September 18, 2012

The Iranian nuclear chief has said that the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is infiltrated with terrorists and saboteurs who are trying to derail his country’s nuclear program.

Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, who was speaking at the annual member state gathering of the IAEA in Vienna on Monday, also…

September 17, 2012

The recent outbreak of violent anti-American protests in the Muslim world will make US politicians think twice before supporting Islamic radicals, political analyst and ex-jihadist Tawfik Hamid said in an interview with RT.

The US has funded Islamists groups throughout the world for decades, and the death of the American ambassador…

September 17, 2012

While many millionaires got poorer in the last year, billionaires did just fine, overcoming market and economic turmoil.

The number of people with at least $30 million in their pockets grew to 187,380, while their total wealth fell 1.8 percent to $25.8 trillion – a sum bigger than the combined size of the U.S. and Chinese…

September 16, 2012

The arrival of the original iPhone in 2007 was a quantum leap for cellphones. Phones had never worked or looked like…

September 17, 2012

Hundreds of police barricaded the New York Stock Exchange as Occupy Wall Street protesters swarmed the Financial District for the movement’s one-year anniversary. Some 100 demonstrators were reportedly arrested.

Witnesses reported on Twitter that demonstrators are being arrested for "blocking pedestrian traffic." A woman…

November 10, 2012

9/16/2012 

WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) doesn't have a doubt in her mind that President Barack Obama will be reelected in November. And she claims she's not alone.

"Oh, Mitt Romney's not going to be president of the United States," Pelosi said with a laugh, during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union." "I think…

September 16, 2012

The White House budget office announced Friday that 2013's automatic spending cuts will slash $109 billion from federal spending – including $129 million annually that goes to embassy protection.

Unless Congress implements a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the next ten years, automatic spending cuts will slash…

Findings from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have found that CT (computed tomography) scans are a major cause of the breast cancer they are supposed to detect, and women should avoid all ‘just-in-case’ and routine screening, a US government report has concluded.

Women should refuse to have any routine CT screening, say researchers from the University of California, at…

September 15, 2012

The US has deployed military teams to respond to unrest in 17 or 18 locations in Muslim nations that are of strategic interest to Pentagon.

"We have to be prepared in the event that these demonstrations get out of control," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a Friday interview with Foreign Policy.

Panetta did…

Sept 15 2012

          State Department describes reports they had credible intelligence waring of attack as 'absolutely wrong'

          Investigators looking into possibility that spy aided militants in Tuesday's deadly attack on U.S. consulate in Benghazi

          Officials have said attacks are too 'coordinated' to be simple angry…

September 14, 2012

Only hours after a US district judge made permanent an injunction that bans the indefinite military detention of Americans without charge, the White House said they’d appeal to continue their efforts to keep a controversial new law on the books.

On Thursday, the Obama administration acknowledged that they plan to challenge a ruling…

September 14, 2012

Several new computers in a Chinese factory were found to have been infected with malware which was installed there, according to a study by Microsoft. This helped the company obtain a United States court order giving it permission to tackle the network of hijacked computers infected with the Nitol malware.

In a …

September 14, 2012

One of the four Americans killed in Libya earlier this week when an American diplomatic mission was stormed on September 11 had been deployed by the US State Department on an intelligence gathering operation to find and destroy dangerous weapons.

Glen Doherty, a 42-year-old former Navy SEAL, told ABC News only one month before his…

9/12/2012

Back in January, Pulitzer winning journalist Chris Hedges sued President Obama and the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, specifically challenging the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force or, the provision that authorizes military detention for…

Sept 13, 2012

Bloody hand prints, stolen documents, and shocking security failings: Inside the crumbling Benghazi compound as it is revealed 'officials knew about attack plans 48 hours before and did nothing'

• Dramatic images of bloody hand prints and crumbling buildings capture horror of Tuesday's attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi,…

SEPT 13, 2012  

The latest Bob Woodward books reveals that Peter Orszag, at the time a columnist for the New York Times, sent a draft of an article to White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett for review and comments before publishing.

9/12/2012

From Climate Central:

The record loss of Arctic sea ice this summer will echo throughout the weather patterns affecting the U.S. and Europe this winter, climate scientists said…

September 12, 2012

The UK Health Authorities are considering making vaccinations compulsory for newborns, vaccinating them with the DPT at birth due to the…

9/11/2012

There were still the tearful messages to loved ones, clutches of photos and flowers, and moments of silence. But 11 years after Sept. 11, Americans appeared to enter a new, scaled-back chapter of collective mourning for the worst terror attack in U.S history.

Crowds gathered, as always, at…