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The Friday-evening crowd in the Minneapolis suburb of Lakeville was fired up for Sen. John McCain's arrival for a town hall meeting in a hot high school gymnasium.
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Hundreds of "insurgents" have been executed since 2003, victims of the same summary justice they mete out to their own captives.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the "truthfulness and judgment" needed to be president. But the Alaska governor...
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I traveled to Iceland this summer to explore that nation’s unique use of alternative energy sources.
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If you follow peak oil — and if you don’t, you will be bitchslapped by reality — then you know of Matt Simmons. I was introduced to him several years ago by my former boss at the Energy Department....
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Tell a kid to do some work, like clean their room or take out the garbage, and they roll their eyes and run in the other direction. If you’re living in a rural village in Africa, Mom might ask you to...
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Senators are praising Attorney General Michael Mukasey's appointment of a special counsel to investigate the firings of nine U.S. prosecutors, and they're warning President Bush against...
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An aid helicopter for the U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur was shot down outside a refugee camp on Monday, killing all four crew members and scattering debris over a half-mile, Sudanese police and...
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Israel's prime minister, who has a few weeks left in office, says that to achieve lasting peace, the nation has to cede most of the West Bank and half of Jerusalem to Palestinians.
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U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) today issued the following statement on the proposal for a federal bailout of the financial industry. He said Congress should not approve the bailout without...
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We need to look at what the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act has done to our economy and fix it, so that we have the ability to deal with climate crisis.
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