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

It is possible for humans and nature to get along, according to the United Nations, and to prove it, the world body has been designating those areas where harmony indeed reigns. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...   read more

Pakistan’s poorly trained military is attacking cities with heavy artillery and firing capriciously to drive insurgents out, while fighter jets and helicopter gun ships fire hundreds of missiles into unsuspecting residential areas. “Imagine the ca...   read more

Law enforcement officers can continue interrogating accused criminals even after they have requested legal counsel, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a landmark ruling from the mid-1980s. In a ruling on Tuesday (Montejo v. Louisiana),...   read more

Before he was patrolling the dusty roads of Afghanistan, Captain Kirk Black was a police officer and SWAT team member in Baltimore. Although quite skeptical when it comes to hearing prisoners’ claims of innocence, Black found the case of one Afgha...   read more

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been buying enriched uranium from Russia in an effort to help its former adversary do away with its surplus of nuclear weapons material. Until now the purchases were a “blend” of both weapons-...   read more

Americans spends too much time and money prosecuting minor legal infractions, draining the U.S. court system of precious dollars and leaving defendants without adequate legal defense, according to a new study by the National Association of Crimina...   read more

In recent years a strange series of maneuverings have quietly encircled the little-known U.S. Parole Commission, which has managed to remain operative despite the fact that the government did away with parole for federal prisoners 25 years ago. Th...   read more

Two of three Tiananmen protesters jailed for vandalizing Mao Zedong’s portrait 20 years ago have been granted political asylum in the United States. On May 23, 1989, Yu Dongyue, Yu Zhijian, and fellow activist Lu Decheng threw eggshells filled wit...   read more

Bruce Robertson usually spends his time as a private detective hunting down cheating spouses and insurance criminals. But these days he’s tracking down a shooter—of two endangered California condors. The birds were found in March by biologists who...   read more

The Oenga family of Inupiat Eskimos has filed its second lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) over mismanaging a decades old lease agreement between the family and British Petroleum (BP). The Oenga family is seeking up to $200 millio...   read more

President Obama’s stimulus package includes more than $6 billion in stimulus money to clean up 18 nuclear sites from New York to California. This is double the previous annual funding for the program. However, the contractors who have been critici...   read more

President Barack Obama’s pledge to increase enforcement of anti-trust legislation should start with our agribusiness industry, argues Paula Crossfield, the managing editor of Civil Eats. She maintains that a handful of companies control every step...   read more

He once made it explicitly clear: “I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.” Those were Barack Obama’s words, back when he was an Illinois state senator six years ago. Then, he said it was a matter of the Democrats winning...   read more

If the matter of Nancy Pelosi vs. the CIA was a court case, and the Central Intelligence Agency has to testify on its own behalf, it would have a serious credibility issue, stemming from its history of lying to Congress. The current House Speaker ...   read more

More Americans died in World War I than in Korea or Vietnam, but unlike those conflicts, whose participants have been honored in the nation’s capital, the veterans of the “war to end all wars” have yet to get their memorial. On the National Mall i...   read more

Readjusting to civilian life often proves difficult for many veterans returning home from war, as they battle psychological problems, alcoholism or drug addiction. For those whose demons get them into trouble with the law, there is now an alternat...   read more