A REPUBLICAN-led committee of the House approved -million in aid for Israel on Thursday despite earlier objections by President George Bush’s administration.
THE Defence Department has spent more than -billion on the war against terrorism.
President George Bush’s overall approval rating has slid steadily downward over the summer, largely because of a major withering of support in the way he is conducting foreign policy, a CBS News-New York Times poll found.
A 37-year-old man was shot last night outside a restaurant near Interstate 95, north of Richmond, in a similar attack to the sniper shootings that have killed nine people in the Washington area.
A second US war against Iraq could cost -billion to 200 billion dollars, up to four times the Pentagon estimate, the White House said, according to a news report on Monday.
The sniper shooting drama that has gripped the Washington area appeared no closer to being solved on Monday, as investigators continue to counsel the public that they are just one good tip away from cracking the case.
US President George Bush had general warnings prior to
September 11 that terrorists, including those led by Osama bin Laden, could hijack American passenger planes, the White House admitted.
The US military has in custody a man who law enforcement officials believe directed an al-Qaida plot to destroy the American Embassy in Singapore, a senior Bush administration official said.
Legal questions aside, US lawmakers say President George Bush needs to seek Congress’ approval before sending American troops to attack Iraq because it’s the right thing to do.
George Bush quashed evidence in the insider dealing inquiry he faced a decade ago, it was claimed yesterday, further undermining White House efforts to restore some confidence in Wall Street.
CHANGES in the UN sanctions regime against Iraq will not stop Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from acquiring material that can be converted to military use, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
The United States has told UN weapons inspectors to put their possible mission to Iraq on hold until the UN Security Council finishes its deliberations on a proposed new inspection regime for the country.
The United States denounced the impending trial in
Zimbabwe of US journalist Andrew Meldrum, calling the case against him evidence of the government’s continued harassment and intimidation of the press.
Before President George Bush goes before the United Nations to make the case for action against Iraq, his administration is facing a tough audience closer to home: Congress.
Most fishermen like to catch and keep the big ones and throw the little guys back, but a new study suggests that it’s better for the fish species to do exactly the opposite.
President George Bush can count on broad support from the US Congress as he mulls plans for attacking Iraq regardless of what the United Nations decides, key lawmakers said on Sunday, while defiant Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein picked up backing from Shiite religious leaders.
US intelligence has received new reports that Osama bin Laden received a kidney transplant in late February, but it’s unclear whether the reports are true.
President George Bush has formally approved -million to train a pan-Iraqi militia to help fight a war against Saddam Hussein.
In yet another blow to the US accounting profession’s reputation, the Internal Revenue Service said that industry giant Pricewaterhouse Coopers has agreed to make a financial payment to settle issues over tax shelter advice it gave its clients in recent years.
The deadly September 11 terror attacks were ”only a start” in the fight against the United States, warned the representative for chief terror suspect Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.
The United States has expressed concern over an Iraqi order for more than a million doses of the nerve gas antidote atropine, amid fears Baghdad may be preparing to use chemical weapons in the event
of military action against it.
Siblings of centenarians have an increased chance of breaking the century mark, according to a study, reinforcing the idea of a longevity gene.
US authorities prepared to take custody on Sunday of top al-Qaida lieutenant Ramzi bin al-Shaiba, a suspected planner of the September 11 attacks who was captured last week in a raid in Pakistan.
Former US Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh was expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday under the terms of a plea agreement struck in July.
US President George Bush will tell the United Nations (UN) next week that United States will act on its own to disarm Iraq unless world leaders take action to do so.
The Bush administration has threatened to respond with nuclear weapons to a nuclear, biological or chemical attack, in what was being seen yesterday as a clear warning to Saddam Hussein not to use his weapons of mass destruction in the event of a war.
The September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were meticulously planned and carried out with military precision.
Everyone knows 9 and 11 and their mournful association. Other numbers, too have meaning. They speak of the magnitude of that day, the tumult of the year.
Initial forensic tests have confirmed that human remains found in Pakistan are those of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Suddenly, US President George Bush is tangling with not one but both of his most denounced international villains: Osama bin Laden and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
President George Bush warned on Saturday of the ”massive and sudden horror” that Iraq could inflict if not disarmed, sharpening his case against Saddam Hussein in advance of a major speech on Monday.
The terrorist threat against the United States is an ”enduring vulnerability” and a ”permanent condition,” the top presidential anti-terrorism advisor.