Private businesses such as rental and mortgage companies and car dealers are checking the names of customers against a list of suspected terrorists and drug traffickers made publicly available by the Treasury Dept., denying services to ordinary peopl
It's a rare chance to smell the scent of ancient history - typically a mix of natural spices and olive oil - thanks to an exhibit in Rome featuring fragrances from the world's oldest known perfume factory.
The chiefs of the Big Three US automakers pressed President Bush to create more government incentives for the development of ethanol and other biofuels. [I'm $ure he'll fork it over. He can alway$ get more.]
The Cassini spacecraft’s radar sweep of Saturn’s largest moon Titan in January revealed a portion of what appears to be a 110 mile diameter impact crater. If its impact origin is confirmed it would only be the 4th such crater discovered on Titan, a s
Gabriellee Cunningham had fallen behind on the mortgage on her modest suburban Miami home and was mired in debt when she was approached in June by a door-to-door "mortgage lender" who promised to help her.
Nine months later, her $89,000
Sales of new homes fell for a second consecutive month in February, dimming hopes for a rebound soon in the troubled housing market and raising fears about the health of the overall economy.
The Commerce Department reported that sales of single-fa
Teams assigned to make sure foreigners ordered out of the United States actually leave are grappling with a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and can't accurately account for the fugitives' whereabouts, the government reported.
Twins can be identical, fraternal and apparently semi-identical, scientists now report.
Researchers discovered twins who are identical on their mom's side of the equation but share only half their genes from dad.
Here's how it happened:
A waitress and aspiring model from Scottsdale has a shot at becoming the next Go Daddy Girl. Marisa Peck, 23, beat out 85 other contenders in a contest by a Scottsdale-based domain name registrar known for its racy Super Bowl commercials.
"This is the Lord's table out here," he tells more than 100 homeless men, women and children waiting for heaping plates of hot buttered potatoes, steaming scrambled eggs, sausages and 3 slices of bread. "I'm asking you to come
[perhaps this will stiffen the Democrat's spine] Americans overwhelmingly support a congressional investigation into White House involvement in the firing of 8 US attorneys, and they say President Bush and his aides should answer questions about
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he will try to block a Democratic effort to force troop withdrawal but won't stand in the way of the Iraq spending bill that would contain it because he knows President Bush would veto the package.
An Australian accused of helping the Taliban fight the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism, a step lawyers said would assure his transfer from Guantanamo to a prison in Australia.
OK, what’s this book about? It’s about what’s happened to the American government lately. It’s about the disastrous decisions that government has made. It’s about the corruption that rotted the Congress. It’s about how traditional conservatism has...
I'm a Christian. I believe this Ron Paul campaign movement, especially the groundswell on the Web, has the BEST chance of waking the sleeping dead in both the pews and the factories....and not a second too late.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's plans to sign a state medical marijuana bill put him head and shoulders above the front-running candidates for U.S. president in 2008. (really? is he for the elimination of the Drug War?)
The Plasma Converter consumes any type of waste—from dirty diapers to chemical weapons—it disintegrates trash into its constituent elements by tearing apart molecular bonds. The only by-products are an obsidian-like glass and ultimately hydrogen.
A tour-de-force performance by Ryan Thurston explores the underside of 911 - as you have never seen it before. A connect the dots on big money, power and influence, no building physics, no complicated facts.
As an abortion-rights advocate, Deborah Allen did not think she would find much in common with Mitt Romney. Then she heard his pitch. If elected Massachusetts governor, Romney said in an endorsement meeting, he would "preserve and protect
Delaware was the first state to ratify the US Consitution. It may be the first state to be afflicted with a fully operational death squad -- unless a civil lawsuit filed on Friday against the murders of Derek J. Hale results in criminal charges
The IMF will say further depreciatioin by the US dollar is needed to help correct global imbalances in its World Economic Outlook(WEO), Germany Sueddeutsche Zeitung said on Saturday. (Guess that means to buy more gold)
We find households in the lowest quintile of income receive roughly $8.21 in federal, state and local government spending for every dollar of taxes paid, while households in the middle quintile received $1.30, and households in the top quintile recei
Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Adminstration and a deputy in Karl Rove's political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier this year with top GSA political appo
Lawyers for New York City, responding to a request to unseal records of police surveillance leading up to the 2004 Republican convention in New York, say that the documents should remain secret because the news media will "fixate upon and sensat
The Pentagon is reviewing the charter of a controversial counterspy agency set up by former Defesne secretary Donald Rumsfeld after 9/11. The Counter-Intelligence Field Activity(CIFA) was supposed to "coordinate" counterintel and antiterro
Illegal Mexican aliens take jobs away from Americans in every sector of this society while overloading our schools, hospitals and prisons. Two weeks ago, President Bush signed a bill to allow over 10,000 Mexican 18 wheeler truck drivers free access t
Abu Ghraib prison is notorrious for images that surfaced in 2003 showing horrific abuses of Iraqis by US soldiers, but a new documentary aims to highlight the plight facing many innocent Iraqis by depicting the humdrum misery there.
"It is the policy of the Washington Post not to publish anonymous pieces," the newspaper declares on page A17 of today's edition. "In this case, an exception has been made because the author -- who would have preferred to be named
Si no entendemos la agresiva transición que vive el mundo hoy día, es porque realmente no queremos. Hace miles de años, nadie imaginó las consecuencias de la Revolución de la agricultura, pero las últimas 500 generaciones nos heredaron capacidades y