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Berwyn, IL Over 70 students participated in a sit-in against the Iraq War on All Saint's Day, Thursday, November 1st. It began third hour when dozens of students gathered quietly in the lunchroom at Morton West High School and refused to leave. The administrators...

By Tammy S. Schultz Friday, November 2, 2007; 6:54 PM This week's outburst by U.S. Foreign Service officers over the potential for forced deployments to Iraq, to make up for a shortage of volunteers, undoubtedly will be met with disdain from members of...

In Sometimes-Brusque 'Snowflakes,' He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy By Robin Wright Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 1, 2007; A01 In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued...

By Leonard Doyle in Washington Published: 01 November 2007 When the US military trains soldiers to resist interrogation, it uses a torture technique from the Middle Ages, known as "waterboarding". Its use on terror suspects in secret US prisons around...

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN – 19 hours ago GRETNA, La. (AP) — A grand jury will not charge anyone in a police blockade that kept hundreds of evacuees from crossing a Mississippi River bridge on foot after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, authorities said...

John K. Tanner, chief of the Justice Department's voting section, has been heavily criticized for comments, including that minorities die before whites. Remarks Wrong but Data Right, He Says By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, October...

Mr Hayden staunchly defended "special methods of questioning" The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, has defended the methods it uses to interrogate terror suspects. Gen Hayden said programmes such as extraordinary...

Four contract workers were banned from FMC Technologies after they hung nooses at one of the firm's Houston facilities, the company announced Tuesday. The three men and one woman also were fired from their jobs with the contractors for FMC, an oil-field...

CNN) -- A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday awarded $10.9 million to a father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of a fundamentalist church carrying signs blaming soldiers' deaths on America's tolerance of homosexuals. A member...