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A delightful display of planets and the moon will occur on New Year's Eve for anyone wishing to step outside and look up just after sunset....Link
The divisions taking hold among Republicans are becoming more severe as the party prepares to accuse its outgoing president of embracing "socialism.".....Link
Deepening economic strife in the US could lead to civil unrest and violence that would require military intervention, warns a new report from the US Army War College..Link
WASHINGTON December 28, 2008, 02:55 pm ET · The two most influential women in President George W. Bush's White House — first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who are calling his administration one of the worst in history.Link
Ron Paul, House representative of the 14th district of Texas, believes that US foreign policy must be reformed to avoid conflicts around the world..Link
The dollar fell versus the euro and yen on Monday, weighed down by escalating violence between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, dealing a further blow to the US economy, dealers said....Link
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) called for an independent investigation to be led by the United Nations into the recent eruption of violence between Israel and Hamas along the Gaza strip that has killed scores of innocent civilians.Link
The war in Iraq, nearly into its sixth year, has become too expensive and remains too dangerous for US television networks to justify maintaining full-time correspondents in the war zone....Link
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip from the air on Sunday and prepared for a possible invasion after killing at least 298 Palestinians in two days of attacks....Link
As George W Bush prepares to leave the White House, at least one unpleasant episode from his unpopular presidency is threatening to follow him into retirement...Link
The White House faced yet another crisis Friday as a photo emerged of President Bush shaking hands with Robert Toussie, the father of the pardoned, and then unpardoned, housing scammer Isaac Toussie...Link
According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), US wind producers enjoyed another record year of growth in 2008—the third in a row. The country now has an installed wind power capacity well in excess of 21,000 megawatts (MW), enough to supply electricity to over 5.5 million American homes...Link
While it has seemed an impossible goal for nearly 100 years, scientists now believe that they are on brink of cracking one of the biggest problems in physics by harnessing the power of nuclear fusion, the reaction that burns at the heart of the sun......Link
The U.S. wind industry has been a world leader, installing an impressive 5,244 megawatts in 2007. The U.S. offshore wind industry is another story, with no offshore wind farms yet developed. The tides may be changing however 4.7 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in Nantucket Bay......link
Norm Coleman just got a Christmas present from the Minnesota Supreme Court: A giant lump of coal....Link
A new report from the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute says that the U.S. military must quickly prepare for massive civil unrest that could be precipitated by an “unforeseen economic collapse”.....Link
A CBS News investigation has obtained evidence that a subsidiary of Halliburton, the giant energy company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, knowingly exposed United States soldiers to toxic materials in Iraq...Link