140 tankers and helicopters are dropping hundreds of thousands of pounds of water and flame retardants. Firefighters in the air and on the ground are taking full advantage of high humidity and cool temperature.
24 major wildfires are still raging and the work is far from over. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said that the personnel and resources [...]
Three American hostages were rescued from a Colombian guerrilla organization yesterday. The hostages were held for five years, the longest any American hostage was ever kept.
Together with the Americans was the French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt that has been held since 2002.
US intelligence helped the Colombian government to track and located the hostages. The three American [...]
The United Nations recent drugs report claims that 93% of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan and that massive drug trade has provided $100 million to the Taliban terrorists last year.
Since 2004 the US has spent more than one billion dollars to try to stop the problem with no success. Despite all efforts from the [...]
The US Supreme Court gave the Bush Administration a green light to keep building the 670-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Despite the controversy over environmental laws the Supreme Court has now cleared the way for U.S. officials to carry on with the project.
The court refused the claim from the Sierra Club and Friends of [...]
The U.S Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman is heading to Saudi Arabia where the country is holding an Oil Summit for solutions to the high oil prices.
The Secretary will stay only one day in Saudi Arabia, but Bodman expects Saudi Arabia to announce an increase in the oil supply.
Bodman said that the Saudis can surely increase [...]
For British police the new bill means more time to bring charges to terrorist suspects and fewer rights for the accused.
The bill was approved by 315 votes to 306. Gordon Brown´s approved bill extends the pre-charge detention of terrorist suspects to 42 days.
Many people are saying that the new bill is against human rights [...]
Military leaders of the air force were fired on Thursday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the ouster of air force secretary Michael win and also chief of staff general Tim Michael as he revealed findings from a report about the mishandling of nuclear weapons.
The investigation concluded that nuclear weapons have been improperly handled when on [...]
Texas is expected to pay a final bill of 7 million dollars as a result of the Polygamy case. The cost includes everything from food, shelter, legal costs and the transportation to remove the children from the Ranch and returning them to their parents.
The children were taken last month from a Polygamist ranch in El [...]
The national average of $3.98 a gallon on gas prices is making millions of Americans to leave their cars at home and turn to mass transit.
Recent reports shows that ridership have increased 3% on the first quarter of the year. Transit authorities are boosting their buses route. Light rail transit is also up around 15% [...]
Researchers found a lost tribe in the Amazon, and researchers claimed that they have been pushed slowly from the Peruvian territory into the Brazilian part of the Amazon.
The tribe was photographed pointing bows and arrows to the aircraft that was taking the photographers and they seem to be very scared with the situation. The tribe [...]
