In a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the secretive court, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, several former judges who served on the panel also voiced skepticism at a Senate hearing about the president’s constitutional authority.

The so-called Spanish Media is NOT REPORTING THE NEWS — IT IS CREATING IT

DIPLOMATIC relations between the United States and Britain will come under strain today as Alan Johnson, the Trade and Industry Secretary, levels accusations of hypocrisy at America for throwing up barriers to foreign trade.

Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips on MK Ultra.

The Lords accepted an offer from the Home Office that anyone applying for a new biometric passport before January 2010 could opt out of having an ID card.

The George W Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program in May 2003 because neo-conservatives who advocated destabilization and regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with Tehran.

Thousands exult in moon’s shadow from Brazil to Mongolia.

There is no evidence that the four army recruits found dead at Deepcut barracks were bullied to death, an independent inquiry has ruled.

General Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was responding to 48 hours of unremitting criticism over the controversial raid, which Iraqi radicals claim resulted in the deaths of 21 unarmed worshippers and an imam.

John Yates, the deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, told MPs that the investigation into the “peerages for loans” scandal could widen and that he was not ruling out criminal charges.

Because the Bush administration, almost from the start, has eschewed any comparison of Iraq with Vietnam, officials apparently never read the history of the nation’s heretofore worst war and have made the same 10 major mistakes.

The two foreign soldiers and 12 Taliban were killed in the initial attack by a large Taliban force on the base in the southern province of Helmand, the U.S. military said.

Cancels Ed Asner’s Appearance.

The grandaddy of all quantum wierdness. Waves that act like particles oh my.

The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers using living neurons.