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Aides to General Stanley McChrystal yesterday condemned the intervention of US ambassador and former military man Karl Eikenberry in the debate on troop reinforcements as nothing short of a military betrayal. “He ambushed us” and “he...
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When the newly elected New York City Council convenes in January, for the first time in its history white council members will be in the minority, as whites are in the city.
Also for the first time, an Asian American will serve in an elected citywide...
For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once hunted to near extinction — appear to be thriving world-wide.
From fewer than...
One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his nine wives
A U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the “Spam King.”
“Lions hate circuses” has long been a bumper-sticker slogan of the animal-rights movement, and Bolivia has heard the message: the left-leaning government of the Andean country recently passed the world’s first legislation prohibiting...
A judge and five members of the same family were killed in the Iranian capital during a dispute, local media quoted judicial sources as saying.
The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.
The group, which includes two former U.S....
Barack Obama promised to allow gay servicemen and women to serve openly in the US military but left the gay community frustrated again yesterday after he refused to set a timetable for repealing the controversial “Don’t ask, don’t...
Signs of progress have emerged from two days of talks and Honduras’ rival factions plan to resume after a weekend break trying to resolve the bitter divide over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.
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