Japanese authorities will continue searching for a missing U.S. university professor on Wednesday, but they will reduce the size of search team, a police official said Tuesday
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Looking for a Wi-Fi hot spot? Try 10,000 feet up
The days of being cut off from the Internet while you’re on a plane are quickly disappearing.
Rice: Bush wouldn’t approve illegal interrogations
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administration’s policies on the interrogation of terrorism suspects Sunday, saying former President George W.
U.S. Air Force joins search for prof missing on Japanese island
Japanese police and U.S. Air Force helicopters were searching Friday for an American university professor who disappeared on a tiny volcanic island in Japan.
U.N. warns of Jerusalem housing crisis
Thousands of Palestinians are facing a housing crisis because of inadequate urban planning by Israeli officials who run the east Jerusalem region, a U.N. report shows. Souter is expected to discuss his decision during a weekly closed-door meeting.
Souter to notify colleagues of retirement, source says
Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to inform his colleagues Friday of his intention to retire from the bench, a legal source said. Souter is expected to discuss his decision during a weekly closed-door meeting. Souter wanted to notify his associates in private before making a public announcement, the source said
House approves $3.44 trillion budget resolution
The House of Representatives passed a $3.44 trillion budget resolution for fiscal year 2010 Wednesday, approving most of President Obama’s key spending priorities and setting the federal government in a new direction with major increases for energy, education and health care programs. The resolution, which was approved by a vote of 233 to 193, passed in a virtual party-line vote.
Leahy wants to probe ‘chain of command’ on torture
An independent commission is needed to determine who authorized the use of abusive interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists, a leading advocate of such a panel said Sunday. “I want to know who was it who made the decisions that we will violate our own laws; we’ll violate our own treaties; we will even violate our own Constitution,” Sen
Steel Wars: Europe and the U.S. Accuse China of Dumping
Are Europe and the U.S.
Why American Idol Keeps Soaring
Theoretically, American Idol should not exist. It’s a broad-based mainstream hit when series like that are no longer supposed to be.