World Dec 25 Governments Struggle to Create Tsunami Alert System A year after the catastrophic Asian tsunami, governments are still struggling to implement a regional tsunami warning system that could help prevent such massive loss of life in the future.
Politics Dec 23 Alito Supported Wiretaps Without Warrants As a Justice Department lawyer in the 1980s, Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito argued that executive branch officials should not be held liable if they ordered wiretaps without obtaining warrants, according to documents.
Politics Dec 21 Senate Republicans Win Budget Battle, Lose ANWR Bid The Bush administration and GOP allies in the Senate on Wednesday successfully passed a bill they said would trim federal deficits by $39.7 billion over five years.
Politics Dec 20 Sunnis Challenge Early Election Results in Iraq As results begin to take shape from Iraq's Dec. 15 parliamentary elections, Sunni Arabs are calling the voting fraudulent, especially in the Baghdad province.
Nation Dec 20 New York Transit System Grinds to a Halt New York City's transit union workers went on strike in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, causing thousands of New Yorkers to find a different means of getting to work.
World Dec 19 Nations Agree to Phase Out Farm Export Subsidies Trade ministers from 149 nations concluded talks in Hong Kong with a deal on eliminating farm export subsidies by 2013 but without agreements on reducing trade barriers for agricultural and industrial products.
Science Dec 19 Researchers Pinpoint Human Skin Color Gene Scientists have detected a genetic mutation that they say largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago.
Politics Dec 18 President Hails Iraq Election, Urges U.S. Public to Support Policies President Bush, ending a nearly three-week public relations blitz on Sunday that has sought to bolster American support for the ongoing Iraq war, hailed this week's parliamentary elections as a critical step towards creating a free Iraq.
World Dec 17 Bush Adminstration Efforts to Thwart Nuclear Terorrism Criticized Nearly 18 months after the former 9/11 commission issued recommendations for how to prevent another attack within the U.S., the commission still says the Bush administration has failed to do enough to combat the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Science Dec 16 South Korean Stem Cell Scientist Requests Retraction A stem cell researcher, whose team claimed it was able to create 11 stem cell lines genetically matched to certain patients, asked that his work be withdrawn from the journal Science after allegations were made that the results were fabricated.