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A U.S. lawmaker fumed that the Bush administration refused to divulge anything about a security review it is conducting of a Dubai-owned company that is planning to take over several plants in the U.S. that make equipment for defense contractors.
A year after John Negroponte became director of national intelligence, lawmakers worry the spy agency is not fulfilling its mission. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is "not adding any value" by enlarging the bureaucracy,
A Texas jury has awarded $27.5 million to a woman who says Southwest Airlines flight attendants had her arrested in 2003 because they were overly aggressive in enforcing post-9/11 security. The case against Samantha Carrington, a US citizen born in
4-million-year-old remains in Ethiopia have provided the first hard proof of a link between two key stages of human evolution by bridging the gap between pre-human species, paleontologists said. "... fossils that allow us to connect the 1st phas
Did you buy anything through the Internet last year without paying sales tax at the time? If you did, state tax collectors warn that you'd better say so by April 17 and write a check--or else.
The steps the US empire follows preparing the public for the wars it plans to wage.
The US trade deficit narrowed 4.1% in February to $65.7 billion, as imports fell by the largest amount in nearly a year and the bilateral trade gap with China shrank 22.7%, the US Commerce Department said.
The European single currency firmed to 1.2155 dollars from 1.2144 dollars late on Tuesday in New York. The dollar dipped to 118.19 yen, from 118.21 on Tuesday." The narrowing trade deficit is not expected to give much sustained support for the d
A detailed account of Israeli oppression against the Palestinian people
The jury deciding whether Zacarias Moussaoui should die heard the dramatic cockpit recording on Wednesday of passengers struggling to thwart hijackers in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. [And this is still secret from pub
Iran intends to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment involving 54,000 centrifuges, the country's deputy nuclear chief said, signaling its resolve to expand a program the international community has insisted it halt. "We will expand ura
The White House angrily denied a newspaper report that President Bush in 2003 declared the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing it was not true. For a year after that, the Bush administration continued to assert that the
The threat to the planet from the US use of depleted uranium munitions in four wars since 1991.
Following huge nationwide protests, House Republicans moved to possibly change 2 key provisions in a get-tough immigration bill passed. One would turn millions of illegal immigrants into felons and the people who provide them humanitarian relief woul
The Australian media heaped scorn on the performances of 2 senior ministers at an official inquiry into a scandal over huge bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's Iraq by the nation's monopoly wheat exporter. "I don't know" and "I
Judge Bayliss said: "I am not going to allow the defendant to explain what he thinks the law is." Kendall-Smith replied: "If I am unable to speak, how can I present my position to the court?" Judge Bayliss: "I will not allow
Dalack, an appellate lawyer who recently won a seat on the Tequesta Village Council, is refusing to take the oath of office because it requires him to "support, protect and defend" the federal and state governments. To him, that's the e
Attorneys for AT&T have asked a federal judge to order a San Francisco civil liberties group to return "highly confidential'' documents that show the telecommunications giant provided detailed records of millions of its customers to a go
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory in Iraq: 2 small trailers captured had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, "We have found the weapons
Almost all of the state's poorest residents will have to show proof of US citizenship to continue getting medical care by July 1, under a little-noticed federal law that could endanger coverage for many, as Massachusetts is trying to expand acces
The Internal Revenue Service won approval from a federal court to ask PayPal to turn over information about people who might be evading taxes by hiding income in other countries, officials said.
We've been jawing for weeks about the plans that Big Telecom have for discriminating between what's flowing through their pipes into our houses. A very dangerous bill working through the House took a big step toward being enacted into law, an
Full-page ads in influential US newspapers entitled "A Nuclear Iran Threatens All" depicting radiating circles on an Iran-centered map to show where its missiles could strike. "Suppose Iran one day gives nuclear devices to terrorists?
Italian elections have stripped President Bush of another Iraq war ally in Silvio Berlusconi, with staunch US partner Tony Blair barely holding on in Britain. Pro-war supporters had already departed in Spain and Portugal, but Berlusconi's apparen
2 senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized. Marine Lieut. General Greg Newbold, the Pentagon*
Before igniting the flag, group members recited the Pledge of Allegiance. (How many people does this guy represent?)
The Social Security Administration's disability program loses billions of dollars through overpayments and payments to ineligible beneficiaries. The report estimated overpayments of $5.1 billion identified between October 2003 and November 2005.
A retired Marine Corps general has struck a nerve here by criticizing the US military brass for remaining silent while the Bush administration's marched the country into an "invented war" in Iraq.
The vice president, whose popularity is slumping along with that of President Bush, walked out on the field to cheering and booing from the near-sellout crowd. The boos appeared to be little louder than the cheers at RFK Memorial Stadium.
At the heart of any immigration bill that makes it through the heated congressional debates is likely to be a computerized system that could help employers determine instantly whether someone can legally work in this country.
