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The [Utah] House voted overwhelmingly to yank violent video games out of the hands of minors and punish as felons adults who provide such entertainment to children. Such games as "Resident Evil 4" and "Grand Theft Auto".
The Commerce Department reported that sales of new single-family homes dropped by 5% , that was the slowest pace since January 2005 and left the number of unsold homes at a record high of 528,000.
Authorities in Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, are to consider banning smoking in cars. A parliamentary inquiry will look at the effects of passive smoking on passengers, particularly children. Tough action should be implemented
Sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis according to Baghdad's main morgue. More than 3 times higher than reported by the US military and the news media.
The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34% down from 42% last month, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new high.
China condemned Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian for scrapping a council on eventual unification and it warned the US not to offer Chen any leeway. Chen declared an end to the National Unification Council and its 15-year-old unification guidelines
The U.S. government has agreed to pay $300,000 to an Egyptian man who sued after he was detained for nearly a year following the Sept. 11 attacks, his lawyer said. Elmaghraby, a former restaurant worker, was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center
Scientists have found what they believe are traces of the lost Indonesian civilization of Tambora, which was wiped out in 1815 by the biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
With out disclosing it, Rep. John Linder (R-GA), took a 5-day trip to Puerto Rico with his wife in August 1998. The trip was paid by a client of lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The White House Homeland Security released its post-mortem on Hurricane Katrina, with a review of lessons learned and a list of 125 recommendations. Predictably, the report contains the usual fawning references to His Majesty the President, a
Men who consumed the most cocoa had a 50% lower risk of dying from disease compared to those who did not eat cocoa, Dutch researchers said. Cocoa is known to lower blood pressure, though previous studies have disagreed about whether it staves off hea
Several years ago, Tamara Draut and her husband were sitting in the middle of their living room floor, thinking about selling their CD collection to raise food money. They struggled to repay $57,000 in student loans and $19,000 of credit-card debt.
Republican governors are openly worrying that the Bush administration's latest stumbles—from the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina to prescription drugs and ports security—are taking an election-year toll on the party back home.
Dozens of unpublished images (see story link) from Birmingham spanning decades of history of the early to mid 20th Century discovered in a closet at The Birmingham News. A good way to end Black History month. Interesting.
The battle between Election Officials and Election Integrity Advocates has been simmering and intensifying for some time. Last week, in Arizona, one such confrontation boiled over briefly into an outburst...
A secret report by a special prosecutor's office says that the Mexican military carried out a "genocide plan" of kidnapping, torturing and killing hundreds of suspected subversives during the so-called dirty war, from the late 1960'
General Randhir Kumar Mehta has disclosed that Liberia is now considered as a safe country ... thanked the Liberian people of their desire and readiness to return the country to a gun free environment that will boost investment.
There is growing anger among farmers in Helmand at the imminent destruction of their crops and, with it, their livelihoods. And some of this backlash is likely to be directed at British troops who have begun deploying in this area.
Governors of both parties said that Bush administration policies were stripping the National Guard of equipment and personnel needed to respond to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, forest fires and other emergencies. Governors normally command the G
In one incident of fighting in Tall Afar, Capt. Sarah Piro, 26, of El Dorado Hills, Calif. limped back to base in a bullet-riddled helicopter, ran to another aircraft and returned to the fight 10 minutes later.
Abu Farouq al-Suri, previously unknown to the media, was captured by the Wolf Brigade, one of several counter-insurgency units operating within the Shi'ite-run Interior Ministry but accused by Sunnis of targeting civilians in their communities
Iraqi authorities lifted a curfew in Baghdad imposed to halt a sectarian bloodbath caused by the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine. Traffic returned and businesses reopened, it appeared the 3-day lockdown on the capital had drawn the sting of violence
Federal judges halted 3 of the trials pending a US Supreme Court ruling on whether Bush had authority to create the tribunals to try foreign terrorism suspects after the 9-11 attacks. The Pentagon is proceeding with other cases; no one ordered it not
Lucrative opportunities taken away on a political whim; the danger of being locked up by an over-mighty government agency; the brick wall of protectionism - the business community expects to do battle with all these things in an emerging market.
Authorities have arrested 10 suspects believed to have carried out the bombing of the Golden Tomb Mosque last Wednesday that sparked the deaths of well over 200 in sectarian violence in the following days, four from the shrine's guards
President Bush may not like the arguments that critics are raising against the Dubai company attempting to take over cargo and cruise operations at ports in 6 US cities. He should recognize them. The president is stewing in a pot he brought to boil.
The fact is that Matrix filmmakers Larry and Andy Wachowski not only wrote and produced “V,” but they are the nominal directors. It’s got their fingerprints all over it.
Government costs us, but we can’t measure how much it costs us. Government taxes, regulation, borrowing, and inflation all create economic inefficiencies because they interfere with and nullify individual decisions.
Many adults in the United States believe the coalition effort should end soon, according to a poll by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute. 47.8% of respondents think the U.S. should pull out of Iraq now, while 44.1% disagree.
Today, at least 15 people were killed and 45 injured in a mortar attack in Dora, the police and hospital officials told Reuters. Dora is a mixed neighborhood in southern Baghdad that has been gripped by sectarian assassinations for more than a year.m
