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Germany's constitutional court has scrapped a law allowing the military to shoot down passenger planes suspected of being hijacked for terror attacks. The government had no right to kill those on the plane to try to save the lives of others.
After meeting with farmers disgruntled over confiscation of their land near Beijing, the middleman who engineered the encounter asked if the journalists were satisfied with the interview. If not, he had other stories to offer. "How about underg
It is not often that the menu of a presidential inaugural dinner provides insight into a country's development plans. At the dinner for Bolivia's Evo Morales— the fare included coca cake, coca cookies, coca wine and coca sweets.
America's major NATO allies have cut military manpower and defense funds as a share of their economies since the 9/11 attacks, in sharp contrast with the US, which embarked on deficit spending to boost arms outlays to fight global terrorists.
Once again, after playing to a “full house” in Austin, Texas this past weekend, the theater crowd stood and cheered for Aaron Russo’s new film, “America…From Freedom To Fascism.” Russo, who had personally introduced the film at the WTP Foundation’
Senior members of the Democratic party, including Democratic Leader Harry Reid, Richard Durbin and Dianne Feinstein, have said they will vote for the new deal. Sen. Russell Feingold launched another lonely filibuster against the Patriot Act, but spon
"It is normal for countries to manage the Internet in accordance with law and to guide its development in a healthy and orderly fashion. China has also borrowed and learned from the US and other countries in the world."
The Patriot Act is headed toward renewal with broad Senate support for a White House-brokered compromise that adds modest new civil liberties protections to the terror-fighting law. "The outcome here is absolutely predetermined," Senate Maj
Iraq's Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in the country, after 10 more men were shot execution-style and dumped. US soldiers had detained 22 Iraqi men wearing police uniforms
Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the US it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet.
He's fat, ugly and poisonous—and he's mutating. He's the cane toad introduced into Australian that has since become an ecological catastrophe. They can hop up to 1.1 miles a night, a record for any frog or toad. But even more remarkable:
Republicans may change the rules allowing former senators to attend weekly GOP luncheon meetings after retired Sen. Lauch Faircloth got caught attended a session while lobbying a bill pending on the floor.
Vice President Dick Cheney says he has the power to declassify government secrets, raising the possibility that he authorized his former chief of staff to pass along sensitive prewar data on Iraq to reporters.
Vice President Dick Cheney said he may be called as a witness in the case of his former aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who faces perjury and other charges in the leak of a CIA operative's identity. "I may well be called as a witness
The Wall Street Journal poll said the president received a 58% "negative" rating, up from 56% last month, despite State of Union rallying speech. With 40% of US voters giving Bush a "positive" rating, down from 43% in January.
A federal judge ordered California to reformulate the lethal-injection method used to kill condemned inmates, saying the original might be unconstitutionally painful.
The law makes it a crime to anonymously "annoy, abuse, threaten or harass" another person over the Internet. It carries a prison sentence of up to two years and an unspecified fine for those convicted of violations.
In the Name of Allah,which explores the struggles of homosexual Muslims. Gay Indian Muslim Parvez Sharma is directing the movie, which looks at gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
A top-secret meeting was then underway between Savimbi and his boosters, led by a young American Republican activist named Jack Abramoff. He was there representing an organization he founded, the International Freedom Foundation. The group was codena
Mr. President, in June of 2004, 10 peace activists outside of Haliburton, Inc., in Houston gathered to protest the company's war profiteering. Unbeknownst to them, they were being watched. U.S. Army personnel at the top-secret Counterintelligenc
"Ultimately I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry," Cheney said in his first interview since the incident. "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend, and that's something I'
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Jan. 5, 2006 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been selected to develop "military-grade," solid-state laser technology that is expected to pave the way for the U.S. military to incorporate high-energy las
The USDA plans to make every owner of even one horse, cow, pig, goat, sheep, chicken, or pigeon register in a government database and subject their property and animals to constant federal and state government surveillance, and the animal owner will
As Americans confront the grasping machinations of George W. Bush in regards to their rights we must recall why the Constitution would not have been ratified without each of those Amendments, but most especially the First Amendment.
The president of the Flemish Socialist Party, Johan Vande Lanotte, believes that in 10 years time the number of Belgian troops should be cut from 40,000 to 20,000, with the remaining soldiers integrated into a still-to-be-created European army at a l
In the decade since they voted to join the European Union the islanders of the Aland archipelago in the Baltic Sea have been outvoted and overruled by Brussels, time and again. Now they'll teach Brussels a lesson in democracy it may never forget.
"Once you can take any kind of information and reduce it into ones and zeros, you can do some pretty interesting things," says Daniel T. Kuehl, chairman of the Information Operations department of the National Defense University in Washing
Surveillance cameras might soon be required at corner taverns and swanky nightclubs. Mayor Richard Daley wants to identify people entering and leaving the building, eventually including convenience stores, would have to do the same.
Congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Obey of Wisconsin, introduced a bill, H.R. 4694, that would end viable, third-party competition in races for the U.S. House of Representatives.
When the government of Malaysia sought to repair its tarnished image in the U.S. by arranging a meeting between President Bush and its controversial prime minister in 2002, it called on lobbyist Jack Abramoff for help.
