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Nearly six years after it shut down the nation's largest Islamic charity for alleged ties to terrorism, the U.S. government begins the high-stakes prosecution this week of five top officials of the Holy Land Foundation, accused of funneling money
The three are facing charges that they plotted to spread violent jihad through a murderous campaign around the world. But federal prosecutors say it is unnecessary to link the terror suspects to an actual plan of terror.
The U.S. Air Force's B-2 stealth bomber would be able to attack and destroy an expanded set of hardened, deeply buried military targets using a new 30,000 pound-class penetrator weapon that Northrop Grumman has begun integrating on the aircraft.
Over the years our Viewpoints section has featured some interesting essays by artists of various sorts, including Monty Python’s Terry Jones and chef-turned-author Anthony Bourdain. One piece I wish we had excerpted was this bit by English musician R
Once upon a time, a U.S. official's condemnation of torture was a statement of moral principle. Today, it is an opportunity for obfuscation. We have learned that when President Bush says, "We don't torture," it's important to re
Just when it appears that Israel and Syria may be slowly inching their way towards peace talks with the help of Turkey and Qatar (although Israel’s new president, Shimon Peres, called for direct talks Friday), two hawks at the otherwise realist Counc
Federal courts may have to revisit several drug cases in the Cleveland area after a paid government informant has admitted to lying under oath in several cases. One woman has already been released from a ten-year prison term, and charges against two
(Will you let this happen in your state?) Oregon officials are creating a biometric database of every motorist in the state that will ease a future transition to automated tracking and identification of residents.
The YouTube/CNN debate tonight continued the unfairness that has been prevalent throughout the debates thus far. The so called "frontrunners" get a much larger amount of time to speak than the "lesser" candidates such as Mike Grav
The foreclosure rate on Wisconsin homes remained high throughout the first half of 2007, driven by rising interest rates and the soft housing market, an industry monitor reported Tuesday. Wisconsin as a whole had 9,229 foreclosure filings in the
Lenders sent California homeowners the highest number of mortgage default notices in more than a decade during the second quarter, the result of flat or falling prices, anemic sales and a market struggling with the excesses of the 2004-2005 home-buyi
U.S. congressional rejection of a free trade agreement with South Korea would deliver a severe blow to U.S. standing in Asia, a top U.S. trade official said. "If we succumb to protectionism within our own borders and allow KORUS (Korea-U.S free
California's $7.8 billion prison reform plan will only make conditions worse behind bars, two federal judges said in ordering the creation of a judicial panel to recommend better ways to ease prison crowding.
A Pakistani Taliban leader blew himself up to avoid arrest by government forces near the Afghan border, 3 years after his release from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, officials said. Abdullah Mehsud, 31, spent over 2 years in Guantanamo.
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are
Republican Ron Paul has co-sponsored a bill with another presidential contender, Democrat Dennis Kucinich, that would repeal President Bush's authority to use force in Iraq within the next six months. Besides Kucinich, 18 other Democrats have sig
Life-long Democrat and award-winning Science Fiction author Orson Scott Card lashes out against the "false religion" of the "Church of Global Warming" and the "Hockey Stick Hoax" rebutting the common wisdom behind them.
A Champaign County, Illinois jury has acquitted a man of charges that he possessed cocaine intending to sell it.
Crude oil dropped $1.33 to $73.56 per-barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange at the market's close Tuesday as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries made it clear that it would be ready to pump more oil if needed.
The US military command in Iraq has drafted a plan that envisages US troops staying in the country for another two years, US military officials confirmed. [Coincidentally, just after Bush leaves office.]
The Summer of LOVEolution spreads across the country - the inside story,... and video.
Faithful readers of this column know of my burden for the pastors of America. Without informed, energized, and engaged pulpits, I see little hope for the maintenance of liberty and independence in this land.
The nation saw the largest drop in traffic deaths in more than a decade, which led to the lowest highway fatality rate ever recorded, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said. [But of course government wishes to take credit for killing fewer people.
The $100-a-barrel oil that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said would prevail by 2009 may be only a few months away. $95 crude is likely this year unless OPEC unexpectedly increases production, and declining inventories are raising the chances for $100 oil
One of Florida's leading Democratic rainmakers has called the whole thing off. A trial lawyer who has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats and helped raise much more, is so fed up with his party's failure to stop the war in Ira
Spouses don't belong on campaign payrolls, the House says, voting to end a practice that benefited members of Congress for years. Follows controversies in which lawmakers added many thousands of dollars to their family incomes by hiring relatives
Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, face the prospect of 10 years in juvenile detention and a lifetime on the sex offender registry in a case that poses a fundamental question: When is horseplay a crime?
The Taxi and Limo Commission (TLC) seized a vehicle belonging to a retired cab driver because he was offering free rides in his personally owned vehicle. The commission found a woman who would testify she offered Kottner a $10 tip to help pay for gas
We've discovered a 4.5 hour time frame each night when virtually anything can be brought into the secure side of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. There's no metal detector, no X-ray machine, and it's apparently not a problem.
Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker's office and adjoining hallway, authorities sai
