Presidential candidate John McCain suggests that since he and rival Rudy Giuliani are skipping the Iowa Republican Party's Straw Poll in August, it invalidates the results -- making a win at the Straw Poll for another candidate (Ron Paul :) meani
Jefferson allegedly accepted approximately $500,000 in bribes from numerous companies both in the US and in Africa and faces a maximum sentence of 235 years in prison if he is convicted on all counts.
On Kentucky Derby Drive in Moreno Valley, CA, the houses with "for sale" signs on their lawns boast Craftsman-style facades, roomy floor plans and granite-countered kitchens. Four of the nine have something else in common: They're owne
The Department of Justice is investigating whether or not a Kuwaiti construction firm contracted to build the US Embassy in Iraq has carried out human trafficking with its laborers, according to a report in Thursday's Wall Street Journal.
George W. Bush's 2004 campaign fund-raisers and contributors are being bombarded with appeals for money by Sen. John McCain's heavy-spending, money-short 2008 campaign.
McCain is concentrating heavily on the rich target of lawyers and lobb
Doctors at Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital came across something highly illogical when they tried to put an arterial line into a patient about to undergo surgery: his blood was dark green.
A French space-surveillance radar has detected 20-30 satellites in low Earth orbit that do not figure in the U.S. Defense Department's published catalog, a discovery that French officials say they will use to pressure U.S. authorities to stop pub
President Bush signaled Friday the United States will press ahead with a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe despite Russia's heated objections. Poland's president expressed support for installing interceptor rockets in his country.
Police departments around the country are relaxing age and fitness standards, forgiving minor criminal convictions and easing other requirements to relieve shortages in their ranks and find officers who are wiser, more worldly and cooler-headed in a
Today is the 58th anniversary of the publication of 1984, George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a corporatized totalitarian world where “Big Brother” is always watching and where the art of “double-think” is a way of life.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer ordered the 26-year-old socialite to serve her full 45-day sentence, spokesman Allan Parachini said in a televised news conference. Hilton screamed and called for her mother as she left.
PARIS: In a report issued Friday, the lead investigator for the Council of Europe gave a bleak description of secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe with information he said was gleaned from anonymous intelligence agents, many of whom wanted to unburde
The Bush administration sidelined Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcing plans to replace him as the nation's top military officer rather than reappoint him and risk a Senate confirmation struggle focusing on the war.
I just spoke with Ed. He said that one of his guests was out walking the dog and was forced to run back to the house under gunfire. According to Ed, two shot were fired at his retreating, unarmed guest, the bullets coming close to his head.
NEW YORK –- Morgan Stanley issued a "full house sell signal," saying three of its leading indicators — bond yields, Institute for Supply Management new orders, and valuation and risk — showed it was time to sell.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have developed a concept to send power to a 60-watt light bulb through wireless technology, allowing the bulb to glow using power from a device seven feet away. The concept of sending p
Every country goes through changes. However, stable countries are able to maintain their basic culture, identity, language, and heritage throughout the various gradations of societal evolution.
Armed units from the private security firm Blackwater USA opened fire in Baghdad streets twice in two days last week. It triggered a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, a reminder that the war in Iraq may be remembered mostly
H. L. Mencken once observed, "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." Nowhere is this more ev
A staff sergeant testified Thursday that he was ordered to destroy grisly pictures of women and children killed by Marines so that the images would not be part of a statement being prepared for an investigative officer and a magazine reporter.
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American diplomats are quietly urging the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq to take steps that would help ease the alarm over the Turkish troops amassed on Iraq's border.
Ankara, Washington, and Baghdad all rushed yesterday to deny an Asso
A large-scale invasion of Northern Iraq by Turkish forces would be a nightmare for the United States and could destabilize the one part of the country that is relatively calm. 50,000 Turkish troops poured into Northern Iraq to fight Kurdistan Workers
President Bush's choice to be his war adviser, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, said Thursday that the US military surge has given the Iraqi government a "golden opportunity," but Iraqi leaders aren't making the economic and political progres
More than 4 months into the "surge" strategy the statistics of US., insurgent and civilian casualties reveal an escalating war that may be entering a decisive "tipping point" phase. The Pentagon claims that since January, US forc
Syrian born arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar has been arrested in Spain and now faces extradition to the US for trying to sell weapons to Colombian rebels, US and Spanish authorities said on Friday.
British investigators were ordered by the attorney-general Lord Goldsmith to conceal from international anti-bribery watchdogs the existence of payments totalling more then 1 billion pounds to a Saudi prince, the Guardian can disclose.
A trial involving a controversial CIA program has started Friday in Italy, but without 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping a suspected Egyptian terrorist. The Americans, along with the former head of Italy's intelligence service