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The High Price of American Gullibility Many Americans have turned a blind eye to the administration’s illegal and unconstitutional spying on...

Supreme Court Blocks Guantánamo Tribunals The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that it ex...

The Federal Reserve raised the benchmark federal funds ra te to 5.25 percent from 5.00 percent on Thursday, the central bank's 17th cons...

Complaint filed in 32 countries against U.S. bank data mining A civil liberties group on Wednesday asked 32 national governments to block th...

GOP bill targets NY Times House Republican leaders are expected to introduce a resolution today condemning The New York Times for publishing...

U.S. Mortgage applications dropped from 567.6 to 529.6 last week, hurt by the recent rise in mortgage rates. The U.S. Department of Energy...

U.S. Consumer confidence rose in the latest week as gasoline price hikes moderated, regaining its highest level since April, ABC News and th...

Many U.S. Iraq War vets return to homelessness The reasons that contribute to the new wave of homelessness are many: some are unable to cope...

Buyers in more markets find housing out of reach San Diego could be a poster child for the affordability crisis. Home prices here have risen...

Failure to deliver on G8 pledges has left millions to die, says charity report World leaders agreed to cut subsidies and open their markets ...

U.S. New home sales were up 4.6% from April's pace and more than expected. For 2006, new home sales are down 11% YoY. Australian Bureau...

Resist the tobacco Taliban There is within some people a deep-seated need to victimise those they consider racially, socially, sexually or i...

Jim Rogers Says China Equities, Commodities Will Boom Rogers said if he looks for new opportunities in commodities today, he would start wi...

Britain's first olive grove is a sign of our hotter times In one of the most remarkable signs yet of the advance of global warming, Brit...

Who Will Hold Them Accountable? Now the House has once again, in effect, abandoned its role in any future decision about the need for and th...

The U.S. Commerce Department said that durable goods were down 0.3% in May, weaker than expected. Mexico 's central bank left the count...

Bush is the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover The Wall Street Journal worried that Bush’s direction on steel was weakening ...

Heaven or hell? Nanotechnology, genetics and cybernetics will mean that we will become faster, stronger and more beautiful; we will live lon...

Tom Ridge: War on Terror to Last Decades Ridge, speaking at the opening of a new RAND Corp. office, said the war on terror is likely to las...

Lawmakers' Profits Are Scrutinized House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert ( R -Ill.) made a $2 million profit last year on the sale of land 5 1...

AT&T revises privacy policy, says owns customer data AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday it was revising its privacy policy, explaining to c...

EU way off course for meeting Kyoto targets: latest figures Instead of falling, EU greenhouse-gas pollution actually rose in the latest year...

The Conference Board, said its Index of Leading Economic Indicators fell to 137.9 (0.6%) in May after it declined 0.1 percent to 138.7 in Ap...

Retail sales in Canada were up 1.7% in April and 6.7 YoY, Canada 's composite index of leading indicators was up 0.3% in May. Japan e...

Iraq: US may be asked to leave In an exclusive interview with The Australian, former US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage has give...

'Thirst for knowledge' may be opium craving Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new co...

U.S. Consumer confidence edged up in the latest week because of moderating gasoline prices, ABC News and the Washington Post said. The U.S....

Brazil sees doubts about WTO farm deal in Jun e A key condition was that the United States came up with a "more courageous move" o...

Pentagon lists homosexuality as a mental disorder

Aaugh! Aaugh! The last time a nation’s civilian and military leadership was this incapable of learning from experience was under the Ching d...

Enigmatic object baffles supernova team The object's behaviour doesn't match any known quasar. The team is not convinced the object ...

Waste Oil Dumps Threaten Towns in Northern Iraq As much as 40 percent of the petroleum processed at Iraq's damaged and outdated refineri...

Japan seizes control of whaling group after historic vote In a stunning diplomatic coup, Japan and its allies, including Norway and Iceland,...

Late payments and new foreclosures on U.S. homes declined in the first quarter of 2006 compared with the last quarter of 2005, reflecting an...

The No-Knock State The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail – its roof may shake – th...

Lost in translation My recent comment piece explaining how Iran's president was badly misquoted when he allegedly called for Israel to b...

The U.S. current account deficit totaled $208.7 billion in the first quarter of 2006, smaller than expected. The University of Michigan...

5-4 Decision Narrows Exclusionary Rule in Police Searches As a result of Thursday’s opinion, it’s likely that police across the nation will ...

Judge Rules That U.S. Has Broad Powers to Detain Noncitizens Indefinitely "This decision is a green light to racial profiling and prolo...

Reducing Night Flights May Ease Winter Global Warming, Report Says We get one-half of the climate effect from one-quarter of the year, from ...

The U.S. Labor Department said that jobless claims were down 8,000 last week to 295,000, less than expected. Industrial production unexpect...

The Price of Madness How did an America of H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, James J. Hill, Henry David Thoreau, and Anne Hutchinson,...

Bell Labs To Be Demolished The vaunted Bell Labs, whose scientists invented the laser and developed fiber optic and satellite communications...

House Accepts $3,300 Raise Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase the...

Global Image of the U.S. Is Worsening Although strong majorities in several countries expressed worries about Iran's nuclear intentions...

The U.S. Labor Department said the CPI was up 0.4% in May and up 4.2% YoY. Excluding food and energy costs, the price index was up 0.3% in ...

The U.S. Department of Labor said the producer price index was up 0.2% in May and up 4.5% YoY. Excluding food and energy costs, prices were ...

(Bloomberg) -- China's retail sales rose 14.2 percent in May as higher incomes spurred consumer spending in the world's fastest-grow...

Rare counting ability induced by temporarily switching off brain region A minority of people with autism have one or more extraordinary inte...

A Dose Of Genius There are lots of the first-generation drugs around. Total sales have increased by more than 300 percent in only four years...