The inspector general for the Defense Department said the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were boug
They found an unlikely reason to stay: Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican congressman from Texas who continues to run for president, even months after Senator John McCain has essentially sewn up the nomination.
Along a dusty two-lane highway in California's Mojave Desert, 550,000 mirrors point skyward to make steam for electricity. Google Inc., Chevron Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are betting this energy will become cheaper than coal.
Delinquencies for Alt-A mortgages rated between 2005 and 2007 are climbing, with total delinquencies rising as high as 17 percent in some cases, more than 6 percentage points higher than previous estimates....
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On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty.
A dramatic close-up of Lady Liberty's frozen gaze fills one of three flat-screen computer monitors mounted on a console. Hundreds of s
Kids love using their cell phones to send text messages. But now Manatee County has a new rule that say if teachers think the students are up to no good, those texts can be read.
"If we suspect kids are plotting together and we have that susp
Republican leaders say they will reschedule the convention some time in the next seven weeks after turning down all-expenses-paid space in Reno on June 7.
John McCain is having a Republican VP Pick Dog and Pony Show this weekend at his Sedona, Arizona ranch where three potential candidates will vie for the second slot on the Republican ticket in the upcoming November presidential election.
A chilling story out of London, about political correctness run amok: a 15-yr-old youth who was charged with a crime for calling Scientology a cult has had his charges dropped.
Imagine being able to spy on your neighbors… from 3470 miles away. Londoners can now spy on their New York neighbors with the help of the amazing Telectroscope. And vice-versa.
The heads of U.S. oil companies completed the second stage of their Congressional Big-Oil-Bash-Athon yesterday by answering questions from largely-economically illiterate congressmen–and women. Maxine Waters (D-CA) led the charge.
The legislation would require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything — to send their prints to the feds.
A lengthy exchange ensued, with Gravel becoming increasingly angry. At one point, a frustrated Gravel asked if what libertarians wanted was voluntary education. The crowd responded affirmatively.
SAN ANGELO, Texas - In a ruling that could torpedo the case against the West Texas polygamist sect, a state appeals court Thursday said authorities had no right to seize more than 440 children in a raid on the splinter group's compound last month
On March 13th 2008 there was a secret closed door meeting of The United States House Of Representatives in Washington. In the history of The United States this is only the fourth time a secret meeting was held by the house.
A senior U.S. official said Wednesday that a proposed treaty banning cluster bombs would hurt world security and endanger U.S. military cooperation on humanitarian work with countries that sign the accord.
The few who attended didn't get much further than who they were and where they were from when Welborn stood up to confront the group. According to Hall, Welborn threatened to use the meeting as justification to keep Hall from re-enlisting, as wel
Of the more than 450 FBI agents who served at Guantanamo, the report found almost half “observed or heard about various rough or aggressive treatment of detainees, primarily by military interrogators”. “The most frequently reported techniques include
One of the best encryption systems is called GPG encryption which is an open-source version of PGP encryption. I'll walk you through the simple process of setting up GPG and then installing a Firefox plugin that will make it easy to encrypt your
Two Border Patrol agents assigned to Southern Arizona are suing the agency, accusing the Tucson Sector chief of illegally retaliating against them for publicly exposing illegal vehicle stopping practices.
Below is a cheat sheet summarizing basic information about the terrorist defendants, the charges against them, and the key developments in their cases.
Tesler lied to support his partners' claims that they had valid information for a search warrant, but he later admitted the truth to the FBI, said his lawyer, William J. McKenney.
Congress enacted a massive farm bill Thursday with new and bigger subsidies for farmers, plus more food stamps for the poor. Both houses overrode the veto Thursday. Eager to begin Memorial Day vacation, the issue of helping starving countries was lef
Monsanto has agreed to pay all the clean-up costs of the Roundup Ready canola that contaminated Schmeiser’s fields. Also part of the agreement was that there was no gag-order on the settlement and that Monsanto could be sued again if further contamin
The follow-up to yesterday's story--cited by Natl Review, InstaPundit and Conservative Grapevine among other--about the 15-year-old London kid busted for calling Scientology a "cult". Ginn checked: the UK courts don't recognize Scie
A state appellate court ruled child welfare officials had no right to seize more than 400 children living at a polygamist sect's ranch. The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled the grounds for removing the children were "legally and factua