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The cherished dinner hour void of telemarketers could vanish next year for millions of people when phone numbers begin dropping off the national Do Not Call list. The Federal Trade Commission, which oversees the list, says there is a simple fix. B
Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader's death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in Iraq. "It's out there. All w
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who as New York mayor backed gun control and sued firearms manufacturers, sought a middle ground Friday with skeptical gun-rights activists.
U.S. troops arrested an Iranian man during an early morning raid on a hotel in this northern Iraqi city Thursday and accused him of helping to smuggle a deadly type of roadside bomb into Iraq. But the Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement c
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the threat posed by Iran may force the U.S. to consider a preemptive strike, and conceded that the Iraq war, which he advocated, has made the Middle East "less stable.''
Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art.
If you or I made or bought some unregistered machineguns, we'd be at risk of prosecution. Things would be even worse for us if we exported them to people on the State Dept.'s list of terrorist groups. But if you're Blackwater, the U.S.
Gilpin County Sheriff in Colorado, Bruce Hartman, talks to Ernest Hancock about his authorizing roadblocks so a private company could take DNA samples of motorists.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization
The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about. The nation's biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress
Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India? Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of US diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis -- an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago. That's the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist
Beginning in Feb, 2008, US Customs and Border Protection(CBP) will implement their "Advance Passenger Information System(APIS), "the gist of which is that you will need permission fromthe US Government to travel on any air or sea vessel tha
The US military has drafted a five-year plan(Soviet style planning) to develop the Iraqi Air Force. Under the plan, officials said, the Iraqi Air Force would more than double over the next year. In a Sept 17 briefing, US Air Force Lt. Col Greg Zehn
Henry Kissinger echoes this view in his op-ed. "Iran has legitimate aspirations that need to be respected," he writes -- but those legitimate aspirations do not included control over the oil that the US and other industrial countries need.
The US Treasury on Friday said it would suspend sales of state and local government series securities(SLGS) next week to prevent the federal government from braching its statutory debt limit. The move to close the "slugs" window is the fir
Adm. William Fallon , the head of U.S. Central Command, said Iran's Revolutionary Guard is supplying roadside bomb parts for the type of sophisticated and deadly bombs found in Iraq known as explosively formed penetrators.
Satyajit Das is laughing. It appears I have said something very funny, but I have no idea what it was. My only clue is that the laugh sounds somewhat pitying. Das, who knows as much about global money flows as anyone in the world, stopped chuckling l
Iraqi forces have taken the lead for security in only eight percent of Baghdad's neighborhoods more than eight months after the start of the US troop surge, a senior US commander said Friday.
Almost a year ago a group of white students hung three nooses from a tree in front of Jena High School. This set into motion a season of racial tension and incidents that culminated in six Black youths facing a lifetime in jail for a schoolyard fight
The District Attorney came to the school accompanied by the police and demanded that the students end their protest, telling them, "I can be your best friend or your worst enemy... I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen."
Can't decide if good or bad. Maybe having readers in the hands of the populace will finally show people what is really being tracked. Or make RFID more cool & prevalent? Publisher's note: It'll be bad when you can't turn them off
"So far, prices have dropped only slighly. But it was enough to cause alarm around the world," he said. "Prices are going to fall much lower yet."
Israel reportedly warned the United States that North Korea might be sharing nuclear know-how with Damascus before it carried out an air strike deep inside Syria.
In my 2005 book Weapons Grade I predicted that police would soon be using micro air vehicles developed for the military. I didn’t realize it would happen quite so soon.
The Senate voted to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top military commander in Iraq of betrayal, because the Senate had nothing better to do.
Neither the Fed nor Congress appears likely to contain the foreclosure wave that is on pace to hit 1 million or more homeowners next year. Rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, after all, can go only so far toward resolving issues that extend far beyond
Tens of thousands of protesters demanding freedom for one of six black teens initially charged with attempted murder for beating a white schoolmate may get their wish as early as today. As demonstrators from San Jose to Philadelphia descended on J
Republican presidential candidate John McCain lobbed a thinly veiled attack at fellow rival Rudy Giuliani, describing the former mayor's "devious" attempt with a lawsuit "to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers." Giuliani said
The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation.
