The Department of Homeland Security recently issued a chilling report: Americans, it said, can expect an upsurge in "rightwing extremism" from White nationalists, militias, and groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan, of course, has had a hand in some of the nation\'s most infamous acts of racial terror and murder.
Afghan villagers had complained to the U.S. Marines for days: The police are the problem, not the Taliban. They steal from villagers and beat them. Days later, the Marines learned firsthand what the villagers meant.
A double-decker sports plane has crashed into a car after plunging from the air. The pilot was performing aerial acrobatic manoeuvres and struck the family car, which was parked on a road near the airfield.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67. The \"doolies,\" members of the incoming freshman class, are among about 1,300 cadets who arrived recently for their first weeks of military training.
A former U.S. intelligence agent said in a report published Monday that terror suspect Abu Zubaydah was subjected to simulated drowning months before the Bush administration’s Department of Justice had written memos approving the use of waterboarding. The claim deals a major blow to the Bush administration\'s defenses of torture
The program was designed after the Sept. 11 attacks, but the plans were never carried out before Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled it last month.
A group of doctors in the UK are mounting a legal and political campaign to overturn the suicide verdict in the death of a British doctor who was found dead shortly after exposing falsehoods about the justification for the Iraq war.
The news that Metropolitan police officers patrolling the nation\'s capital may soon carry GPS tracking equipment has been overshadowed by shock revelations that uniform-mounted video cams have \"caught fire\" in use.
The U.S. military in Iraq says two soldiers have been charged with filming and photographing female members of their unit while they were taking showers and then distributing the video and images.
A high profile Sudanese woman journalist is facing 40 lashes after being accused of wearing \'indecent\' clothes, with 10 women already whipped for similar offences against Islamic law.
Second Amendment zealots are not letting the bad economy stop them from buying guns. According to a news article published on Saturday by The Telegraph/UK, gun shops across the U.S. are having a heyday selling rifles and pistols ...
Prosecutors in Germany have formally charged alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder in World War II. There was no immediate word on when the trial of the 89-year-old retired car worker, who was deported from the United States in May, might begin.
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - With U.S. unemployment at a 20-year high, some Americans are working for free while looking for a job, but experts are split over whether it is a sign of dedication or desperation. Unpaid job seekers can...
North Korea\'s reclusive leader Kim Jong Il has pancreatic cancer, it has been reported. Seoul\'s news channel network YTN television said Kim, 67, was diagnosed with the cancer around the time he was felled by a stroke last summer.
President Barack Obama has ordered his national security team to investigate reports that U.S. allies were responsible for the deaths of as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war during the opening days of the war in Afghanistan.
Bill Moyers exposes for the first time the health insurance industry\'s secret campaign against Michael Moore and his film, \"Sicko.\" It contains a stunning revelation and admission by a top health insurance executive. Video at the link...