As more people opt for fewer car trips, carpooling, and public transportation, environmentalists point out that high fuel prices are also leading to reduced carbon emissions.
An interrogation class at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was based on a 1957 study of Chinese Communist techniques used to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
A military law blog pointed out that a central part of the Supreme Court?s analysis leading it to rule against capital punishment for child rape was based on incorrect information.
Experts say the troubles dogging the economy will be stubborn, leaving in place a combination of tight credit and scant job opportunities perhaps well into next year.
AP - Police and FBI agents captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states as he smoked a cigarette outside of a southwestern Illinois bar Tuesday night.
AP - The Pentagon has revised its policy for recruits who must get waivers for past bad behavior, but officials stopped short of eliminating waiver requirements for petty crimes, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - John McCain said Tuesday he had pressed Colombia President Alvaro Uribe to improve his government's record on human rights but praised his efforts to stabilize the country and reduce the flow of drugs into the United States.
State and federal investigators on Tuesday said they spent the past two days gathering evidence in the last documented mass lynching in the United States -- a grisly slaying of four people that has remained unsolved for more than six decades.
An ex-con with a history of violence who agents believe killed eight people in Missouri and Illinois has been captured, authorities said. Nicholas Troy Sheley, 28, was caught in Granite City, Illinois, after a police and FBI manhunt. A bulletin issued by the St. Louis County Police Department had warned Sheley told his ex-wife that he had "more killing to do."
A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which today released surveillance video of the incident. The hospital's owner said it suspended or terminated six employees after a preliminary inquiry.