Summaries of 7 documents from Saddam Hussein's government, which the US government has released. The documents discuss Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and more.
When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.
The lights have been out for six months now, and no one seems to know when, if ever, they will be turned back on. In greater New Orleans about 125,000 homes remain damaged and unoccupied, a vast ghost city that rots in darkness while les bon temps re
Universal Pictures, the movie studio behind "King Kong,'' said it will offer the ape saga and other films on a "download-to-own'' basis for the first time next month as Internet movie delivery switches to ownership from rent
The EU and US are to impose sanctions against Belarus over an election that gave President Lukashenko a landslide victory and 3rd term. The opposition says 500 people were detained after riot police broke up a 5-day long protest against the poll.
Consider what it means to live in an unacknowledged state of military Keynesianism, garrisoning the planet, and with an imperial budget - a real yearly Pentagon budget - of perhaps three-quarters of a trillion dollars.
The FEC rules would leave almost all Internet political activity unregulated. The proposal would, however, require paid advertisements for federal candidates on the Internet to be paid for with money regulated by federal campaign law.
For isolated towns with crumbling streets, speeding tickets can be an important source of revenue. In Eolia, for example, a ticket for 1 mph over the limit costs $67.50 in fines and court costs. Missouri law lets cities keep all the revenue they coll
In the most audacious public challenge to the man who has just been re-elected after running Belarus with an iron rod for 12 years, his challenger told a rally: "I declare the creation of a Popular Movement for the Liberation of Belarus."
A prototype engine that could ultimately lead to two-hour jet flights from Australia to Britain was launched in the South Australian outback, researchers said.
The senior Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee sought assurances over a no-bid contract the Bush administration is finalizing with a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas to the
FEMA has broken its promise to reopen four multimillion-dollar no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina work, including three that federal auditors say wasted significant amounts of money.
A judge has approved subpoenas for former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and an ex-business partner to answer questions about the mob-style slaying of the owner of a gambling fleet they bought.
A hominid skull discovered in Ethiopia could fill the gap in the search for the origins of the human race. The cranium, is 200,000 to 500,000 years old, and appears "to be intermediate between the earlier Homo erectus and the later Homo sapiens,
Proponents of a guest worker program to address the chaos of illegal immigration have a hard sell in front of them. Similar programs in the past have been plagued by abuses and have done little to stem the influx of undocumented workers.
Thousands of Belarusians defied a massive show of force by the hard-line government, protesting in streets swarming with riot police and gathering peacefully in a park to denounce President Lukashenko after a disputed election returned him to power.
Ah, yes -- it's not the gods after all. It's just the old guys -- Uncle George, Uncle Dick, Uncle Don. The "noise" in the woods is the work of the old guys playing gods, wanting you to live in fear and trembling so that you will loo
The Falcon 1 rocket began its journey to orbit, but regrettably failed about one minute into launch during the first stage burn. Details are unknown. Designed from the ground up by SpaceX, Falcon 1 is a two stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and p
Kadima revealed some details of its vision of a divided Jerusalem yesterday, saying a future Palestinian state would include the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, but not the Old City.
The federal judge presiding over the prosecution of 2 former lobbyists has focused attention on the imprecise nature of the law they are charged with breaking, the 1917 Espionage Act that restricts the dissemination of national defense information th
Researchers studying the meteorite that originated from Mars found a series of microscopic tunnels within the object that mimic the size, shape and distribution to tracks left on Earth rocks by the feeding frenzy of bacteria.
Navy construction crews have unearthed a rare Spanish ship that was buried for centuries under sand on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, archaeologist confirmed. The vessel could date to the mid-1500s, when the first Spanish settlement in what is no
Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said. Brave agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication.
The Vatican has begun moves to rehabilitate the Crusaders by sponsoring a conference at the weekend that portrays the Crusades as wars fought with the "noble aim" of regaining the Holy Land for Christianity. [Molten lead gargle aside.]
A Conservative Republican former Texas Supreme Court Justice, who ran against a Republican opponent backed by Gov. Rick Perry, is considering a challenge to the tremendously flawed Primary Elections held on new Electronic Voting Machines.
Faced with hundreds of claims by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, a federal appeals court pressed the Bush administration to say how much power judges will have to determine the legality of the detentions.
The remnants of jailbird Randy “Duke” Cunningham's lavish lifestyle now occupy the back wall of a giant warehouse here, sharing space with dozens of other items appropriated by the federal government. Along with the former congressman's Orien
An Iraqi cameraman working for CBS News when he was wounded and detained by the U.S. military will be tried next month, CBS officials said Wednesday. Freedom's Phoenix has learned the charge will be 'willful doing of one's job.'
Talk of making it illegal for lobbyists to pick up a lawmaker's tab has the local restaurant community all whipped up. So, in classic Washington style, restaurateurs have dispatched their lobbyists to lobby against efforts to control lobbying.
Former FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds filed a motion asking for the recusal of the judge assigned to her case because of his alleged "bias to secrecy." [Why do you think the government's black robe assigned himself the case?]