"I don't think it is". With those five words Ed Balls ends any suggestion that next week's vote on extending detention without charge to 42 days should be treated as a vote of confidence in the government.

Four years ago, Election Day was a month away, and P. Diddy was threatening to kill people who didn’t vote. I blamed George Bush for all of the world’s problems like a Southern Baptist blames the devil. I put my money where my mouth was and spent hour

City officials and Italian Red Cross workers began a census of Rome's Gypsy population but said Friday that they will not participate in a national push to fingerprint all Gypsies

INDIANAPOLIS ( Map , News ) - Democrat Barack Obama on Friday blamed high gasoline prices on Washington and a political establishment, including his rivals for the presidency, that he says hasn't stood up to oil companies.

BY BRIAN McNEILL Media General News Service A University of Virginia medical researcher from the Middle East has been placed on leave without pay after the federal government denied his green card application and revoked his work authorization. Dr. Alaa A