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"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption
48% of Americans Reject Evolution
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon
Daylight Saving Change Saved No Power
Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License
US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus
Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars
OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting?
Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space
Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
What Would You Do As President?
Texas Science Director Forced To Resign Over ID Statements
65% of Americans Spend More Time With Their PC Than SO
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'
Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets
Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination
Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Has Ron Paul Quit?
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law
MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport
Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals
Telecom Immunity -- We're Down to the Wire(tap)
The Best Tech You Can't Get in the US
The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes
Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus
Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual
How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System?
Congress Creates Copyright Cops
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED]
National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers
ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act
Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home
Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs
Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence
Comcast Forging Packets To Filter Torrents
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband"
Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System
Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment
FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database
FCC Moves To Regulate Cable TV Competition
Federal Science Gets More Politicized
House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney
House Passes Patent Overhaul Bill
Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites
Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law
Mitt Romney Answers Tech Questions
National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
Porn Found On L.A. Obscenity Case Judge's Website
Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
Running Your Electric Meter Backwards
Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall
The Doctor Will See Your Credit Score Now
Truck-Mounted Laser Guns
Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales
US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement
US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents?
Venezuelan Interest In U.S. Voting Software
Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat
Pirate Banned From Using Linux
10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here
Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?
Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Breakpoints have now been patented
Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint
Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community
College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB
Comcast Says FCC Powerless to Stop P2P Blocking
DARPA to Raise Robot LANdroid Army
DHS Wants Master Key for DNS
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic
Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism
Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering?
Homeland Security's Tech Wonders
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension
How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be?
Is Comcast Heading the Way of the Dinosaur?
NASA's New Lunar Rover in Action
NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks
NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters
PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License
Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Super Tuesday, McCain Leads Reps, Dems Undecided
Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today
U.S. Copyright Lobby Out of Touch
US Can't Meet The "Grand Challenges" of Physics
US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia
US Lags World In Broadband Access
US Pulls Plug on Low-CO2 Powerplant Project
White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records
Wikipedia Blocks Suspicious Edits From DoJ
Yahoo! Accused of Lying to Congress about Chinese Journalist
111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi
12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment
Another US Tech Trade Deficit
Bill To Outlaw Genetic Discrimination In US
Circuit City Rewards Execs As Stock Tanks
Congress Considers Reform On Orphaned Works
Connecticut Wants to Restrict Social Networking
Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges
Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill
E-Voting Reform Bill Gaining Adherants
Examining Presidential Candidates' Tech Agendas
FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets?
FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified"
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows
FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access
Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena
French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites
Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally
Government Seeks Dismissal of Spy Suit
Helium Crisis Approaching
Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory
More States Challenging National Driver's Licenses
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband
Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x
Open Source Federal Income Tax Software
Patent Office Head Lays Out Reform Strategy
Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame
Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe
REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU
Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted
Science Debate 2008
Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border
Senators Smack Down WIPO Broadcast Treaty
Supreme Court Won't Hear ACLU Wiretap Case
Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic
TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers"
Telco Immunity Goes To Full Debate
U.S. Attorney General Resigns
US Expands Airport Biometric Data Collection
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI
US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma
Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court
Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students?
Creating a Business in the US on an H1-B Visa?
Prepared for Next Year's Time Change?
Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering
Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America
White House Ordered to Preserve All Email
Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel
America's Robot Army
Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
Bill to Bring A La Carte, Indecency Regs to Cable
Congress Must Make Clear Copyright Laws
Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II
DOJ Doesn't Like the Idea of A Copyright Czar
Documents Reveal US Incompetence with Word, Iraq
FBI Data Mining For More Than Just Terrorists
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records
FCC May Move to Cap Cable Company Size
FDA Sees Nanotech Challenges In Every Product Category
FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing
Financial Services Firms Simulate Flu Pandemic
Fixing US Broadband Would Cost $100 Billion
Googlestalking For Covert NSA Research Funding
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise
Human Nature Trumps Homeland Security
IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order
MA Proposes Two Year Jail Term for Online Gambling
Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator
New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor
Permit May Be Required For Public Photography in NYC
Seven States Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment
Student Arrested for Writing Essay
TSA to Contractors - Encrypt Your Laptops
The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins
The Real Problem With the US Patent System
The SoundExchange Billion Dollar Administrative Fee
Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border
U.S. Puts 12 Nations On Watch For Piracy
US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban
US Register of Copyrights Says DMCA Is 'Working Fine'
Verizon Claims Free Speech Over NSA Wiretapping
Western-Style Voting 'A Loser'
White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?
Wildlife Deputy Changed Science For Lobbyists
Will China Beat the United States Back to the Moon?
Green Cars You Can't Buy