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Taliban insurgents attacked a military base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a U.S. and a Canadian soldier while 32 of the attackers were also killed, the U.S. military said. The Taliban have vowed to oust foreign forces and the Western-backed go
Did we intend to make a theatrical point—that we would not stand by in Abdul Rahman's condemnation and beheading, an arrant interference with the right of a human being to embrace Christianity? Or would we just settle for saving Rahman's life
Proposal that would require the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to conduct regular reviews of the four-year-old program. The existence of the warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency was revealed
Top al-Qaeda operatives in US custody said that Zacarias Moussaoui was untrustworthy and not part of the 9/11 attacks. Most of the testimony was read aloud from detainees who were forbidden from testifying because of national security concerns. Much
Only one in five Americans think cheating on taxes is morally acceptable or is not a moral issue, according to a new survey. Some 10 percent are equally ambivalent about cheating on a spouse.
Most scientists agree that core accretion is how terrestrial planets such as Earth and Mars were created, but the model can't convincingly explain how gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn came to be. One major problem is that developing gas
On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country. Compared to others, Derakhshan is lucky.
Took neural precursor cells from mouse brains and injected them into rats that could no longer walk after their spines were crushed. The cells migrated to the spinal cord, merged into the injured tissue and developed into cells that produced myelin,
UScommanders in Iraq accused powerful Shi‘ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage accusations that US-led troops massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque. "After the fact, someone went in and made the scene look
More evidence that the US government is justifying surveillance of political dissidence under the guise of monitoring "terrorism" has recently come to light. Early this March an FBI agent's presentation at the University of Texas law sc
The British government has failed to honor its pledge to compensate Afghani farmers for eradicating poppy crops, causing widespread anger in the volatile south of the country and leading to increased support for Taliban insurgents.
There is one doctoral dissertation that is so influential that General George Casey, the US commander in Iraq, is said to carry it with him everywhere. Most of his staff have been ordered to read it and he pressed a copy into the hands of Donald Rums
While only 2 Democrats in the Senate have embraced Sen. Russ Feingold's call for censuring President Bush, the idea is increasing his standing among many Democratic voters as he ponders a bid for the party's presidential nomination in 2008.
An unusual experiment in public access is giving anyone with a computer a chance to play intelligence analyst and second-guess the government. Under pressure from Congressional Republicans, the director of national intelligence has begun a yearlong p
To help recruit US government civilians for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, the State Department has boosted the pay allowances for both hardship and danger to the highest levels ever granted. An extra 70% above base salaries for hardship and danger.
A pair of senators just back from a trip to China said they hoped to talk with Treasury Secretary Snow before deciding whether to go ahead with a Friday vote on their bill threatening to punish China with a 27.5% trade tariff if it does not revalue
The Prime Minister did not always agree with the Americans and they could be “difficult friends”. The danger was not that the Americans were too involved in international affairs. The danger was that they might decide to disengage.
US House Republicans offered legislation aimed at easing the path for telephone carriers like AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications to enter the subscription television business. The companies have complained that it would take them years to obtain th
When are Americans going to wake up and “Stop being good Democrats.” and “Stop being good Republicans.” and “Start being good Americans”?
The authoritarian Right launched, instead, a full frontal attack on the film and its values. This film opposes their agenda so clearly and forcefully that they have no alternative but to hate it. Yet they lack the ability to undermine the film withou
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is promoting a system that would have farm-animal owners and livestock handlers attach microchips or other ID tags to their furry and feathered charges so they could be monitored throughout their lifetimes by a cent
Air America Radio has found a new home in the Valley. The liberal-talk network will debut Monday on KPHX-AM (1480). Nova M Radio, a company headed by Valley radio personality Mike Newcomb and Air America founders Sheldon and Anita Drobny, will lease
The former Republican leader of the Wisconsin Assembly was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail for putting a party fundraiser on the state payroll.
A senior Iraqi politician from a rival Shi'ite party to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said that President Bush had made clear he did not want Jaafari to lead a new government of national unity.
Taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service is at risk of being tampered with or obliterated because of weaknesses in the agency's information security systems, according to the Government Accountability Office.
4 years after the 9/11 attacks, investigators were able to easily enter the US with enough radioactive material to make two so-called dirty bombs, according to a report on a government undercover investigation obtained.
"I remember when we were in office, starting in 1998, various Republicans were coming to us wanting a ground invasion," Madeleine Albright said. She did not name the people she said made those requests nor say what prompted them.
President Bush announced the resignation of White House chief of staff Andy Card on Wednesday and replaced him with budget director Joshua Bolten, saying "the next three years will demand much of those who serve our country."
General Motors Corp. is expected to start cutting thousands of US salaried workers as part of a sweeping restructuring aimed at stemming losses and market share, a source close to the situation said. Cuts will be in the engineering division, the sour
Bush's senior adviser Karl Rove tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent "discovery" of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
