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[They would cease regulating the industry.] Telephone companies are trying to compete with cable to offer popular channels through their phone lines. But if federal government regulations are not modernized, that day may be long in coming.
Lawmakers determined to capsize the pending sale of shipping operations at 6 major US seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates said President Bush's surprise veto threat won't deter them. Bush brushed aside objections by
The US ambassador to the UN has called for meetings in the Security Council on allegations of corruption and sex abuse in UN peacekeeping missions, reigniting a dispute between the world body's power players and a group of developing nations.
Health-care spending [after government regulated it from competition] is outpacing the growth of the American economy and will consume 20% of US gross domestic product by 2015, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
An investigation into the private and public finances of Rick Santorum suggests that the Senate GOP might want to reconsider making him its ethics czar. The Santorums bought their oversized Shenstone “estate” even though his financial disclosure form
After months of trying unsuccessfully to develop a plan on the war in Iraq, Democratic Party leaders are beginning to coalesce around a nebulous plan to begin a quick withdrawal of US troops and install them elsewhere in the region, where they could
Sources said it was during this time that Libby, Hadley, Joseph, Hannah and Rove plotted to silence Wilson by leaking his wife's name to reporters. It's unclear what role, Cheney played, but Fitzgerald is trying to determine if the VP was inv
Radiation detectors in Britain recorded a 4 fold increase in uranium levels in the atmosphere after the “shock and awe” bombing campaign against Iraq. Evidence that depleted uranium from the shells was carried by wind currents to Britain.
The governing council of Karbala province said it was suspending contact with US forces over the behavior of soldiers during a visit to the governor's office, followed similar moves by Maysan and Basra provinces with British forces in southern Ir
For more than a year, the German government has criticized the US for abducting a German man in Germany, and taken to an prison in Afghanistan, where he was held and tortured for 5 months after being mistaken for a terrorism suspect. German offici
The meat industry has quietly begun to spike meat packages with carbon monoxide. The gas gives meat a bright pink color that lasts weeks. The industry will save much of the $1 billion it loses annually from having to discount or discard meat
The ice worm inhabits glacial regions in the coastal ranges of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. The odd creature easily moves through ice, is liveliest near the freezing point of water and dissolves into a goo when warmed.
That the US Senate has a body called the Intelligence Committee is an irony George Orwell would have appreciated. In a world without Doublespeak, the panel, chaired by GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, would be known as the Senate Coverup Committee.
When Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) disparaged an earmark for Seattle— $500,000 for a sculpture garden—Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) was scandalized: "We are not going to watch the senator pick out one project and make it into a whipping boy."
What is remarkable in this latest poll, conducted Feb. 15-18, 2006, is that President Bush shows weakness among the demographic groups that have comprised the heart of his political base over the past 5 years. Among both conservatives and those who c
2 Republican governors are threatening legal action to block an Arab company from taking over operations in major US ports and some GOP lawmakers say the deal should be closely examined. NY Gov. Pataki and Maryland Gov. Ehrlich
Following the Post's report that the US was considering using military bases in Georgia as a platform for a possible attack on Iran, the Georgian chief of General Staff denied the claims. "This is utterly absurd," Levan Nikoleishvili, t
A specific timetable for withdrawal would greatly diffuse the insurgency. Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress argued that timetabled extraction would give the Iraqis the incentive to get their act together,
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was mistaken [lying, sic] when he said twice last week that the US military had stopped the controversial practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
Wilkes said that Congress had "earmarked" $25 million in the military budget for the Navy to develop an acoustical system. He promised he could win the government contract to develop the system for Beck's Horizon Sports Technologies
Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes defended the conditions at Guantanamo prison saying the detainees were not criminals, but warriors who were arrested for waging a war against the US or helping al-Qaida or the Taliban in their wars.
A little-known 15 month old board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties of citizens are protected in the fight against terrorism. Someday, it might actually meet.
3 years after his arrest, and more than 2 months after a federal trial returned no convictions, Dr. Sami Al-Arian remains behind bars. In December, jurors acquitted the former University of South Florida professor on 8 of 17 charges related to finan
The US and Britain are pressuring Iraq's dominant Shia community to relinquish two key ministries in negotiations for a new government. The US ambassador to Iraq warned that Washington might cut aid to the Iraqis if the new government included s
For 28 years, Paul Pillar worked for the CIAas a National Intelligence Officer. Upon retiring he went public. He alleged the Bush administration selectively chose intelligence to justify its already made decision to go to war.
Series of close-up photos of B-2 stealth bomber at air show from take-off, mutiple flybys with various functions exposed, and landing. Good narration.
Zhao told fellow bloggers not to worry. If the government objected to his blog, he predicted, Microsoft would "sell me out" and delete it rather than risk being blocked from computer screens across China. He was right. Officials called Micr
More than 30 state legislatures are considering limits on the power of local governments to condemn private property and transfer it to real estate developers to spur economic growth. "This is the crucial year for the eminent domain issue,"
A developer told local residents that he wanted to buy all the homes on the block, tear them down and build condos, retail shops and parking garages. He made it clear what would happen to those who refused to sell: eminent domain.
The first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain. Clovis points match up much closer with Solutrean style tools, which researchers date to about 19,000 years ago. This suggests that the American people
