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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that U.S. government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go.
It is being reported that U.S. law enforcement agencies are among the customers of a Massachusetts-based company that is selling full-body scanners to be mounted inside vans and used on American streets.
The Palestinian Authority has told the U.S. administration that an Israeli commitment to continuing the freeze on settlement construction must include East Jerusalem.
Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to produce one to two nuclear weapons, but it would not be logical for it to cross the bomb-making threshold, said former UN chief of nuclear inspections Olli Heinonen in an interview with Le Monde on Thursday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Iran on Wednesday that failure to reach a credible agreement over its nuclear program would force world powers to mobilize to protect threatened states in the region.
More than 40 people have been killed in a string of bombings that have rocked Iraq. In Baghdad alone, over 20 bombs exploded in at least 12 separate incidents.
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has instructed the government to start building the country's first nuclear power plant at a site on the Mediterranean coast, ending a year of controversy.
The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials.
Russia's newest strategic nuclear-powered submarine, the Borey-class Yury Dolgoruky, started a series of sea trials in the White Sea, the Sevmash shipyard said on Thursday.
NORAD is downplaying an incident on Tuesday that saw two CF-18s shadow a pair of Russian military aircraft as they flew within 56 kilometres of Canadian soil.
Central bankers from around the world will assess a darkening economic outlook at their annual U.S. mountain retreat this week with discussion of printing yet more money to spur growth on the agenda.
New homes sales in the United States dropped to the lowest level ever recorded in July.
Governments throughout Europe are still absolutely drowning in debt.
Morgan Stanley analysts warned Wednesday that developed countries may not default on their debts, but government bond investors could be left with losses in other ways.
The U.S. Treasury has announced that China’s official holdings of U.S. Treasury securities declined by about $30 billion between April and May of this year.
An advocacy group is calling for the ouster of former Sen. Alan Simpson, the co-chairman of President Obama's bipartisan debt commission, who described Social Security as a "milk cow with 310 million tits!" in an email.
A number of top economists are declaring that "the second Great Depression" has arrived.
Economic uncertainties, together with China’s push to get its citizens to buy more gold, should keep demand for the precious metal strong through the year, according to the World Gold Council.
If you are wondering why small businesses are having such a hard time right now, just check out this article: "This is why there are no jobs in America".
The former chairman of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager for George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential bid has announced that he is gay.
A wounded Ecuadoran migrant stumbled into a checkpoint and led Mexican marines to a gruesome scene, what may be the biggest massacre so far in the nation’s bloody drug war: a room piled with the bodies of 72 migrants, 100 miles from their goal, the U.S. border.
A new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central- equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA.
Pakistan's government has warned about 500,000 people in the country's southeastern Sindh province that they should evacuate immediately because of possible flooding.
The devastation caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just continues to get worse and worse.
Some people are calling it the BP Flu. But it is commonly being called the Blue Flu, because the alleged symptoms include blue lips and skin; and it’s scaring the hell out of people all around the Gulf area –from Texas to Florida.
Concerned mothers of daughters who have been seriously injured or killed by Gardasil have put together a website at http://truthaboutgardasil.org that tells the true story about this toxic vaccine.
Following the recall of more than half a billion commercially-produced eggs potentially tainted with salmonella, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now petitioning the U.S. Congress for more power and authority over food.
Google says that 1 million "Gmail calls" were made on the first day that the service was available.
The mayor of Philadelphia is defending a decision to require bloggers to pay $300 for a business license.
Web activists are increasingly fearing the development of a two-tier Internet, where corporations have priority and dissenting voices get pushed to the margins.
The U.S. Senate is attempting to sneak through the infamous Internet kill switch cybersecurity bill by attaching it to another piece of legislation that is almost guaranteed to pass – the defense authorization bill – in an underhanded ploy to avoid the difficult task of passing cybersecurity on its own.
There is a new edition of Medal of Honor coming out that lets you play the Taliban in Afghanistan fighting American and allied forces.
Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine created in Yahoo's Barcelona research lab, generates timelines that stretch into the future as well as the past.
The ability to evaluate other people's actions as right or wrong can be disrupted with an electromagnetic pulse to the brain, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
NASA has announced the discovery of two planets, slightly smaller than Saturn, orbiting the same star in the Milky Way.
Southern Colombian authorities have started the evacuation of more than 8,000 people living near the Galeras volcano, which erupted on Wednesday.
The extreme heatwave, which caused a severe drought and wildfires in Russia, might be over, but both officials and consumers are now busy calculating its cost and trying to work out its consequences.
The "bed bug plague" has now spread to most of America's major cities.
It is being reported that the Obama administration, this year, will spend almost $6 million to restore 63 cultural and historic sites that include mosques and minarets, in 55 countries, as revealed by State Department documents.
Atheist or agnostic doctors are almost twice as willing to make decisions that they think will hasten the end of a very sick patient's life as doctors who are deeply religious, suggests research published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
More than 100 religious organizations are urging members of Congress to reject pending legislation that would prohibit them from considering religion when hiring.
Lastly, a Saudi couple recently tortured their Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 hot nails into her after she complained of her heavy workload.
