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U.S. forces in Afghanistan expect violent clashes with al Qaeda-linked insurgents in coming months before security improves later in the year. The NATO alliance is preparing to expand its mission to the more volatile south and ultimately east, raisi
Casio watches, worth less than $30, have become part of the web of "evidence" against detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The US military cites the digital watches worn by prisoners when they were captured as evidence of terrorist ties.
An FBI mistake linking an Oregon lawyer, a Muslim convert, to the 2004 Madrid train bombings was a "watershed event" that led to improved fingerprint identification but more needs to be done, according to a federal report.
The 1% rate of friendly fire deaths for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is substantially lower than in other major military conflicts, attributed to better training and high-tech equipment. [Of course major hostilities ceased.]
American hostage Tom Fox has been killed and his body, showing signs of torture, left at a garbage dump in Baghdad, police said. Fox, who had been in Iraq to campaign against the US occupation and to work for the release of Iraqis held by US forces,
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died, the UN tribunal said on Saturday, just months before his trial for genocide and war crimes in the Balkans wars in the 1990s was expected to conclude.
The number of cigarettes sold in the US in 2005 fell to the lowest level in 55 years largely due to enforcement of marketing restrictions imposed on the tobacco industry, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) said.
After motorist T. Allen Morgan got a speeding ticket in Coopertown — a town known for its heavy-handed traffic enforcement — he tried to pay his ticket like a good citizen. But he added a little note on his check which angered Mayor Danny Crosby.
If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood. Hope to spark discussion even if they lose.
Many of the American kids I taught lacked the motivation, self-discipline or work ethic of the foreign-born kids. Until the work ethic of students changes, until they are willing to put in the time and effort to master their subjects, little will ch
President Bush, under pressure from nervous Republican's up for re-election, and a federal deficit acquired under his tenure that has bankrupted the nation, asked Congress for legislative authority to hold back spending appropriations
Americans have been deluded into believing they need government. They never did; Americans can do it for thmselves, and in fact, that is where America came from. Time to reboot.
Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit. This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. They don't know how they did it.
A New York Times article reports that last July's discovery at Purdue is under close peer review,... but shhhhhhhh.
Should we be worried?... Why?
Last June, the U.S. Navy signed on too, awarding ISS a $50 million contract to be the “Husbanding Agent” for vessels in most Southwest Asia ports, including those in the Middle East, according to an unclassified Navy logistics manual, for the Fifth F
Resistance to foreign ownership of U.S. port operations spilled over into the aviation arena when a congressional committee told the Bush administration to postpone a plan to allow more foreign control of domestic airlines.
Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. From the same two clients he took to the White House in May 2001, Abramof
The chief of an Indian tribe represented by the lobbyist Jack Abramoff was admitted to a meeting with President Bush in 2001 days after the tribe paid a prominent conservative lobbying group $25,000 at Mr. Abramoff's direction, according to docum
Civil liberties groups asked federal courts to halt the Bush administration's program of domestic eavesdropping, saying it violated the privacy and free speech rights of US citizens. Republican senators were working to allow eavesdropping without
"In the wiretapping ... you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation," says a congressional historian at B
The case was brought by two former Custer Battles employees under a Civil War-era law that allows individuals to file lawsuits in secret on behalf of the government. Under the law, the cases are sealed while the government determines whether to join
A vocal critic of Pentagon policies on religion in the ranks filed court papers alleging that an Air Force recruiter in New Mexico was asked "to use Jesus Christ as a recruiting tool."
Moussaoui became "an obsession" of international terrorism investigators in the Minneapolis office. The effort intensified when top bureau officials at FBI headquarters in Washington refused to support requests for warrants to search Moussa
President Bush signed the expanded Patriot Act, hailing it as vital to the war on terrorism, but a key congressional critic said it lacked adequate safeguards for civil liberties. Congress made 14 of the Act's 16 sunset provisions permanent
The US views Iran's disputed nuclear weapons program as a test for the UN Security Council that should be addressed urgently but in a cautious and deliberate manner, US Ambassador John Bolton said. Or else the US might look elsewhere to punish Ir
Consumer confidence dropped in early March to an 86.2 ranking, as people fretted about the economy's performance and their own financial fate in the months ahead. That was down considerably from February's reading of 96.1.
Iraqi authorities have no intention of continuing to use Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison after the US military ends operations there in the next few months, Iraq's justice minister said. [And we just spent so many $millions to redecorate.]
More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency.
Casino Royale goes back to Bond's roots, when he makes his first two assassinations and earns the 00 status that gives him a licence to kill. Published in 1953, it was the first book in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.
