A group of 18 corporate giants intends to share information, issue cease-and-desist orders to offenders, and try to expand its reach to almost every financial institution that matters. The aim: to snuff out the spread of smut by 2008.
Children, including a baby, were sexually molested while others in a private Internet chat room watched, U.S. and Canadian law enforcement officers said in announcing the bust of an international child pornography ring. [Good timing.]
[Lotsa luck!] Republicans, worried that their conservative base lacks motivation to turn out for the fall elections, have found a new rallying cry in the dreams of liberals about censuring or impeaching President Bush.
A Dubai-owned company is giving itself up to six months to sell all $700 million worth of its newly acquired U.S. port operations to an American buyer, a plan forced by congressional concerns over terrorism security.
Undaunted by the difficult war in Iraq, President Bush reaffirmed his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy nations and said
Iran may pose the biggest challenge for America.
[Someone hand this guy a mirror.] President Bush said Iran may pose the greatest challenge to the United States and diplomacy to thwart the Islamic nation's nuclear program must prevail to avoid confrontation.
Team USA still has a chance to win the World Baseball Classic thanks to
South Korea. Now, it's up to Roger Clemens and his teammates to take advantage of the opportunity. Chan Ho Park and four relievers combined to pitch a six-hitter, Jong Beom
Fighting for a death penalty in a 9/11 case, prosecutors are beseeching a federal judge to reconsider her decision to exclude half the government's case against confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.
Iraq's parliament met briefly for the first time since it was elected in December but talks on forming a national unity government are deadlocked and the session did little to halt a slide to civil war. What might have been the crowning moment of
At loggerheads with the USover its nuclear programme, Tehran said it was ready to negotiate with the "Great Satan" to help stabilise neighboring
Iraq. President Bush has stepped up its accusations about Iranian "meddling" in Iraq
The US is concerned about China's military build-up and Beijing should make its intentions clear, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says. She was confident the UN would take action on Iran, which she called the "central banker of terrorism
Using GNEP's new fuel technology, called UREX-Plus, the US could end its 3-decade moratorium on reprocessing spent nuclear fuel intended to keep plutonium from spreading, officials say. "The goal of GNEP is recovery of the energy in a way th
Liberal hues began to multiply in 2004, when Democrats seized control of the general assembly for the first time in 30 years. They intensified last fall, when voters loosened TABOR, a government- spending chastity belt long extolled by fiscal conserv
As the UN Security Council wrestles with how to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions, discussion at UN headquarters is at times as much about the council's effectiveness and America's role in the international community as it is about Iran.
Iraqi Shi'ite religious leaders' restraining influence on militia groups is waning fast and senior clerics fear they are dragging Iraq into civil war, a source close to the clerical authorities said. Sounding the most urgent note of alarm yet
State prosecutors seized four computers from a newsroom as part of a grand jury probe into whether a county coroner gave reporters his password to a secure law enforcement Web site, the newspaper said.
Thousands of victims duped into slavery or prostitution in the United States fail to get help, even though U.S. prosecutions of human traffickers are on the rise, a report released on Wednesday said.
As if the distractions of the March Madness tournament didn't bedevil bosses enough, advances in technology could reduce productivity to a crawl this year. There's CBS SportsLine.com's free webcast of 56
NCAA men's basketball games i
The current Arizona Governor, Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, has reportedly been complying with these rules, as she recently vowed to attend "50 parties in 50 hours" one weekend, in order to secure those Lincolnesque donations from the requi
Pakistan is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and was long regarded as a de facto nuclear power that "could assemble a limited number of nuclear weapons in a relatively short timeframe." India’s May 11 and 13, 1998, nuclea
Sony will put off the release of its much awaited PlayStation 3 console until November. Issues over the finalization of copy protection technology related to the Blu-ray disc drive were the cause for the delay. The delay would allow for the latest HD
Just 15% of Americans believe it is "very likely" that the US will succeed in Iraq. Fully 54% believe that there will "never" be a stable democracy in Iraq—up from 31% in 2003. Just 29% reported believing that the US is winning th
Reports From the Future of Iraq Project. Over 1,200 Pages of Previously Unavailable Reports From State Dept Planning for Post-Saddam Iraq. Warnings and Recommendations by Experts and Iraqi Exiles Ignored by Administration
Prominent activists inside Iran say President Bush's plan to spend millions of dollars to promote democracy here is the kind of help they don't need, warning that mere announcement taints them as American agents. [That's the plan.]
A NJ lawmaker's attempt to legislate civility on an Internet discussion board runs into a wall of opposition from bloggers who saw it as an attempt to stifle free speech. "We were pretty much taken off guard when got hit with a couple hundre
There is, at present, confusion about the closure date of Abu Ghraib. The US is uncomfortable under the global spotlight on its prisons and torture policies in Iraq. Rather than moderate their policies to accommodate democratic and legal guidelines,
The US does not have proof that Iran's government is responsible for the presence of Iranian weapons and military personnel in Iraq, the top US military officer said. Donald Rumsfeld said the US may slightly increase its troops in Iraq from the c
For months the Democrats have resisted calls from their liberal base to more aggressively challenge President Bush. Now a maverick senator has forced his party and Congress to confront the question of whether Bush should be punished for ordering warr
American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past 5 months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the US plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of US ground troops serving here.