NYPD Chief Casts Doubt on Giuliani Expense Story

New questions were raised today about Rudy Giuliani's explanation for submitting police security expenses to obscure city agencies while he was mayor of New York and carried on a secret...

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Military Overmedicating Troops, Counselors Charge

Instead of providing proper counseling and care for Iraq war veterans suffering from physical and psychological pain, too often the U.S. military is trying to medicate the problem away, according...

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Deadliest Year Yet for Troops in Afghanistan

It's been a bad year in Afghanistan, the deadliest for international troops in that country, as 223 U.S. and NATO soldiers have been killed so far this year, 111 of...

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Watchdogs: China Bullies Journalists, IOC Stands Mute

In advance of hosting the next Summer Olympic Games, China continues to bully journalists, and a human rights group says the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ignored its responsibility to...

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Musharraf Rival Linked to Bin Laden

The former prime minister of Pakistan, now one of President Pervez Musharraf's chief political rivals, once received a million-dollar payoff from Osama Bin Laden as a thanks for not cracking...

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Harsh Treatment for Marines Caught Using Illicit Drugs

Editor's Note from Brian Ross: In the third year of a joint project with the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation, six leading graduate school journalism students were again selected to spend the...

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Giuliani's Mistress Used N.Y. Police as Taxi Service

Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior...

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Bin Laden to Europe: Get Out of Afghanistan

Osama bin Laden is calling on European nations to end their support of "America's oppression" in Afghanistan in an audiotape message just released. Video: Listen to an excerpt of Bin...

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Giuliani's Ties to Qatar Raise Questions for Mr. 9/ll

Contracts awarded to Rudy Giuliani's private security firm in the Gulf state of Qatar were overseen by a government minister suspected of harboring the al Qaeda terrorist who planned the...

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Group Takes on Feds' Cell Phone Tracking

The American Civil Liberties Union wants to know more about the U.S. government's reported practice of tracking people using their mobile phone signal. In a Freedom of Information Act request,...

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