Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the US Treasury Dept for taking ailing Sept 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko," the AP has learned.
Would this Administration plot another 9/11? They have motive. With popularity looking at negative numbers, indictments looming, the economy in the tank and Venezuela making themselves a target (would they try to morph al Qaeda into El Karumba, a ha
MUST SEE video of Severm Suzuki, a 13 year old girl, Pleading for the future of her generation. This girl has more GUTS and BRAINS than all our leaders put together. If this doesn't shake you nothing will.
"Even when we have more than
Leahy, who has co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to repeal the provision, spoke out as the debate intensified over the Real ID Act, which requires states to create new tamper-proof driver's licenses in line with rules recently issued by the Dep
The proposal from the upper house of parliament, which also calls for a date to be set for the withdrawal of foreign troops, suggests that Afghan support for the 5 1/2-year international military mission is crumbling amid a series of civilian deaths.
A U.S. Army brigade commander in Afghanistan yesterday told the families of 69 civilians who were killed or wounded by members of an elite Marine Special Forces unit he is "deeply, deeply ashamed" about the incident, describing the series o
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is considering running for president in 2008, stopped just short of threatening impeachment against President George Bush on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopo
Britain is moving one step closer to becoming a "cashless society" with the launch of a radical new way of paying.
Experts say it is another move towards a world where plastic cards are "king", turning cash into a relic from th
President Bush is said to have assured the government of Saudi Arabia that the US will not withdraw from Iraq in his presidency, according to a little-noticed remark in a column in Wednesday's Washington Post.
On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable f
Months before the US invaded Iraq, Pentagon planners were developing an elaborate propaganda campaign to ensure US government-"approved" information was broadcast to the Iraqi public, according to a previously classified White Paper release
Prosecutors issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues.
The eight were among 13 prison employees who had already been fired from the 60
Police raided the premises of leftist groups in cities across Germany on suspicion of a plot to attack next month's G-8 summit. More than 900 federal and local police officers in cities including Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen searched some 40 apartm
Defense officials told the U.S. House of Representatives that it could take about three years to try 60 to 80 Guantanamo Bay inmates identified as terror suspects who could be successfully prosecuted on war crimes charges before military tribunals.
The 11-year-old boy was led from his school in handcuffs, held overnight in a juvenile detention center, and hauled into court in shackles and an orange prison jumpsuit.
His crime? Missing a court date to testify as the victim of an assault.
An air strike by foreign forces killed 20 to 30 villagers, including women and children, in southern Afghanistan overnight, a governor and a witness told AFP. The new claim of civilians dying in operations against Taliban fighters comes after nearly
The White House announced Wednesday that President George W. Bush extended for one year sanctions against Syria for what Washington says is its support for terrorism.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will press ahead with a new Iraq funding bill, despite a White House veto threat and a cold Senate reaction to a bill that would dole out combat funds in pieces and force a July vote on withdrawing troop
Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer's "Iliad."
The yellowed, brittle materia
After documenting more than $140 million in Medicare fraud in south Florida, federal officials said the will take a more thorough look at other providers of medical equipment. An investigation in the Miami area has led to 38 arrests
"We just think that should happen at the border," she said. "We feel like they're moving the border further north and giving up on the area south of the checkpoint like we're a no man's land." Cullen, who has a Ph.D. i
To those who say the Internet arcs toward the trivial, try this on for size: Currently, the most searched-for phrase on the blog aggregate site Technorati.com is Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
Judy Weil submits: Here's our summary of articles and data points on the housing market. It's part of Seeking Alpha's coverage of the real estate market and homebuilder stocks.
WMR has confirmed with extremely knowledgeable CIA and Pentagon sources that the former CEO who is on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's list is Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was CEO of Halliburton during the time of his liaisons.
REAL ID is fundamentally flawed, and DHS' proposed regulations do nothing to change that. Thankfully, the tide is turning against REAL ID in a big way -- state legislatures around the country are passing or considering legislation rejecting its i
Enacted into law in 2005 as the Real ID Act: "Secure identification should begin in the United States. The federal government should set standards for . . . sources of identification, such as driver's licenses." 2 years later, some stat
Visiting US Vice-President Dick Cheney has met Iraq's political leaders and US army chiefs to discuss security and attempts at political reconciliation.
Arizona Senator (R) Karen Johnson has ushered through a bill that challenges the Federal Government's attempt to brand us all. Remember when the Republicans use to be against national IDs when Clinton was in office?
(Don't mess with authoritieeeeeeee) A British civil servant and an aide to a legislator were convicted Wednesday of leaking a classified memo about a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush in a breach of the Official Secret