August 19, 2009, 10:41 am — Updated: 11:12 am –> Iran’s Opposition Claims ‘Evidence’ of Rapes By Robert Mackey On Wednesday in Tehran, the reformist

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In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress rightly required new background checks for the nation’s 1.5 million port workers. Unfortunately, the checks, which

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Military officials have prohibited Raúl Isaías Baduel, a retired general and a former confidant of President Hugo Chávez who is now one

… When there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she (Palin) appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Six years after being driven from power, the Taliban are demonstrating a resilience and a ferocity that are raising alarm here, in

I am reliably told by a Bush administration official that there is an old saying in Texas that goes like this: “If all you ever

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Bradley Harrison was driving a rented Dodge Durango from Vancouver to Toronto in the fall of 2004 with 77 pounds of cocaine in the trunk

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AT the All-Star Game tonight at Yankee Stadium, fans will, as they tend to do at baseball games, eat hot dogs. These hot dogs will

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After watching wholesale lots of the Bush administration’s most important e-mails go mysteriously missing, Congress is trying to legislate against any further damage to history.

Publicly, senior American and Pakistani officials have said that the creation of a Qaeda haven in the tribal areas was in many ways  inevitable. But

WASHINGTON — A long-delayed Senate committee report endorsed by Democrats and some Republicans concluded that President Bush and his aides built the public case for

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