At first glance, the E-mail is terrifying: Cough up $20,000, or you will be killed by a hit man: "Tell me now are you ready to do what I said or do you want me to proceed with my job? Answer Yes/No and don't ask any questions!!!" one E-mail said.
Deafened by the media buzz for new Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is the renewed chatter among top Republicans that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears to be forming his campaign operation faster than planned. White House and GOP leadership officials noted today that Romney's wave of appointments and listing of backers is a sign that he's pushing up plans to forcefully challenge Sen. John McCain.
AP - A Democrat-driven resolution on Iraq that has attracted the support of at least two Republicans threatens to expose fissures within the GOP over the unpopular war.
AP - A year after disclosure of a domestic spying program that President Bush maintained was within his authority to operate, the administration shifted its position and said it would seek the approval of an independent panel of federal judges.
AP - A suicide car bomber killed 17 Shiites at a teeming Sadr City market Wednesday, while gunmen in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad shot up a convoy of democracy workers in an ambush that took the lives of an American woman and three bodyguards.
Colombian national police recovered close to $50 million in U.S. currency as well as other money during three raids in the past week on houses used to stash drug proceeds, a U.S. official told CNN. It is thought to be the most money ever seized by a law enforcement agency in the world, said the official, who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the investigation.
Authorities are examining similarities between the disappearances of Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby and the 1991 disappearance of 11-year-old Arlin Henderson. They are also looking into whether Michael Devlin, 41, joined a 2005 search for another missing child to learn police techniques. Devlin's bond was Wednesday set at $3 million, cash only.
The Bush administration has agreed to allow a federal court that specializes in wiretap requests to oversee its non-warrant electronic surveillance program, the Justice Department said Wednesday.Bush cedes power over domestic spying