In what is seen as a major blow to George W. Bush's 'war on terror' policy, the US supreme court has ruled that foreign detainees at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison have the right to challenge their imprisonment at US civilian courts in...
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America stands divided, this time not on the basis of racial segregation rather on the question of a female president. Just before New Hampshire Primary polls by a group of young men shouting slogans "Iron our shirts." The world decried this male...
Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York couldn’t have asked for deeper trouble than he is in now. Losing trust of the family (Although his wife stood by him during his confession speech), friends and those 70% people of New York who thought that he...
Proving pollsters wrong, Hillary Clinton pulled it off in New Hampshire to give a fillip for her campaign to be the first woman president of America.
The win was unexpected, especially after the media spin machine had more or less written her off...
The US Election is not just an American affair. Being the most powerful nation in the world, its politics goes beyond its shores and has a global impact that touches our lives who live in distant places.
Barack Obama winning the Iowa caucus ahead of...
Who better than a husband to vouch for that the wife is a genius.
The Clinton's dynastic ambitions have been harping upon experience against Obama campaign for change.
Though Republican Ron Paul has raised eyebrows about his proposal to rid...
The wait is over and the show is set to get underway. American citizens would start voting tonight to select their Democrat and Republican Presidential candidates starting from the small icy Midwestern state of Iowa. The race is tight on both sides...
During the 17th Annual San Diego Balloon Parade this year, a tragic incident shadowed, over the celebration, among the people of San Diego in California. The giant doll, Hello Kitty accidentally stomped on and killed 16 people, who had come as...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, while acknowledging the progress made in Iraq security-wise, has tentatively provided a time frame for the withdrawal of American troops stationed on Iraqi soil. Many would say that Secretary Gates has offered the...
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So the Annapolis peace talks are on. Though Bush is gung-ho about them, the Palestinian and Israeli people have little hope they will yield anything substantial.They are right because the parties that really matter are not attending- Hamas and...
Why is it that we love to hear about the fall of Churchmen? And why is it that we hide it behind grave concerns about the victims? Ironically, in such news items the focus is always on the perpetrator of abuse and the victims are mentioned as...
The name Norman Mailer sounds very familiar to me. I came across this particular writer while searching google for contemporary American writers. Unfortunately, the sad news is: the literary king passed away recently at 84. Here's more on his life,...
As five more soldiers died in a recent encounter in Iraq added to a number of recorded deaths makes this year as the deadliest based on Associated Press (AP) report. With the recorded annual toll of 852 deaths in U.S. military workforce in Iraq, AP...
It was never a secret that many Catholic priests were child abusers. The children always knew. Associated Press reports of a new allegation has been made against Fr. Donald McGuire of the Society of Jesus in Chicago. This same Society runs some of...
The US Roman Catholic Church is going to draw flak for being faithful to her dogmas once again. In an opportunistic and self-destructively secular US where punching the Church is fashionable, about 300 US bishops will vote for consensus on key...
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