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The Federal Reserve Bank is drawing jeers for hiring a former top executive from the now-defunct investment bank Bear Stearns to help it gauge the health of other banks.
US warned of uprising if armed incursions continue as new counter-terror policy backfires
The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.
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A new opinion poll shows that few in the Middle East think the "surge" is working, that many believe Iraq would be better off without a U.S. military presence, and that sympathy for al Qaeda is growing.
To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault and not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in Missouri's bootheel.
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The threat from an adversary's use of space is more than just zapping a satellite out of sky. It could be as mundane as grabbing an up-to-date reconnaissance image from a free Web site.
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- The threat from an adversary's use of space is more than just zapping a satellite out of sky. It could be as mundane as grabbing an up-to-date reconnaissance image from a free Web site. - Randy Benson on 2008-03-17
BERLIN - A U.S. Soldier was fatally shot in a confrontation with German police after taking his ex-girlfriend hostage in the southern town of Koenigsberg, police said March 14.
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- A U.S. Soldier was fatally shot in a confrontation with German police after taking his ex-girlfriend hostage in the southern town of Koenigsberg, police said March 14. - Randy Benson on 2008-03-17
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A series of embarrassing incidents on federal property across the country, including the theft of a trailer of surveillance equipment from an FBI parking deck, is being blamed on budget cuts at the agency charged with securing federal
NSA's Domestic Spying Grows
As Agency Sweeps Up Data
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- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on Americans' privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. - Randy Benson on 2008-03-13
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- CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan - A 19-year-old Army medic from Texas is set to become the first woman in Afghanistan -- and only the second female Soldier since World War II -- to receive the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor. - Randy Benson on 2008-03-13
A UN official says that women are still discriminated against in almost every country.
- If the U.S. leaves Iraq, the violent sectarianism between the Sunni and Shia will worsen. This is what Republicans and Democrats alike will have us believe. This key piece of rhetoric is used to justify the continuance of the occupation of Iraq. This propaganda, like others of its ilk, gains ground, substance, and reality due largely to the ignorance of those ingesting it. - Randy Benson on 2008-03-10
How far off were they? Well, it depends on which figure you choose to start with. Here's the range: According to key officials in the Bush administration back in 2002-2003, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq was either going to cost $60 billion, or $
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and European Union are undermining human rights worldwide by letting states with dubious elections like Pakistan and Kenya pose as real democracies, Human Rights Watch said on...
By Anthony Boadle HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday that he will not return to lead the country as president or commander-in-chief, retiring as head of state 49 years after he seized power in an armed...
As Western leaders and Congress debate NATO's responsibilities in Afghanistan, it's time to dissolve two great American illusions about Afghanistan.
The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines.
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