Surging fuel prices are forcing cities across the United States to cut back on services and dip into cash reserves to keep their fleets on the road. The average retail price of diesel used in city buses and garbage trucks has shot up 65 percent over
Committee Chairman John Conyers of Michigan requested that Scott McClellan, Bush's spokesman from 2003-06, appear to give sworn testimony about the account in his book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture
Small pieces of a bright material "have vanished from inside a trench where they were photographed by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander four days ago, convincing scientists that the material was frozen water that vaporized after digging exposed it,
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will break his pledge and opt out of the public financing system for the general election against Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., allowing him to raise millions for the White House race.
Russia had asked both the United States and Israel to provide factual information to back their claims that Iran was working to build atomic weapons. "So far we have seen none, and the same conclusion was made by the International Atomic Energy
If you read this and don’t agree that the proposed arrests for fraud should be made, then the likely explanation is that you are either brainwashed, ignorant of the facts, a patsy, or in cahoots with the crooks. Or maybe you have the brain of a head
Judge Smith tells the press that courthouses are not exempt from state concealed weapon laws, so there's no way to lawfully stop people from carrying a concealed weapon if they're licensed properly.
As part of its action, the EU approved a set of conditions on Cuba in return for sanction-free relations. They include the release of all political prisoners; access for Cubans to the Internet; and a double-track approach for all EU delegations arriv
The police clarification came after The Sun reported a UFO had "attacked" a police helicopter, following it for several miles over the Bristol Channel. "The pilot banked sharply to avoid being hit, then launched into a high-speed pursu
Despite Irish voters overwhelming rejection of the E.U.-backed Treaty of Lisbon, European Union leaders have given Ireland's Prime Minister four months to draw up a plan to save it.
Insisting that it does not want to deny Iran nuclear power, the US has said it is always ready to hold talks with Tehran provided it suspended its uranium enrichment activities, even for a limited period.
Worse, the government was proud of what it had done. It was parading its impunity. It wanted us to know that nothing would stand in its way: its power was both sovereign and unaccountable.
If and when Bush starts World War III, remember that he couldn't have done it without the invaluable complicity of his Democratic enablers, especially those in Congress.
"a final deal has been reached" on FISA and telecom amnesty and "the House is likely to take up the legislation Friday." I've now just read a copy of the final "compromise" bill. It's even worse than expected. It
Representative Ron Paul says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed a section from a bill passed by Congress which would have barred the USfrom going to war with Iran without a congressional vote, claiming she did so at the behest of AIPAC.
A US House of Representatives Resolution effectively requiring a naval blockade on Iran seems fast tracked for passage, gaining co-sponsors at a remarkable speed, but experts say the measures called for in the resolutions amount to an act of war.
A much-delayed Iraq war funding bill sailed through the House, along with a doubling of college aid for returning troops and help for the unemployed and Midwestern flood victims. Republican allies of President Bush provided the winning margin in a 26
Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission's principal investigator.
Crumbs of bright material initially photographed in the trench later
While this system became a huge and vital source of money to fuel the U.S. economy, the subprime mortgage crisis and ensuing credit crunch exposed a major flaw.
Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses.
Police who apprehended Iowan at checkpoint with guns drawn "acted appropriately," man charged with assault with a deadly weapon, faces 5 years behind bars.
[Walter making trouble again!] What changed my mind? Why am I now just as much of an obdurate atheist as I have ever been, yet, also, a friend and supporter of religion? For most, it will appear as nothing less than a logical contradiction for an ath
The US military cannot locate hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, according to several government officials familiar with a Pentagon report on nuclear safeguards.
By Joseph Abrams - Critics are calling for the resignation of a U.N. official who publicly supports investigating theories that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an "inside job."
Agents began radiation screening of private planes at the start of the year amid concerns that terrorists could try to "bypass the traditional ports of entry," such as airports and border crossings where security systems are in place.
[Anecdotal but tantalizing.] A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells. The 52-year-old, was suffering from advanced melanoma, was free from tumors within 8 weeks of undergoing the procedure.
[Why 1 in 100 people are in prison in the land of the free....] Orange County prosecutors have arrested and charged the 18-year-old student with breaking into his prestigious high school and hacking into computers to change his test grades from Fs to