Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, violated federal guidelines when it blocked and degraded Web traffic, the head of the Federal Communications Commission will announce Friday." The sanctions would be the first time the commission has come down on an internet...
"Lawmakers pledged Sunday to study the movements of planes and ships traveling to the remote British outpost Diego Garcia amid persistent suspicion it is used by U.S. authorities to detain or transfer terrorism...
"If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong." Thats Torture 101."A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late...
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"Released from Guantánamo on 24 August 2006, German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz had been held for four years and eight months without charge or trial, despite little evidence to link him to "terrorist" activities. Both US and German intelligence services secretly...
What's the auto-racing industry without a lurid sex scandal, rocking it to its very core? Nothing, according to the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, who voted to keep their sex-orgy-loving boss.Max Mosley, overseer of the Grand Prix motor racing, survived a...
Some 300 protesting lorry drivers rallied at Marble Arch in London. Vehicles displayed placards and and honked horns - a call to lower the duty on fuel for hauliers by 20-25%. In Wales, hauliers rallied in support of...
" A congressman from New York has admitted to fathering a child in an extramarital affair three years ago.Under mounting scrutiny, Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella, who has...
"The human rights issue has become the centerfold of media disinformation.China is no model of human rights but neither are the US and its indefectible British ally, responsible for extensive war crimes and human...
US presidential contender John McCain is in London this morning meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Obviously, Iraq was high on the agenda."US presidential hopeful John McCain has held Downing Street talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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The incredibly messy issue of the Florida and Michigan Democratic primaries continues to be fought over, with detailed plans now being put forth by Florida Democrats."Florida Democrats, searching for a way out of...
Ron Paul is getting out of the race."In a message posted on YouTube on Thursday, Representative Ron Paul acknowledged that he would not be able to win the Republican presidential nomination.
“Though victory in the conventional political sense is not available in the...
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WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite repeated U.S. assurances that none...
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NEW ORLEANS - Democrat Barack Obama suggested Thursday that Hillary Rodham Clinton follow his lead and release her and her husband's income tax returns so the public can see where the $5 million she loaned her presidential campaign came from. ...
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"Afghan Prison Looks Like Another Guantanamo
By William Fisher
A sketch by Thomas V. Curtis, a former Reserve M.P. sergeant, showing how a 22-year-old Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar was allegedly chained to the ceiling of his cell. He later died in custody.
NEW YORK, Jan...
Beacon, the feature on Facebook which promised online retailers access to the feeds of all Facebook users has been altered to allow Facebookers to turn the feature off completely. Mark Zuckerberg is contrite...