When Pope John Paul II visited Damascus in May 2001, Bashar used his welcoming speech to denounce the Jews, saying, “They tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.”   read more

If computer manufacturers want to continue doing business in one of the fastest growing PC markets in the world, they will have to oblige demands from China’s government to install censorship software that could also allow officials to spy on user...   read more

A federal judge in New Haven, CT, threw out deportation orders on Monday for four men arrested by immigration agents who demonstrated unacceptable behavior during a 2007 raid. Judge Michael W. Straus ruled that officers with the Immigration and Cu...   read more

Times may be bad for car and home sales, as well as numerous other industries, but the economic troubles plaguing so much of the business world has had no effect on either war or “peace” operations. According to the Stockholm International Peace R...   read more

The loss of immigrant labor would cripple the U.S. dairy industry, causing the economy to lose billions of dollars, according to a new study sponsored by the National Milk Producers Federation. After surveying more than 5,000 dairy farms, research...   read more

About the only thing Laura Ling and Euna Lee are guilty of is bad timing. The two television reporters were captured in March after allegedly entering North Korea via its border with China, just before a series of events that has resulted in tense...   read more

Despite allegations of bribery, despite accounts of over-charging the government, despite reports of faulty work endangering the lives of American soldiers, the companies of Halliburton and its one-time subsidiary KBR are doing better than ever. W...   read more

The State Department has decided to replace its top historian, responsible for overseeing the publication of the U.S. government’s official history of American foreign policy, after an investigation turned up allegations that included a “lack of i...   read more

A Democrat who hails from South Dakota, Jonathan S. Adelstein has spent the past seven years serving as a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), advocating for greater Internet services for rural America. As the head of the Rural U...   read more

Joe Szabo, the first union official ever to lead the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), was confirmed on April 29, 2009. Until his appointment, he worked since the mid-1990s as the top lobbyist in Illinois for the nation’s largest railroad wor...   read more

Continuing a strategy focused on the supply side of the drug problem, the Obama administration on Friday unveiled its counternarcotics policy for the Southwest, calling for greater investment in technology to intercept drug shipments over the U.S....   read more

Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee has vetoed only six bills in his seven years in office, and until last week, the Legislature had never overridden a single one. But lawmakers were determined to overcome Bredesen’s objections when it ...   read more

The Federal Trade Commission last week sent a message to those who support illegal activities on the Internet that there’s a new sheriff in town. In a move deemed unprecedented by some Internet analysts, the FTC got a judge to order the shutdown o...   read more

Long overdue, the democratization of corporate board elections would serve as a check for both management and shareholders, argues Roger Lowenstein, director of the Sequoia Fund. Traditionally, shareholders have had virtually no influence on corpo...   read more

Montgomery County, Maryland, is the site of a fierce debate over whether a local government has the right to designate private property as “historic” against the will of the owner. The property in question is owned by Sherwood Duvall, 90, who ha...   read more

Determined to bring nature back into the urban environment, the city of Leeds in the United Kingdom sponsored a design competition to find new ways of creating habitat for birds and small animals. The winner of the competition devised towers made ...   read more

When President George W. Bush came up with his plan in 2003 to protect the nation’s key computer systems from cyber attacks, he called for collaborative efforts involving public-private partnerships and international organizations, all while prote...   read more