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Systems based on video cameras, laserlight, infra-red, audio recordings and eye tracking technology will scour crowds looking for unusual behaviour, with the aim of identifying people who should be approached and quizzed by security staff
NY Times asks readers to tell them how they would attack if they were terrorists. How about arranging for a year long subscription? They closed the list after 8 hours and 600 suggestions.
What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions. The National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down in the Livingston-Rand
South Carolina is poised to hold its Republican presidential primary earlier than Feb. 2, 2008, likely in mid-January, a move that is expected to push New Hampshire and Iowa to follow suit. Such shifts could mean the first GOP nominating contest c
akistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s government is not ruling out imposing a state of emergency due to “external and internal threats” and deteriorating law and order in the volatile northwest near the Afghan border, a spokesman said
More than 1,000 civilian contractors have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion more than four years ago, according to Labor Department records.
Pelosi is set to square off against Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), the power-lifting chairman of the House gym committee. Efforts to secure funding in the legislative branch spending bill to begin an $8 million renovation of the House gym.
The President of the National Young Republicans, under allegations of sexually harassing another man, has resigned from his post. ..."had the blankets pulled up over the waist of [redacted] and was committing oral sex on him when he awoke."
An Army investigation has found no truth in a soldier's claims of inhumane conduct by US troops on the battlefield. But the magazine is standing by its story, and debate over Scott Thomas Beauchamp's honesty continues to rage in the blogosphe
The US is considering a request from the British Foreign Office to release five former UK residents from Guantanamo Bay detention center.
The US now has only uncertain, high risk options in Iraq. It cannot dictate Iraq’s future, only influence it, and this presents serious problems at a time when the Iraqi political process has failed to move forward in reaching a consensus or peaceful
Although Iraq has a democratic government, Iraqi Christians were safer and had more protection under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said the future head of the Vatican's interreligious dialogue council.
They've done it again. The Arabs have, once more, followed democracy and voted for the wrong man. Just as the Palestinians voted for Hamas when they were supposed to vote for the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, so the Christian Maroni
William Kristol published a manifesto, “Why Bush Will Be a Winner,.” It reassured the Bush presidency would “probably be a successful one” and that “we now seem to be on course to a successful outcome” in Iraq. The president liked this piece so much
Mortgage applications in the U.S. rose last week by the most since January, as cheaper borrowing costs encouraged more Americans to seek loans for home purchases and refinancing.
The Bush administration is becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of an imminent British withdrawal from southern Iraq and would prefer UK troops to remain for another year or two.
Laptop road warriors beware: Wi-Fi hot spots that let you hop onto the Internet anywhere you travel leave you wide open to hackers. T-Mobile and AT&T— the largest providers of Wi-Fi hot spots in coffee shops, bookstores and airports — don't requi
With the U.S. mortgage market in turmoil, Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday proposed clamping down on lending abuses and providing more aid to families who face losing their homes.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned on Tuesday it was a mistake for U.S. lawmakers to blame American job losses on global competition and use it as an excuse for passing protectionist trade laws aimed at China.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer pieced together records concerning 63 of 92 police DUI arrests in recent years. An ordinary citizen refusing a breath test has a 16 in 17 chance of losing his license. Only one in four cops faced the same punishment.
Dozens of TSA agents recently setup checkpoints at Indianapolis bus stops and searched passengers trying to peacefully ride city buses. Air Marshals patted people down, searched bags, and performed "behavior" tests to intimidate the traveli
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has given the White House another 12 days to hand over documents it requested nearly six weeks ago regarding the adminstration's legal justifications for its warrantless wiretapping program.
US to boost aid from $24 to $30 billion over the next 10 years. Washington now considering requests to add regular annual sum instead of current additional 4%.
They've given me a machine gun and 180 rounds of ammo, and told me not to pee for six hours.
As world attention focuses on the daily slaughter in Iraq, a devastating disaster is impending in the north of the country, where the wall of a dam holding back the Tigris river north of Mosul city is in danger of imminent collapse. "It could g
People chasing "high yield" CDs are losing their life savings even in FDIC accounts. FDIC insurance is the problem because it causes money flow to the riskiest banks. This is a huge moral hazard as it provides funding for malinvestments suc
The US government is closing in on a deal with Mexico to launch a major fight against the violent drug cartels there ... which would include telephone-tapping equipment and radars to track traffickers as they ship the drugs.
Director of communications for the Ron Paul Campaign, Jesse Benton, stated today that the Iowa GOP would charge the Paul camp $184,000 if they wanted to verify a paper count of the coming Iowa straw poll. Today, on the Dale Williams radio show, Mr.
Ernest Hancock shares some personal opinion and makes some predictions. We'll check back later to see how he did.
The all-but-declared candidate collected $1.5 million less than the $5 million predicted for June. In July, Thompson sidelined his campaign-manager-in-waiting, Tom Collamore, and watched other aides follow him out the door amid consternation inside t
