Ted Kaczynski, the convicted "Unabomber," is upset that his Montana cabin, where he was eventually captured, is part of a display at the Newseum. ...more

August 13, 2008

Anthony J. Russo, a researcher who helped leak the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers to the media and prompted wider public questioning of the war, has died, police said. ...more

August 11, 2008

Bruce E. Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed freeze-drying equipment from a bioweapons lab that fall that allows scientists to convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case. ...more

August 5, 2008

never seem to get old. At any rate, there are two new novels from some famous names. ...more

July 27, 2008

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Wednesday they will together provide $500 million to fight tobacco use around the world, especially in developing countries where smoking rates are rising. ...more

July 24, 2008

Civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson doesn't just disagree with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama about his call for greater personal responsibility in the black community. ...more

July 20, 2008

The remains of two U.S. soldiers killed during the Vietnam War when their helicopter gunship was hit by enemy fire have been identified and will be returned 40 years after the men went missing, the Defense Department announced. ...more

July 19, 2008

You, Master Rall, either suffer from a hyperinflated ego or are inured by a consumptive cynicism. You blaspheme the service of more than 8,000,000 Americans who served honorably in Vietnam. As I read your warped diatribe, it occurs to me you are among the children we fought for in the steaming undergrowth of Southeast Asia and the frozen wastes of North Korea, not to mention the sands and deprivations of Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

July 19, 2008

Despite a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., has continued to use textbooks that teach hatred of everyone not of their specific brand of faith, the U.S. State Department has yet to act to close the school. Officials of the academy, which has about 1,000 students in prekindergarten through grade 12, promised to excise passages in the textbooks that disparage Jews and Christians, but according to an examination by The Washington Post for the 2006-2007 school year, though "much of the controversial material had been removed, at least one book still contained passages that extolled jihad and martyrdom, called for victory over one's enemies and said the killing of adulterers and apostates was 'justified.'" ...more

July 19, 2008