tuesday reads

A Chilean judge has ordered the detention of almost 100 former soldiers and secret police officers from General Augusto Pinochet's regime as part of investigations into human rights abuses, according to reports.


Corruption on the rise in DHS Border Patrol.


Morris Talansky, the U.S. businessman at the center of an investigation into Ehud Olmert, testified that he handed the Israeli prime minister cash-filled envelopes before he led the government.


Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Takes Over


The Bush administration has a pet word to describe its regulatory policy. The word is "transparent."


On Memorial Day weekend, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and VA Secretary James Peake stood side-by-side in Fairbanks, Alaska to showcase their opposition to--and lack of respect for--today's newest veterans.


Thirty illegal kitchen workers were occupying a restaurant amid tense scenes in the heart of tourist Paris yesterday.


The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines.


French skydiver Michel Fournier's bid to set a new altitude freefall record was scuppered Tuesday when the balloon that was to carry him into the stratosphere separated from the gondola.