Scientists have discovered the universe's largest known planet, a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that is 20 times larger than Earth and circling a star 1,400 light-years away. Scientists believe the planet is 1.7 times the diameter of Jupite
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) introduced a resolution as Congress prepared to break for the August recess Saturday, urging President Bush to boycott the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Waters and others involved in the effort to end the humanitarian crisis in
Sig Christenson of the San Antonio Express-News ridicules comments by politicians, laments the lack of reporters covering the war, and cites ground rules that are crippling for photojournalists. He says the media aren't pressing for answers
Happy six-month anniversary, US attorney scandal! (And what do you get for the scandal that has everything?) The half-birthday of the purge scandal's explosion onto the front pages last February brings a new round of attempts to explain
Imagine someone created a web site with the sole purpose of allowing voters in one state to "swap" preferred candidates with voters from another state: would such a site count as illegal vote-tampering? Several sites were promptly smacked d
Other GOP Presidential hopefuls have supporters. Ron Paul on the other hand is quoted as having followers or that he is running an insurgency campaign like that of Barry Goldwater in 1964 as John Derbyshire over at the National Review Online has stat
Following this weekend's Republican debate in Iowa and some extensive mainstream coverage and sound bytes., Presidential candidate Ron Paul's odds to become the next Commander-in-Chief have been slashed further from 15 to 1 to 8 to 1.
There were fears in Washington that politically damaging information might be unearthed about America's role propping up Saddam during the 1980s. "Once Saddam's regime was overthrown the Bush Administration made sure that instead of an i
[You're terminally ill and a judge has really pissed you off...hummm.] Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to experimental drugs not approved by regulators, a U.S. appeals court ruled. The Food and Drug Administration requi
The High Court ruled that restrictions imposed by police on Parliament Square anti-war protester Brian Haw, as he continues his peace camp demonstration were unlawful "by reason of lack of clarity".
A new law expanding the government's spying powers gives the Bush Administration a 6-month window to install possibly permanent back doors in the nation's communication networks. The legislation was passed hurriedly by Congress over the week
The Rev. David Blanchfield paused before addressing the issue of why he has not voiced his opposition to the Iraq war from the pulpit. "I'm probably out of my mind even talking to you," he said. The United States violated the Catholic p
Raymond Przybilinski socked away $521,000 from a lifetime of driving trucks, working overtime when he could and playing the piano or accordion late into the evenings at weddings, hotel bars and social clubs.
"There is an overwhelming presence of neoconservatives and absence of traditional conservatives that I don't know what to make of," said Richard V. Allen, former Reagan White House national security adviser.
This is Bush's most brazen defiance of the Constitution, which is no small feat for an administration that sets its own rules on electronic surveillance, torture, kidnapping, designating "enemy combatants" arrested on US soil, held ind
Michael Bloomberg, the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent mayor of New York and his equally surveillance-enamored police commissioner is giving Mr. Blair a run for the money as the most surveillance-hungry public official in the world.
| Two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee say Condoleezza Rice was their informant on sensitive national security matters. The claim, laid out in a courtroom Friday, April 21, intensified the drama surrounding a trial th
The New York City Council, which passed a symbolic citywide ban on the use of the n-word, has turned its linguistic (and legislative) lance toward a different slur: bitch.
The term is hateful and deeply sexist, said Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Br
US business travelers and tourists flying to the European Union are facing the threat of the same laborious registration requirements that Washington has demanded of Europeans in the latest US security crackdown.
Barry Bonds raised both arms over his head like a prize fighter in victory, fists clenched — and then he took off. It was over at long last. Like him or not, legitimate or not [he is], he is baseball's new home run king.
Airlines and aviation-related companies sued the CIA and the FBI on Tuesday, asking a federal court to let them interview investigators who can tell whether the aviation industry was to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks or whether it had acted rea
US troop levels in Iraq hae hit their highest point of the more than four year old war, with the numbers swelling to nearly 162,000 because of overlapping unit rotations, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman
A government watchdog group warns that New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the nation's nuclear weapons design laboratories, has again experienced a security failure of 'the most serious' level.
Germany, which last week became the first Ruropean country infected by the woes in the American mortgage market, suffered another blow Monday when a Frankfurt-based asset management firm closed one of its funds to halt withdrawals by rattled investor
The media seem to be saying that this is the financial markets's expectation now that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac might loosen some of their lending restrictions. Fannie and Freddie are implicitly back up by the government(taxpayers).
The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the US, hinting it may liquidate its vast holdings of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
I therefore invite the reader to consider the possibility, however remote, that we could see the following. Hillary Clinton, the consummate insider, vs. Ron Paul, the career outsider. I know how most people on this site would vote, but I ask you to
Mary Tiffany is the Iowa Communications director that I communicated with yesterday. Today I received offers to pay for a privately funded Manual verification if the count would be done immediately. I left Mary a message I would stop by,... THEN...
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