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When 6-year-old Desre'e Watson threw a tantrum in her kindergarten class a couple of weeks ago she could not have known that the full force of the law would be brought down on her and that she would be carted off by the police as a felon
Following dramatic testimony today from a Connecticut librarian who successfully challenged an abusive FBI National Security Letter (NSL), organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers and writers called on Congress to restore the sa
Barack Obama has raised $25 million for his campaign to be president of the United States. Hillary Clinton has raised $26 million plus an extra $10 million transferred over from her senatorial campaign. John Edwards has raised more than $14 million
Turkey has complained to the United States over Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani after he reportedly threatened to interfere in Ankara's affairs if it continued to oppose Kurdish claims on the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, officials said.
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Posada was jailed in Venezuela for masterminding the October 6, 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines flight between Barbados and Cuba which killed all 73 on board. He later escaped and became involved with US CIA operations in Central America.
A judge violated a juvenile's free-speech rights when he placed her on probation for posting an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. They ordered the Putnam Circuit Court to set asid
Space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow rolled out a business plan to dot low Earth orbit with habitable complexes to serve 2 markets: “Sovereign Clients” that represent foreign space agencies and “Prime Clients” that come from multinational corporations.
Newt: "I am not automatically saying that coercion and bureaucracy is not an answer" - Not content with losing only a War on Drugs, Illiteracy, Poverty and Terror, bi partisan support is shaping up for a "War on Global Warming"
One time, I was the keynote speaker at a conference of public school teachers. When the master of ceremonies introduced me, some blacks in the front row cracked jokes about the Mafia. Ironically, the theme of the meeting was diversity.
Wall Street Journal and New York Times up to usual tricks attacking independent democratic leaders not subservient to US hegemony
Mortgage mess spreads to Alt-A segment - Subprime turmoil ensnaring companies that lend to people with good credit
(This is the SPIN Story) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have made progress in addressing the problems from their massive accounting scandals, though it is taking "much more time and money" to correct them than expected, the companies' regul
Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop talking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again. In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabete
Jim Morrison, native Floridan, one-time Florida State University student and charismatic rock star, could get a new label if fans have their way: pardoned criminal. Convicted of exposing himself during a notorious Miami concert in 1969
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law yesterday a measure that would circumvent the Electoral College by awarding the state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the most votes nationwide.
Convening in Doha, Qatar on April 9, the Gas Exporting Countries' Forum(GECF) has taken a first step toward creating an exporters' cartel at the intergovernmental level. However, the Western gas exporting countries -- Canada,Norway, and Holl
Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad - despite President George Bush's "surge" in troops - US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast
The US Treasury Dept has published a list of names that all Americans are responsible to know. If you do any business with the people on this list, you are subject to a potential $10 million and a 30 year prison sentence.
The US has expressed concern about and objection to Turkey's plans to establish a strategic alliance with Iran in the field of energy, according to Turkish Daily News. "We're watching the situation with concern," said a US diplomat
Australia is sending special forces commandos back to Afghanistan to hunt down leaders of the resurgent Taliban as part of a doubling of Australia's troop number there, Prime Minister John Howard said on Tuesday.
Russia is working on a space transport system that could eventually lead to the industrialization of the moon, a space expert said. Thirty-eight years after the US put the first man on the moon, Russia could reach it using Soyuz rockets
After 4 years of war, 3,200 American deaths, 23,000 US troops wounded and possibly in excess of 100,000 Iraqis killed, US policymakers are making their worst mistake yet: They may be on a new collision course with Moqtada al-Sadr.
You have the most consistent antiwar record of any congressman from either party. If one goes back and reads your speeches from years and years ago, they are just the same as the ones today – taking the strict antiwar position. This is obviously due
The commander and senior enlisted Marine of the Corps’ first special operations company have been relieved of duty. The firings occurred one month after members of the company allegedly killed 8 civilians after a Marine convoy was ambushed by a car b
A spurt of US trade sanctions on China has raised the prospect of an all-out trade war but experts believe cool heads will prevail as the stakes are simply too high for the two powers.
This week marked the fourth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein and the liberation of Iraq. On Monday, tens of thousands of Iraqis turned out to celebrate – which, according to one U.S. official, was proof that "Iraq, four years on, is now
Vanden Heuvel went on to defend the magazine, "The Nation magazine opposed this war from the outset because we understood what a disaster it would be. We never lost our head while too much of the media gave head."
A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report.
A CBS News producer was fired and the network apologized after a Katie Couric video essay on libraries was found to be plagiarized from The Wall Street Journal. The essay was removed from the CBS Web site and an editor's note was posted saying
