A respected think tank concluded Wednesday that the US has lost influence as a result of failing over the Iraq war, encouraging its detractors _ including Iran and Russia _ and jeopardizing stability in Asia and the Middle East.
The Defense Dept can expect problems with cash flow for continued military operations in the first few weeks of October while lawmakers scrutinize the almost $200 billion wartime supplemental funding request.
As we approach another 911 anniversary, it's time we learnt: 1) Who are these mid and high-level al-Qaida operatives? 2) What role did they play in planning 911? 3) What operational support did they provide? 4) Why they are still roaming free
As Federal Reserve policymakers look ahead to next week's decision on interest rates, staff at the central bank are continuing to work on other potential steps that could be taken to address liquidity problems in financial markets.
Commercial real estate deals are collapsing in many parts of the country including NYC. Like residential, no price was too high to pay for a building on misguided beliefs about property values. But vacancies are rising and rents are falling. A proper
The People's Republic of China has no firewall perched on its routers to enable censors to block Internet sites. The authoritarian regime relies on a censorship system uses a keyword blacklist and reach deep into Internet traffic to find forbidde
Small, ultrafaint "hobbit" galaxies recently found hovering around our Milky Way are comprised almost entirely of dark matter, a new study confirms.
Dark matter is a mysterious substance scientists think accounts for most of the mass in
A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly.
The dollar sank to an all-time low against the euro Wednesday amid speculation that the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates by as much as half a percentage point.
The 13-nation euro rose as high as $1.3889 in afternoon European trading —
A group of off-duty Chicago police officers instigated a bar fight with four businessmen that was partially caught on videotape. Six employees claim the officers started the fight for "no apparent reason."
Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of Central Command, derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March. Fallon told Petraeus he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" an
A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed
The next six months in Iraq are crucial -- and always will be. That noise you heard was the can being kicked further down the road leading to January 2009, when George W. Bush gets to hand off his Iraq fiasco to somebody else.
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) at the Petraeus-Crocker hearings: "Where is this going? … Are we going to continue to invest American blood and treasure at the same rate we are doing now. For what? The president said let's buy time. Buy time? For wh
Argentine-born, Montreal-based artist Cesar Saez's latest project is an ambitious one: at the cost of a million dollars, he plans to inflate a gigantic banana with helium and float it 20-30 miles above Texas. He and his team plan to float the mas
U.S. military officials in Iraq tell ABC News that a rocket used in an attack on coalition headquarters at Camp Victory Tuesday was made in Iran. Officials say the rocket, which narrowly missed its target, was fired from an area of Baghdad controlled
There was one question Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, couldn't, or wouldn't, answer. It was the question Petraeus posed rhetorically back in 2003 when he led the
The president is unconstitutionally wiretapping the telephone and Internet communications of millions of ordinary Americans. Companies like AT&T want immunity for their illegal collaboration. Congress let them get away with it.
Stop the Spying Now
On the morning of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends sought to 'debunk' conspiracy theories about the tragedy with the help of guest James Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics magazi
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court wants to suspend the law license of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., the former White House aide convicted in March of lying and obstructing justice in a probe into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.
Millions of inventions pass quietly through the US patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.
The police report improbably charged that Palacios solicited sex from the undercover officer, even as his wife sat in the passenger seat, and his daughter was on her way out from getting a beverage
In the past year, as soldiers and Marines return for the second, third or even fourth deployments, and the death toll approaches 4,000, some soldiers began questioning the war.
It is a measure of Petraeus's political skills that he was promoted to his present position despite being responsible in part for two of the greatest debacles of the Iraq war. In 2003/4 it was Petraeus who was in charge of securing Mosul from the
The conventional wisdom is that Mike Huckabee is a Real Nice Guy, and his soft-spoken manner gives superficial credence to this assertion, and yet, it is a lot of malarkey: aside from his demagogic appeal to naked emotion over logic and facts in his
As the 9/11 anniversary approaches, we should all be mindful of the degree to which our liberties have been eroded. "War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for
Many of the same mistakes made in the Vietnam War are being repeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, but neither the White House, Pentagon, nor U.S. field commanders seem to recognize or understand them. Gen. Petreaus will issue a report on the "progre
The sudden queasiness of lenders has cast a pall over the once-robust real estate market in the last six weeks, Cowan and other lawyers report. Deals have been interrupted mid-stride. Some have been re-jiggered and others have just died.