Russia and China pledged to cooperate more closely in producing oil and gas, and the Russian president vowed to go forward with a much-anticipated pipeline to carry Siberian oil to fuel China's booming economy.
Basque separatist group ETA declared a permanent ceasefire in its struggle for independence from Spain. A ceasefire would be the first step in a long-awaited peace process with ETA, which has killed 850 people since 1968 in its fight to carve an inde
Taxpayers not paying attention to the forms prepared for them by commercial tax preparers could soon find their personal financial information being sold more widely to data brokers and marketers.
Supreme Court debated whether government employees have free-speech rights where a prosecutor was demoted after urging his supervisors to drop a case because he believed a sheriff's deputy lied in a search warrant affidavit.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in great shape after its arrival at the planet on March 10. Now being readied to produce its first images of Mars this week. University of Arizona's super-powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment camer
[http://finance.google.com/finance] The finance section Google Inc. continues a philosophical shift that's turning its once-pure Internet search engine into an all-purpose Web site interested in getting people to stick around instead of sending
A corporate-backed watchdog group that monitors software for deceptive and abusive practices named a widely used file-sharing program, Kazaa, and 3 other applications as violators of its guidelines.
Stressing that he hoped to help the league avoid what was a fractious process of a finding a replacement for his immediate predecessor, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said he will end his 16-year tenure at the end of July.
The headquarters supervisor of the FBI's international terrorism operations section testified he had never read an memo in which an agent proposed a full criminal investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui as a possible terrorist airplane hijacker.
A videotape taken by an Iraqi shows the aftermath of an alleged attack by US troops on civilians in their homes in a western town last November: a blood-smeared bedroom floor and bits of what appear to be human flesh and bullet holes on the walls.
In Iraq, the concrete goes on forever, vanishing into the noonday glare, 2 million cubic feet of it, a mile-long slab that's now the home of up to 120 US helicopters, a "heli-park" as good as any back in the States. At another giant bas
Prosecutors will try to persuade a Texas appeals court to reinstate some of the criminal charges against Rep. Tom DeLay, who is trying to win re-election to Congress while under indictment. Accused of funneling illegal corporate donations to Republic
Asked when U.S. forces would finally pull out of Iraq, Bush told a White House news conference: "That will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq."
A US Army dog handler was found guilty of abusing detainees by terrifying them with a military dog, allegedly for his own amusement, at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison and faces over 8 years in prison, an Army spokeswoman said.
How did the NeoCons manage to convert the tools for freedom into shackles now slowing strangling the liberties of all Americans? Follow the money for answers and for solutions look to the unsuspected wealth America has wrought.
Under the slogan "coca is not cocaine", politicians, consumers and growers across the Andes are promoting the leaf's qualities and calling for coca-based tea, yoghurt, bread, toothpaste, shampoo and soap to be mass produced and exported
Taiwan’s independence-minded government has started to remove statues of the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek from its military bases in an effort to rid its armed forces of a symbol of dictatorship and Chinese unification.
In a setback for the administration's efforts to win approval of a landmark nuclear pact with India, former senator Sam Nunn said that he has serious concerns the deal would harm the "US vital interest" in preventing nuclear proliferati
The criminal trial against "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, may still be a year away, but the special counsel prosecuting the case has already provided a preview into the government's criminal case aga
A must read to see the comments and political manuvering, all to get a national ID established. Leaders make it clear this law will pass no matter what is required to meet their goals. Now, why is a national ID so important to government?
A former federal employee says intelligence data was deliberately falsified over several years in order to justify the purchase of certain US military weapons systems. "Your job is to do what you're told. Your job is to support the Army'
Voter Action asserts that 2 of the most popular models of touch-screens, both of which are expected to come to Arizona, are unreliable and vulnerable to tampering. Also distrust because they do not produce a marked paper ballot.
Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has turned the U.S.-trained force into violent Shi'ite shock troops. Growing evidence that the massacres and others like it are being tolerated and even abetted by Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police forces, overs
2 of America's top scholars have published a searing attack on the role and power of Washington's pro-Israel lobby, warning that its "decisive" role in fomenting the Iraq war is now being repeated with the threat of action against I
The "Public Expression of Religion Act" introduced by Rep. James Hostettler would amend a portion of the US Code and disallow fees from attorneys who successfully represent individuals or groups litigating many First Amendment issues.
A suit will be filed in San Francisco's Superior State Court in response to Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's recent re-certification of Diebold Electronic Voting Machines in the state.VoterAction.org on behalf of several plaintiffs,
A year after Florida became the first state to allow citizens to use deadly force against muggers, carjackers and other attackers, the idea is spreading. South Dakota has enacted a similar law, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels plans to sign such a m
If the nation's real estate boom collapses, its first victims may well be low-income minorities and immigrants in a big US city like Boston. That is the picture emerging here as foreclosures rise and the housing prices falter. More than one-quart
Studies showing that money invested when kids are 3 or 4 years old helps them graduate or keeps them out of jail - is one reason states are starting to take a much harder look at funding education before they get to kindergarten.