Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal government has made limited progress toward preventing a catastrophic nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil and in combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction abroad, according to a report card to be issued today by 22 former U.S. officials. ...more

September 10, 2008

The United States gained key international backing Saturday for a bitterly contested plan to sell peaceful nuclear technology to India - a South Asia powerhouse that has tested atomic weapons but has refused to sign global nonproliferation accords. ...more

September 7, 2008

The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman. ...more

September 6, 2008

FBI scientists early on had - but destroyed - the unique strain of anthrax used in the deadly 2001 attacks that years later would lead them to Bruce Ivins, the government's top suspect in the nation's biggest bioterror case. ...more

August 19, 2008

The White House and the CIA on Tuesday adamantly denied a report that the Bush administration concocted a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq war. ...more

August 6, 2008

The mangonel was the big gun of antiquity. But this siege engine, used to catapult rocks, burning objects or dead animals into fortified cities, troubled Islamic scholars. Some early authorities disallowed it on the ground that it was an indiscriminate weapon. ...more

July 27, 2008

BARTOW - A felon accused of possessing a hoax weapon of mass destruction will be held without bail, a judge in Polk County ruled this afternoon. ...more

June 12, 2008

A leading AIDS expert, a groundbreaking pediatric neurosurgeon and a lawmaker who was the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress are among this year's recipients of the nation's highest civilian award. ...more

June 12, 2008

After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant! ...more

June 3, 2008

It was a regular schadenfreude fest for some of you satisfied customers who read with such great delight a column on the end of my WFLA, 970 AM radio show. ...more

June 1, 2008