By Edmund L. Andrews | The New York Times | Mar. 29, 2008
The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Mar. 28, 2008
At least 163 Iraqis were killed and 214 were wounded in the latest reports of violence. These figures included updated numbers from the Mahdi Army battles taking place since Tuesday. Fighting appears to be subsiding in Baghdad, but the Mahdi Army has expanded its control in Basra. One American soldier was died after an IED attack south of Baghdad today. Meanwhile U.S. forces were dragged deeper into the fighting across Iraq. British troops have remained uninvolved, even in Basra where they are stationed. Also, the situation for civilians in Basra and Sadr City is becoming desperate as food and water supplies dwindle.

By David Edwards & Chris Tackett | RawStory.com | Mar. 28, 2008
With rising casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan and violations of privacy in the United States and abroad being popular discussion topics, advances in military robotics and spy technology have also become a popular topic of news coverage.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Mar. 27, 2008
Although the fighting continues in Basra, followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad instead took to the streets in mostly peaceful protests. The cleric himself has asked for peace talks, but the prime minister is refusing. At least 225 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 538 more were wounded in various incidents across Iraq. Also, the FBI is in possession of three new bodies belonging to kidnapped American contractors, and an American soldier was killed this afternoon by an IED explosion in Baghdad.

By Geoffrey Lean | The Independant | Mar. 31, 2008
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

AFP | April, 1, 2008
CIA director Michael Hayden warned Sunday that Al-Qaeda was training operatives who "look western" and could enter the United States undetected to conduct terrorist attacks.

Phil McKenna |  NewScientist.com | Mar. 27, 2008
Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.

By Franco Ordonez | McClatchy Newspapers | Mar. 28, 2008
Nearly 1,000 Mexican troops arrived at the Ciudad Juarez airport Friday to deal
with a surge in drug war violence that's sent tremors throughout the country, local media reported.

By Catherine Herridge and Ian McCaleb | Fox News | Mar. 28, 2008
The FBI has narrowed its focus to "about four" suspects in the 6 1/2-year investigation of the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, and at least three of those suspects are linked to the Army’s bioweapons research facility at Fort Detrick in Maryland, FOX News has learned.

BBC | Mar. 26, 2008
It has emerged that Barack Obama is a tenth cousin, once removed, of the man whose job he wants - George W Bush. They are linked by Samuel Hinkley of Cape Cod, who died in 1662. Mr Obama is also a distant cousin of the actor Brad Pitt while Hillary Clinton is related to Mr Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.

By Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet | Mar. 29, 2008
Calls for a new 9/11 inquiry are reaching a crescendo, with well-respected authorities and celebrities alike adding their voices to the cause, as the official 9/11 story crumbles under the weight of revelations of White House ties to the 9/11 Commission, and other cover-ups on behalf of authorities staffed with investigating the attacks.

NPR | Mar. 11, 2008
With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. This was just one of the difficult lessons writer Benjamin Skinner learned while researching his book, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery.

By Nick Allen | The Telegraph | Mar. 27, 2008
The doctor at the centre of the controversy over the MMR vaccine has denied committing serious professional misconduct, saying it had been his "duty as a physician and a human being" to investigate potential links between the jab and autism in children.

By Brad Buchholz | American Statesmen | Mar. 23, 2008
As a Muslim, U.S. Army Chaplain James Yee stood tall for humanity while ministering to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay - to the point that he was arrested and falsely accused of treason. One year after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Army Chaplain James Yee — a converted Muslim, born and raised in America — was sent to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility with the assignment of a lifetime. His job: to minister to the prisoners there, in service to the United States.

By Tom Brown | Reuters | Mar. 26, 2008
Miami police could soon be the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, spy-in-the-sky technology to beef up their fight against crime. A small pilotless drone manufactured by Honeywell International, capable of hovering and "staring" using electro-optic or infrared sensors, is expected to make its debut soon in the skies over the Florida Everglades.

L.A. Times | Mar. 26, 2008
Signs of distress are piling up in the California housing market, where prices are falling at three times the national rate of decline.

By David Edwards & Nick Juliano | RawStory.com | Mar. 26, 2008
Forty years after Democratic rising star Robert F. Kennedy was killed at a Los Angeles hotel during his presidential run, new evidence suggests the man serving a life sentence for his murder did not fire the shots that killed the charismatic senator.

By David Edwards and Nick Juliano | The Raw Story | Mar. 26, 2008
A once-abandoned town in the middle of the New Mexico desert now is victim to "more bombings than Jerusalem ... more terrorist attacks that Baghdad," the Associated Press reports.

By Graeme Paton | Telegraph | Mar. 25, 2008
They said schools were being "asked to play a partisan role in war" because some recruitment material targeted at children presented a skewed vision of life in the Armed Forces.

Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet | March 26, 2008
The American Society of Civil Engineers - an organization that was funded by FEMA to investigate the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11 - has been accused of engaging in a cover-up to protect the government, with critics charging the organization falsified conclusions that skyscrapers could not withstand getting hit by airplanes.

Reuters | Mar. 26, 2008
NATO forces sent jets to escort two Russian long-range air force bombers patrolling neutral skies near Alaska on Wednesday, Russian news agencies quoted the defense ministry as saying.

By David Edwards and Mike Sheehan | The Rawstory | Mar. 25, 2008
Former senator Gary Hart is criticizing the sensationalistic tendencies of the media in the 2008 Democratic nomination process.

Associated Press | Mar. 25, 2008
If you're seeing your grocery bill go up, you're not alone. From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions. Freak weather is a factor. But so are dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves and growing consumer demand in China and India.

by William Lajeunesse | Fox News | Mar. 25, 2008
A mandate to hire 6,000 new border agents by the end of 2008 has lowered qualification tests, concentrated four months of training into 10 weeks and is raising concerns that recruits won't get the proper training they need to protect the borders.

Associated Press | Mar. 25, 2008
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced Tuesday that the United States mistakenly shipped to Taiwan four electrical fuses designed for use on intercontinental ballistic missiles, but has since recovered them.

The Huffington Post | Mar. 25, 2008
Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good."

By Andrei Makhovsky | Reuters | Mar. 25, 2008
The intelligence agency in Belarus, an ex-Soviet state locked in a diplomatic row with Washington, confirmed on Tuesday that a espionage ring working for the United States had been uncovered in the country.

The Rawstory |  Mar. 25, 2008
The U.S. military blamed Iranian-backed Shiite militia factions on Monday for a spate of rocket attacks that struck the Green Zone and surrounding areas, a day after the overall U.S. death toll in the five-year conflict rose to 4,000.

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Ron Paul Campaign PR person Jesse Benton tells Fox news that Ron Paul supporters are retaking the Republican party from the ground up.

NBC 4 | Mar. 14, 2008
A crackdown on guns is meeting some resistance in the District. Police are asking residents to submit to voluntary searches in exchange for amnesty under the District's gun ban. They passed out fliers requesting cooperation on Monday.

By Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Mar. 23, 2008
With the loss of four soldiers in Baghdad today, the U.S. death tally now stands at 4000 American military deaths. At least 91 Iraqis were also killed and 152 more were wounded during the latest round of violence. In Baghdad, rockets targeting mostly the Green Zone left several casualties. Meanwhile, a series of attacks on mostly police units left a significant number of dead and injured in Mosul. Also, Iranian forces continue their attacks on rebel locations in northern Iraq.

BBC | Mar. 23, 2008
Cancer Research and the British Heart Foundation are among more than 200 charities in favour of the creation of human-animal hybrids for research.

By John Coghlan | Telegraph | Mar. 24, 2008
British Special Forces are conducting covert operations against drug smugglers in southern Afghanistan for the first time. The operations represent a shift from the British military's long-held opposition to direct involvement in Afghanistan's drugs war. British Special Forces in Helmand province had previously been limited to targeting members of the Taliban leadership.

The Daily Mail | Mar. 24, 2008
Faith schools undermine community relations and should be abolished, according to teachers.Britain's biggest classroom union - the National Union of Teachers - will debate calls for all faith schools to be brought within a secular state education system.

AFP | Mar. 24, 2008
The death toll of US soldiers in the five-year Iraq conflict has hit 4,000 in what the US military said Monday was a "tragic" loss of lives after four troops were killed in a Baghdad bombing.

By Jonathan | TruthAlliance.net | Mar. 23, 2008
Fox News, some call it the create propaganda network, has done it again.  A statement made by Barack Obama is twisted to attempt to make him look bad, after 2 hours of bashing by Fox and Friends.

By Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet.org | Posted March 21, 2008.
As Ohio election officials investigate illegal crossover voting in the 2008 primary, questions arise on Limbaugh's role.

By Jonathan | TruthAlliance.net | Mar. 20, 2008
The Advisory Board to the City and County of Denver's water treatment was confronted by We Are Change Colorado about the dangers of Fluoride today March 20th, 2008.

By Jim Davenport | The Associated Press | Mar. 20, 2008
With a deadline looming for states to seek extensions on complying with stricter driver's license requirements, South Carolina lawmakers urged the governor Thursday to ask for one so residents won't be hampered when boarding airplanes or entering federal buildings.

By Eric Brewer | RawStory.com | Mar. 20, 2008
I had a lot of fun at the White House Wednesday afternoon, and not because I made Dana Perino mad. In fact, I felt a little sorry for her today. It's not her fault that Bush's speechwriters put ludicrous statements into his speeches.

By Steve Holland | Reuters | Mar. 19, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton now argues that the North American Free Trade Agreement needs to be renegotiated, but newly released records showed on Wednesday she promoted its passage.