U.S. military commanders are talking with Iraqi militants about cease- fires and other arrangements to try to stop the violence, the No. 2 American commander said Thursday.
Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno said he has authorized commanders to reach out to
The Loch Ness monster is back _ and there's video. A man has captured what Nessie watchers say is possible footage of the supposed mythical creature beneath Scotland's most mysterious lake.
[hummmm] U.S. troops battled al-Qaida in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni Arab residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to hu
A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said.
The biker swerved and sped away, causing the officer's car to hit a civilian car. That car rolled down an embankment onto the Outer Loop, triggering a collision involving five other cars.
"Despite unfair laws, harsh penalties, false evidence and a prevailing 'DUI exception to the Constitution,' the rate of alcohol-related fatalities is actually increasing," wrote attorney Lawrence Taylor, author of the DUIBlog websit
Since joining the Army in 1987, he had risen to the rank of sergeant first class, serving in both Gulf Wars, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Korea. He has shrapnel scars, a Purple Heart and is back after his last tour in Iraq. One e-mail derailed his career and
There are four states in the Republican primaries on which GOP presidential candidates may focus, early on. But candidate Ron Paul (R-Tex) could devote the most resources to two of them: Arizona and New Hampshire. The other two, Iowa and South Caroli
Is Mitt Romney the "economic conservative" he claims to be? Especially when it comes to tax and spend policies? Now that he's running for president, let's compare his words with his deeds.
Two more US soldiers have been killed in Iraq confirming that May had become the deadliest month for American forces in two-and-a-half years. Meanwhile, the hunt was continuing for five Britons who were snatched at gunpoint from a finance mini
The average illegal alien will infect from 10 to 50 Americans depending on public contact. Where do illegal aliens work? They wash your dishes, cook your food and stand next to you at the local grocery store.
Halliburton's former engineering and constructioin subsidiary has a contingency contract with the Dept of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.
Spc. David William, 22, of Boston had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joe Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, NC., the first of five "surge" brigades to arrive in
A Sunni police chief praised by US forces for clearing his city of insurgents has been arrested following an investigatioin into alleged murder, corruption and crimes against the Iraqi people, the US military said Wednesday. Col. Hamid Ibrahim al-Ja
The man suspected of poisoning ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko has said it could not have happened without the involvement of British secret services. Andrei Lugovoi, who denies the allegatioins, told a Moscow new conference
A lot of people right now, seem to be thinking it might make stark sense to vote third party. All across the blogplanet one can read post after post from writers on the left, right and middle, fed up with two parties who’re coughing a 2 cylinder engi
New operatives, Hayden said, are being asked to take more risks. The agency's new mission — targeting transnational terrorist groups as well as rival states — is causing CIA to stretch to produce "non-traditional" cover identities for u
Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of self-described "deviant" thinkers: science-fiction writers. [Apparently some writers should spend more time r
President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said. [The Hundred Year War.]
A man with a rare and exceptionally dangerous form of tuberculosis has been placed in quarantine by the U.S. government after possibly exposing passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month, federal health officials said Tuesda
A Saudi Arabian detainee at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay apparently committed suicide in his cell Wednesday, the U.S. military said. It was the fourth suicide at Guantanamo since the prison camp opened in January 2002.
Bulgaria and Turkey's center-right parties narrowly clinched enough seats to tilt the EU parliament to the right. It marks a shift of European voters preferring right-wing parties over left-wing ones.
Investigative reporter Greg Palast says 4.5 million votes will be shoplifted in 2008, thanks largely to the “Rove-bots” that have been placed in the Justice Department following the U.S. Attorney firings. Being the guy who uncovered the voter “purge
G8 Justice and Interior Ministers on Friday endorsed the setting up of a global biometric database proposed by Interpol. Interpol Secretary Ronald K. Noble views this database as a vital escapes of terrorists and other dangerous criminals
Controversy rages over the war in Iraq, but what about the so-called other war in Afghanistan, for which there is strong bipartisan support in the US and in the international community? Is there a danger of losing in Afghanistan? The answer is yes
More than any other single person, Jerry Falwell was the embodiment and single most recognizable icon of the Religious Right. However, the association is even deeper than that.