Poll: More Americans believe humans evolved without God
52% of GOP reject evolution; 36% reject creationism More Americans today believe that human beings developed without any involvement of a higher power, according to a...
Food safety bill heads to House after constitutional snafu fixed
The Senate has passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. This is the second...
Congress should divest from defense stocks, Bush appointee says
Members of Congress ought to divest from companies that hold military contracts with the US government, a former Senate appointee that served in the Bush administration,...
South Korea stages live-fire artillery drill, despite North's threats
YEONPYEONG, South Korea (Reuters) – South Korea held live firing drills in a disputed area on Monday despite threats of war from Pyongyang after an emergency...
US 'non-emergency' embassy staff must leave Ivory Coast, State Department orders
WASHINGTON – The United States on Sunday ordered non-emergency staff to leave Ivory Coast and warned Americans not to travel to the West African country, which...
Moore and me continues
I was going to be lazy and not post anything today, but I was so moved by Sady's post about the way she's been stressing herself...
Supreme Court becoming a tool for corporate interests: study
Court now sides with Chamber of Commerce two-thirds of the time Those who have been arguing that the Supreme Court is growing more friendly to corporate...
Gay US soldiers must still hold fire on sexuality
WASHINGTON — US lawmakers have voted to allow gays to serve openly in the military for the first time, but troops must wait months before they...
WikiLeaks lawyers: Sweden 'smeared' Assange with police files release
In what may be an ironic turn of events, lawyers for Julian Assange are up in arms about a leak of sensitive information. The WikiLeaks founder's...
Biden promises 2014 Afghanistan withdrawal 'come hell or high water'
Biden compares Assange to a 'high-tech terrorist' Vice President Joe Biden pledged Sunday that all US troops would be out of Afghanistan by 2014, "come hell...
2010 census bad news for Obama?
The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President...
UK plans to block all porn in effort to 'protect children'
Fears over Internet freedom as UK plans to expand web censorship As Britain finds itself in the middle of the political maelstrom surrounding WikiLeaks' Julian Assange,...
UPDATE: Senate rejects GOP's second START rewrite
UPDATE: The Republican effort to rewrite the START treaty with Russia failed. Senators by a vote of 60-32 rejected an amendment adding language on short-range nuclear...
LGBT community celebrates 'don't ask' milestone
Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military is a step toward equality, advocates say, but a fight for other social changes such...
Booze, drugs and hookers: Hundreds of offenses by Afghan contractors uncovered
At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International security guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's protective detail returned to their compound...