Rudolph Giuliani told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as NY City Police C
The government yesterday awarded AT&T, Qwest Communications International and Verizon the largest telecommunications contract in history, leaving Sprint Nextel out of a deal worth up to $48 billion over the next 10 years.
Two McLean [and 2 Arizona] High School students have launched a court challenge against a California company hired by their school to catch cheaters, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violates copyright laws.
Coming soon to a minivan near you: Satellite television. DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group announced limited satellite TV service for its 2008 Dodge and Chrysler minivans and several other models, continuing its plan to turn the family cruise
President Vladimir Putin last year called for measures to aid Russian producers. The government promptly decreed that all foreigners be banned from working in markets from April 2007 and that Russian nationals take their place.
Google's popular map portal has replaced post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery with pictures taken before the storm, leaving locals feeling like they're in a time loop and even fueling suspicions of a conspiracy.
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From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fool's Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history. Here are 10 of the top April Fool's Day pranks eve
Ecuador's highest electoral court fired a judge who tried to return half the country's legislators to their posts as a political crisis over the rewriting of the country's constitution deepened. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal fired 57 of
Foreign banks are putting their bets on Vietnam, attracted by its booming economy and a large youthful population eager to have all the consumer goods and services the modern world has to offer.
Congress and the Bush administration should work together to allow the U.S. to permanently imprison some of the more dangerous Guantanamo Bay detainees elsewhere so the facility can be closed, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Every year, the federal government pours hundreds of thousands of dollars into the area, restoring oil rigs for tourists to see, building tourist motels in the shape of railroad cars, and you see that investment in the quality of bike trails that rec
The city's police chief announced a wave of policy changes in response to a November drug raid that ended in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman.
Arab leaders wrapped up a summit where they relaunched a five-year-old blueprint for peace in the Middle East, although Israel has rejected the plan as it stands.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $2.9 trillion budget that Democrats said imposes fiscal discipline on the federal government and that Republican opponents said will lead to huge tax increases. The nonbinding resolution would spend more m
Suicide bombers killed nearly 130 people in a crowded market in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad and a mainly Shi'ite town, one of the bloodiest days in Iraq in months. [The Surge is working.]
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was more deeply involved in the firings of 8 US attorneys than he has sometimes acknowledged, and Gonzales and his aides have made a series of inaccurate claims about the issue in recent weeks, the attorney general**
THE SCANDAL unfolding around the firing of eight US attorneys comples the conclusion that the Bush adminstration has rewarded loyalty over all else. A destructive pattern of partisan political actions at the Justice Dept. started long before this in
With suicide bombers continuing to strike targets around Iraq, David Satterfield, the State Dept's point man for Iraq, pointed the finger directly at Syria during a Washington lunch speech today, reports US News senior writer Kevin Whitelaw.
Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a widely respected advisor to the US military, has released a blistering report on the current situation in Iraq. McCaffrey's findings are based on interviews with dozens of officials during a March, 2007, trip to t
An attorney Thursday accused police of fatally shooting an unarmed man without provocation a year and a half ago, then fabricating tire tracks to make it look like an officer had been run over by a car.
Clint Bolick, Senior Fellow, Goldwater Institute - Matthew Ladner, Vice President for Research, Goldwater Institute - Alex Molnar, Director, Education Policy Studies Laboratory, ASU - John Wright, President, Arizona Educat
Less than 20% of the population believes they were given the full truth regarding 9/11. It wasn't for lack of trying that the government failed in its propaganda campaign. It wasn't for lack of "helping hands" in the mainstream medi
The mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and other life 65 million years ago apparently did not, contrary to conventional wisdom, immediately clear the way for the rise of today’s mammals.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Arab leaders the American occupation of Iraq was illegal and warned that unless Arab governments settled their differences, foreign powers like the US would continue to dictate the region’s politics.
An anti-war group, Code Pink, is hounding Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) at almost every stop she makes on the campaign trail, hitting her again yesterday as she joined other candidates in seeking a union endorsement.
Shiite militants and police enraged by deadly truck bombings went on a shooting rampage against Sunnis in a northwestern Iraqi city, killing as many as 70 men execution-style and prompting fears that sectarian violence was spreading outside the capit
Insurgents have stepped up rocket and mortar attacks on Baghdad's international Green Zone where most Iraqi government offices and the U.S. embassy are located, a senior U.S. military spokesman said.