The US economy is struggling on several fronts, with housing, manufacturing and retail activity losing steam, the Federal Reserve said. It also cited "upward pressure on prices from rising materials and energy prices," a sign of inflation t
A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain about school administrators shouldn't have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court.
Files in a laptop computer seized from the wreckage of a Colombian rebel camp in Ecuador offer new insights into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's desire to undermine Colombia's U.S.-allied government.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain trails Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in hypothetical matchups. Obama leads McCain by 12% -- 52% to 40%; Clinton leads McCain by 6% -- 50% to 44%, the poll found.
Threats against federal judges and prosecutors are on pace to rise for the fifth consecutive year. In response, federal officials are expanding their surveillance efforts to include suspects who have threatened state and local authorities
A growing underground network of young people armed with computer memory sticks, digital cameras and clandestine Internet hookups has been mounting some challenges to the Cuban government in recent months, spreading news that the official state media
Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod. The photograph shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside holding Sullivan's hand and cradling on
Nearly 40,000 people learned a trip to the doctor may have made them sick. In a scandal associated with Third World countries, a Las Vegas clinic was reusing syringes for 4 years. Led an outbreak of fatal hepatitis C virus and HIV exposure
The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations "aimed at tracking terrorists and spies."
Officials in Michigan and Florida are showing interest in holding repeat presidential nominating contests so that their votes will count in the epic Democratic campaign. The governors of both states, along with Clinton's campaign, are now saying
Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant smuggling. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. But instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes that their boss in Washington recently iss
If that were to happen, it may well mean that the president and vice-president intend to take military action against Iran before the end of this year and don’t want a commander standing in their way.
An English travel agent had 80 websites blacklisted by the United States government. The Treasury Department ordered [the ISP] eNom to disable Marshall’s tourism sites because they helped Americans evade travel restrictions to Cuba.
A bizarre exchange before the AZ House on Tuesday seemed a victory against the NAU, but left puzzled looks on the faces of onlookers who had been hoping for substantive debate.
High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.
We asked each campaign to submit 500 to 1,000 words on the issues they believe are the most important ones facing the nation at this moment in time. Here is what Ron Paul had to say.
Despite predictions and claimed polls to the contrary, Ron Paul kicked Chris Peden's ass across the board in their U.S. Congressional District 14 Republican Primary race in Texas. Here is a quick look at the election results:
I'm lying flat on a cactus-spiked ridge above the desert north of Phoenix, clutching a Barrett M107 long range sniper rifle. It's a semiautomatic cannon that spits Macanudo-sized .50-caliber rounds at 2,850 feet per second with enough force t
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.
The US plotted to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government in the Palestinian territories, documents obtained by Al Jazeera reveal. One of the documents appears to show that Washington tried to persuade Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian pre
"The man led away in handcuffs," Geist wrapped, "and hopefully taken to one of those secret prisons in eastern Europe, never to be heard from again. We can only hope."
The mere utterance of opposition to the whims and whimpers of those in self supposed authority is punished, viewed as a form of terrorism. The mistreatment of activists who challenge legislation is something we must challenge immediately
Being the only state to regulate the amount of alcohol that goes into a standard shot, Utah is considering raising the alcohol limit to 1.5 ounces from 1 ounce while enacting a host of new liquor-related rules.
The United Nations condemned what it saw as lax enforcement of Britain's drug laws due to the increased availability of cocaine. U.K. police are increasingly turning a blind eye to celebrity cocaine consumption.
With forclosure rates seen skyrocketing nationwide, politicians now support measures not seen since The Great Depression. President Bush, Hillary Clinton and the State of New York are proposing legislation enacting moratoriums on home forclosures.
Several pastors and church related ministries have publicly declared that they are taking on the IRS in this election year in a no-holds-barred fight. . . .
It appears that well over 100 U.S. Citizens were recently discovered sitting in Homeland Security Detention facilities around the country awaiting deportation orders after being denied access to counsel.