In a bunker beneath the bustling streets of central London, guards monitor a grid of closed-circuit television.
The center, at a secret location, is run by a private company in association with the police and local council.
Dan Bartlett, a member of President George W. Bush's Texas inner circle and an aide for more than 13 years, announced on Friday he is resigning as White House counselor effective July 4.
Kokesh's anti-war activity and his correspondence with Marine investigators has rankled the military enough that it is working to revoke the veteran's "honorable discharge" designation.
The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator. He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from every one of his fellow soldiers: "When are we going to get out of here?
Even as troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are serving longer and more often _ three, four, even five times _ roughly half of Americans in uniform have not been sent at all.
That's partly chance, partly a matter of timing. It also illustrates the
Recent court filings made by the Bush administration have shed new light on the White House's strategy to keep confidential the visitor logs of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
The U.S. is not preparing for war against
Iran and Vice President
Dick Cheney supports that policy, Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice says, taking a swipe at a U.N. official who says he's worried about "crazies" who want to star
A violent crime spike in four cities led the Justice Department on Friday to dispatch additional teams of federal agents to combat guns, gangs or surging murder rates in Mesa, Ariz.; Orlando, Fla.; San Bernardino, Calif., and San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telesolicitors. [Outsourcing to India?]
A television show in which a woman would donate a kidney to a contestants was revealed as a hoax Friday, with presenters saying they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ donation laws.
An IL man accused by the Environmental Protection Agency of operating an illegal dump was found not guilty Thursday of defying an order by the agency that closed off his property.
The Good, the Bad,... and the Ugly...In 2006 he served on the advisory board of the legal defense fund for I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, who was indicted and later convicted of lying during the investigation of the Plame affair. (Ouch)
Is it true that Fred Dalton Thompson, former republican senator from Tennessee and current actor is seen by GOP leaders as a “Ron Paul” vote killer? If so, the rhetoric may not match the facts, political observers say.
Since 9/11, the US government has spent billions of dollars and devoted its best minds to building a system to prevent a terrorist or a person infected with pandemic flu from entering the country. Now, it turns out, all it takes to thwart the nation*
New Hampshire becomes the fourth state to allow same-sex civil unions, joining Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey, and the first to do so without a court order or a pending lawsuit. Only Massachusetts allows same-sex marriage.
Having grown up in a small town in Central Kansas I was taught to believe that my country, the United States of America, was a land committed to justice and peace, a nation that one could count on to do the right thing, a country of civilized folks w
The Science channel will be airing a show about new energy featuring Joseph Newman on Friday June 1st and Saturday June 2nd. The show is called Beyond Invention and you can see a schedule of air times here on the Science channel website. A NEW SCIENT
Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-TX) has done it again. He has introduced a
great bill into the House of Representatives, The Health Freedom Protection Act, H.R. 2117. This bill is of monumental importance to your health and health freedom. Short, pith
Sudan was prepared to retaliate massively: They would cut off shipments of the emulsifier gum arabic, thereby depriving the world of cola. "I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the U
The FBI has increased its use of secret search warrants over the past two years because of a "high tempo of terrorist activity," a top official said yesterday.
FBI Assistant Director John Miller said the 2,176 Foreign Intelligence Survei
Scientists who spent a year photographing orangutans in the rain forest say the trait probably evolved in ancient apes navigating the treetops long before ancestors of humans climbed to the ground. But it's more in tune with fossil evidence,
President George W. Bush intends to nominate White House adviser David McCormick as U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, the White House said on Thursday.
McCormick, 41, is now deputy national security adviser for international
The World Bank's former chief economist attacked its proposed new chief Robert Zoellick as a man of protectionism and said his nomination was a "wasted opportunity" for the bank.
Two-thirds of Americans can now see that starting a war in Iraq was a mistake. The majority of Republicans still do not see it. Eventually they will, but it's hard to go against their own president unless one of their own makes them do it.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied that America has nixed Israeli talks with Syria, but still appeared to throw cold water on the idea when questioned about it Tuesday.
Elliot Abrams, the deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy, is again sowing the seeds of conflict in the Middle East. This time it's in the disputed Western Sahara, under Moroccan control following the end of Spanish colon