Political earthquake: A poll published on Friday in the Yedioth Ahrnonoth daily shows that 63 percent of Israelis feel that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert failed in managing the war in Lebanon and should resign.
Only 29 percent believe the prime minister is fit to continue leading the country.
About 74 percent of those polled said Defense Minister Amir Peretz mishandled the war and should resign his post. A mere 20 percent said Peretz should keep his post.
New poll shows more than 60% have heard news reports of flaws in new electronic voting equipment
A majority of Americans—61%—are aware of news reports of flaws in electronic voting machines and want members of the general public to be able to watch votes be counted following an election, a new Zogby International poll shows.
The telephone survey of 1,018 likely voters was conducted Aug. 11-15, 2006. It carries a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage poin... (more)
Last week, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program was unconstitutional. Subsquently, Taylor was attacked by the conservative group Judicial Watch which claimed that she had a “conflict of interest” because she “serves as a Secretary and Trustee for a foundation that donated funds to the ACLU of Michigan, a plaintiff in the cas... (more)
The trial of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and six other defendants has been adjourned until Sept. 11 so Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri can consider an appeal from defence lawyers about the court's legitimacy.
The decision on Wednesday followed testimony from four witnesses who described scenes of horror after Iraqi planes dropped chemical weapons on Kurdish villages in 1987 and helicopters chased fleeing villagers into the hills.
A Vermont State Police tactical team member prepares to head to Essex Elementary School following a pair of fatal shootings.(AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
ESSEX, Vt. (AP) - A gunman shot five people Thursday, killing two of them, in a rampage through two houses and a northern Vermont elementary school that ended when he wounded himself, police said.
One of the slayings occurred at the school, which was not in session. Police Chief David Demag said he could not conf... (more)
Today on MSNBC, Chris Matthews hosted a segment entitled “Is Iran Next?” Matthews said that Bill Kristol and other neoconservatives “may be right” when they argue that Bush “has to hit” Iran militarily. Watch it:
Matthews didn’t mention that a bi-partisan group of national security experts believe there are no good military options in Iran.
Transcript:
MATTHEWS: Maybe this is moot. But you know I keep hear... (more)
Last night, Bill O'Reilly and Tom McArdle of Investor's Business Daily took turns slamming the federal judge who recently ruled against the NSA's domestic eavesdropping program as a "liberal activist" who may want "Americans to die" or "wish ill wil... (more)
A force of around 4,000 British troops will stay behind in Iraq for an indefinite period, even after all provinces controlled by the UK are handed over to the Baghdad government in nine months' time, senior defence sources said yesterday.
The soldiers will be positioned at a base in Basra ready to act to "protect the investment" made by US and British forces in the country, it was disclosed.
A senior British commander said that it was "feasible" that the last Britis... (more)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday.
Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor the war in Iraq; 61 percent say they oppose it -- the highest opposition noted in any CNN poll since the conflict began more than three years ago.
Despite the rising opposition to the war, President Bush said the U.S. will not w... (more)
Last Wednesday Neil Cavuto hosted a segment on Your World that asked whether "the liberal media is helping to fuel terror" by airing and printing photographs of dead Lebanese, including babies.
Today (August 21, 2006) during a report from Baghdad about the start of Saddam Hussein's second trial, this one for allegedly gassing the Kurds in l988, Fox aired 24 seconds (count that out - it's a long time) of video of the decomposing bodies of Kurds - mostly young children and babies.... (more)
US President George W. Bush has announced that the United States will not be leaving Iraq during his presidency, RAW STORY has learned.
"Either you say, 'Yes it’s important we stay there and get it done,' or we leave," Bush argued. "We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president. That would be a huge mistake."
At a news conference today, Bush also conceded that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
Don't laugh, but a loaner training kayak in the pool of the House of Representatives gym made the difference in President Bush's House victory for a pork-busting line-item veto. "That's spot on," says Colorado Rep. Mark Udall, who helped talk 34 other Democrats into backing the measure 247 to 172. It now faces Senate action. Say outdoor enthusiasts Udall and former Rep. Rob Portman, now Bush's budget director: It was their passion for kayaking and Portman's loaner to the gym that led to their fr... (more)
For months, neoconservatives have been pushing for regime change in Iran. In their latest effort to beat the war drums and undermine diplomacy, they are attaching great significance to August 22 – the date Iran said it would respond to an incentives package from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.
August 22 is a day “some Shiite sects believe…could correspond to the end of the world.” That’s enough for neoconservatives... (more)
It has been about a week now since a flurry of comments on our editors' blog dissected the Internet documentary "Loose Change," along with our coverage of it. Maybe it's a bad idea to stir the pot, but something's bugging me.
Here's what happened: We published a front-page centerpiece Sunday before last about the Web movie putting forward the idea that the federal government planned, executed and covered up the truth about the 9/11 attacks. The three Oneonta-based filmmakers, all ... (more)
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, a tiny percentage of people who lost loved ones or were injured in the attacks sued the aviation industry, spurning a federal compensation fund that ultimately distributed more than $7 billion to more than 5,500 victims.
Now, nearly five years after the historic disaster, roughly 60 lawsuits are still grinding their way through court. And the families pushing ahead with litigation, including numerous New Englanders, are mired in a massive legal ... (more)
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes b... (more)
Terrorism charges against the suspects allegedly involved in a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners are "imminent", The Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
The police are "hugely optimistic" that they will be able to bring charges against many of the suspects in the very near future, according to security sources.
It is also thought that anti-terrorist officers have found the liquid explosive which police believe was intended to be used to destroy up to 10 airliners.... (more)
(CBS/AP) More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.
A six-month Associated Press investigation found that more than 80 military recruiters were disciplined last year for sexual misconduct with potential enlistees. The cases occurred across all branches of the military and in ... (more)
THE French authorities have reopened their inquiry into the circumstances behind the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales after fresh doubts emerged over scientific tests that stated her chauffeur was drunk.
The French director of public prosecutions has authorised a judge to reexamine two forensics experts whose evidence was central to the finding that the 1997 crash in Paris was a simple road accident caused by a drunk driver.
More than 14,000 soldiers left the Army last year, Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures have revealed, raising fears that low morale and "overstretch" in Iraq and Afghanistan is leading to an exodus from the armed forces.
The MoD put the best gloss possible on its latest recruitment figures, indicating that numbers joining had increased. But the figures also showed that the Army shrank last year by 1,500 soldiers.
The campaign group Military Families Against the War sa... (more)
