Within living memory, Southern Nevada high schools had rifle ranges and competitive shooting teams. Kids brought their .22s to school; no one thought much about it.
Up until 1989, Nevada had no restrictions on teachers carrying weapons in the sch
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding the master key for the DNS root zone - a demand that has other nations alarmed. With the master key, DHS would have control over the Internet, as
DEmocracy obviously isn't working any more. Perhaps we need
some REmocracy for a change, as in REaffirming, REestablishing,
and REvitalizing our political system!
It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet it keeps warming to life. Seventy years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up. Long-dismissed notes taken of a shortwave distress call beginning, "This is Amelia Earhart…,"
The Bush administration has launched a campaign to isolate and embarrass Syrian President Bashar Assad, using parliamentary elections in late April as a lever, according to State Department officials and Syrian exiles.
The soldiers who were there still talk about the September 7 firefight on the Iran-Iraq border in whispers. At Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the main U.S. military outpost in Iraq's eastern Diyala Province bordering Iran, U.S. troops recount e
A key Internet oversight agency put the brakes on plans to construct an online red-light district, rejecting for a third time a proposal to create a voluntary ".xxx" address for pornographic Web sites.
The U.S. has failed to change its ban on Internet betting to comply with a
World Trade Organization ruling that said the legislation unfairly targets offshore casinos, the global trade body said.
DVD jukebox company Kaleidescape has prevailed in its court case against the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA).
While the trial was originally thought to test the boundaries of "fair use,", Judge Leslie C. Nichols of the Santa Clara
Scientists have taken the temperature of Earth’s innards, more than a thousand miles beneath the surface, and found that the mercury there soars to about 6,650 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s nearly as steamy as our sun, where the surface reaches 9,980 de
Oh Yeon-Ho firmly believes in the slogan that hangs over the door of his office: "Every citizen is a reporter."
It's a motto that has driven him to create one of the world's biggest and most influential "citizen journalism**
The Bush administration condemned plans by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit Syria and possibly meet its president, who the United States has accused of helping destabilize the region.
A French architect claimed to have uncovered the mystery about how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu was built - with use of a spiral ramp to hoist huge stone blocks into place.
A US military tribunal gave Australian David Hicks a nine-month prison sentence in a plea deal that will see him free by the end of the year after admitting to training with Al-Qaeda.
Just seven days after Pat Tillman's death, a top general warned there were strong indications that it was friendly fire and President Bush might embarrass himself if he said the NFL star-turned-soldier died in an ambush, according to a memo obtai
A Saudi terror suspect says US interrogators tortured him for 5 years and he confessed to involvement in the bombing of the USS Cole just to satisfy them and "make the people happy," according to a Pentagon transcript of a military hearing
In Coldwater Creek, a middle-class housing development outside Atlanta, the neighbors mind their own business and respect each other's privacy - ideal conditions, it turns out, for growing marijuana in the suburbs.
The week-old standoff between London and Tehran over the Iranian detention of 15 British naval personnel sent oil prices surging past 69 dollars here -- a near seven-month high -- and analysts warned they could rise further.
Sheriff Leo McGuire presides over foreclosure auctions in Bergen County, New Jersey, where the bidding for a home reaches $1.2 million last June -- a record for one of the wealthiest counties in the nation.
(OMG, how did we survive) For three decades, US inspectors visited 250 meat processing plants as rarely as once every two weeks despite federal law requiring daily inspection, Agriculture Dept officials admitted to lawmakers on Thursday.
San Diego FBI chief Dan Dzwilewski, who was rebuked by superiors for publicly defending ousted US Attorney Carol Lam, has announced his retirement. Dzwilewksi, who has been at the helm of the San Diego office since July 2003
You wouldn't be wrong to wonder if Iran hasn't lost its mind seizing the 15 British marines and sailors, and in so doing, handing Bush a casus belli even he couldn't have imagined. But then you'd be missing the grim fatalism
Over the years, I have been as outspoken a critic of the mainstream press as anyone. For one thing, the vast majority of mainstream media celebrities seem infatuated with liberal politicians.
The two men showed up on Tuesday afternoon to evict Suaada Saadoun’s family. One was carrying a shiny black pistol. Ms. Saadoun was a Sunni Arab living in a Shiite enclave of western Baghdad. A widowed mother of seven, she and her family had been cha