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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The man who revealed that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA said that he was "extraordinarily foolish" to leak her name. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was a source of the CIA leak to columnist Robert Novak. Former...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- He's 83 and just had hip replacement surgery in January, but that isn't keeping former President George H.W. Bush from skydiving. Former President George H.W. Bush free falls Saturday with U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States change their definition of privacy. Donald Kerr, principal deputy director of national intelligence,...

Civil rights advocates criticized plans by the Los Angeles Police Department to map the city's Muslim communities, calling it racial profiling. The LAPD's counterterrorism bureau plans to identify Muslim enclaves in order to determine which might be likely...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York jazz musician and martial arts instructor was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for agreeing to help train al Qaeda fighters in hand-to-hand combat. Tarik Shah, 44, a Muslim born and raised in New York, received...

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. government is closing many of the temporary trailer parks in Orleans Parish, La., that were set up for victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many residents of the trailer parks say they are having trouble finding...

Mon Nov 5, 8:29 AM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Sixty percent of all Americans strongly want the country to change direction after nearly seven years of President George W. Bush's rule, according to a new opinion poll released late Sunday. The survey by The...