You don’t need a thermometer, The Weather Channel or even Al Gore to know it’s hot but you can be sure that scientists will issue an official report confirming that the first half of 2006 was the hottest on record.
A former Bush administration official killed his 12-year-old son and then himself in Northern Virginia’s fashionable McLean residential area Thursday night.
Anyone who’s lived in the National Capital Region, and we lived there for 23 years, knows the angony of traffic backups on The Wilson Bridge, a bridge born to be bad but a span over the Potomac River whose life ends today.
A National Park Service employee on Staten Island New York has a different concept on how people should enjoy this nation’s parks. He stands accused of luring a 13-year-old girl to his apartment, raping her, and then turning her into a sex toy for other men.
Supporters of same-sex marriage suffered another defeat on Friday when an appellate court ruled a Nebraska ban on such unions was not unconstitutional.
The United States has few options and limited leverage as old animosities in the Middle East overtake hopes for peace and democracy.
Iraq war, escalating violence in Washingtin and politics as usual.
A “low-grade civil war” is under way in Iraq that could erupt into full-scale war among the nation’s rival ethnic and religious groups, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said this week.
Leading Republican senators were scratching their heads Thursday as they tried to make sense of what the Bush administration wants Congress to do about setting rules for military tribunals to try terrorism suspects.
If the Iraqi government does not bring the religious violence in the country under control in the next six months, Iraq’s citizens will believe it’s powerless to govern, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday.