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The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn again to a legal tool, the "state secrets" privilege, to try to stop a suit against a Belgian banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the
The US financial industry displayed fresh signs of distress from the credit crunch afflicting global markets yesterday, with one mortgage provider describing lending conditions as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told his followers Thursday that he would rescind his order "freezeing" the operations of his powerful militia if military raids on his offices did not cease in the next few days, according of officials of Sad
The FBI disclosed new details about its secretive technology for tracing telephone calls and recording conversations during criminal, terrorism and espionage investigations, custom-made tools it has developed quietly for a decade.
(I'm glad to see taxpayer money being spent wisely) Now, the Dept. of Homeland Security is using game technology to help shore up defenses at home. ABC News is reporting that for the past year, the government agency has spent $600,000 funding Gr
(Seems free markets aren't a part of China after all) Foreign acquisitions of Chinese companies will be subject to stringent new checks intended to protect national economic security under a new law passed Thursday. After 13 years on the drawing
Find out the real story of why Bush is suggesting a bailout of the mortgage mess. Mish has the details.
How government and business shamelessly mock worker rights.
The iconoclastic "Dr. Paul" is a libertarian advocate of minimalist government, a foe of the Federal Reserve and anything else not explicitly allowed by the Constitution, and perhaps the most antiwar candidate in the race. Thanks to the unp
The Teamsters Union said it has been told by officials in the Transportation Department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that the first Mexican trucks will be coming across the border on Saturday.
The School Board granted access to groups to present alternatives to military service to high school students. After a 2 1/2-year ban, antiwar groups such as Veterans for Peace will be allowed on high school campuses to present an alternative to the
A hearing was set on rape charges, but after harsh pre-trial questioning, Hernandez decided not to testify. At that point the Air Force brought lesser charges against all 4 airmen, citing Hernandez for underage drinking and "indecent acts."
THE US President, George Bush, has given his strongest indication yet that he intends to continue with plans to increase troop numbers in Iraq after the September 15 report to Congress, when he delivered an upbeat assessment of military progress and
In hundreds of heavily censored pages, the FBI described in unprecedented detail a sophisticated surveillance system known as the Digital Collection System Network and another program called Digital Storm to record conversations.
Craig was arrested June 11 in an airport bathroom by Karsnia, who was working undercover. Karsnia said Craig exhibited behavior in the men's restroom that was "often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct."
Proposal would levy $2.8 million in fines to Alltel, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular for failing to meet E911 coverage requirements.
Imagine cramming 30,000 full-length movies into a gadget the size of an iPod. Scientists at IBM said they had moved closer to such a feat by learning how to steer single atoms in a way that could create building blocks for ultra-tiny storage devices.
Standing in a small room in the Iraqi home they'd raided an hour earlier, a dozen soldiers from the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division were trading jokes when 1st Sgt. Troy Moore, shouted out.
Federal agents spied on the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for several years after his assassination. Coretta Scott King was closely followed by a government concerned she might "tie the anti-Vietnam movement to the civil rights moveme
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported "significant" cooperation from Iran with its nuclear probe but noted it was still enriching uranium. Tehran had slowed uranium enrichment. Iran said it proved it was the target of unfair U.S.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari demanded Iran stop firing artillery and mortars at Kurdish villages in Iraq and warned that more attacks could damage relations. "We're not that weak that everyone can meddle and bomb us and we will keep
In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said it won't make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush, but instead will allow top commanders to make individual presentations.
Millions of homeowners around the nation are now getting the news in the mail: The interest rate on their home loans is going up, possibly to double-digit levels. [Bailouts for billionaire bankers in the works.]
Republican Fred Thompson will officially launch his presidential bid Sept. 6 [this time for sure?] in a Webcast on his campaign site [or on Leno], followed by a five-day tour of early primary states.
After meeting President Bush in the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, French President Nicolas Sarkozy came away convinced his U.S. counterpart is serious about bombing Iran's secret nuclear facilities.
Bernanke proves he cannot distinguish problems from solutions. He proposes "creative thinking" and new mortgage products authored by Congress to get us out of this mess without thinking that cheap money and creative thinking created the hou
Martin Sadler of PC firm Hewlett Packard warned the amount of personal data that could be collected would lead to difficult ethical dilemmas. "Maybe the first time you know you are pregnant is when a targeted piece of advertising comes through o
One thing I find most interesting about the whole Ron Paul Revolution is that it seems much more than just part of another American Presidential Election--it is something of an international phenomenon. The world is watching us; let us not let them d
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ARM rates disconnect from treasuries. There is panic at the short end of the yield curve and a consortium of notables is clamoring for rates cuts. Barack Obama has his own plan, best described as being from outer space. But nonsense will not end unti
