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, Malmstrom Air Force B
The perjury trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff won't begin until January 2007, after the midterm congressional elections, in timing that Democrats consider favorable to Republicans. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walto
Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame
Supporters of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby indicted last year on charges that he lied to FBI agents and a grand jury about how he learned CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity have raised a third of the $6 million t
We Americans have been paying an excise tax on our phone bills imposed back in 1898—get this—to help pay for the Spanish-American War. Well, that war ended before the 20th century even began, and we're well into the 21st century now
Its foreign bureaus were bombed by US warplanes, it is banned from reporting from 4 Middle East countries—and al-Jazeera is only growing in popularity. An interesting, and sometimes tragic path led to its success since its launch in Nov. 1996.
