Pentagon wants behemoth bunker buster ASAP
WASHINGTON The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground. Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain nea...
 4.6K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 381.0 N. Korea test fires 5 short-range missiles
SEOUL, South Korea North Korea fired five short-range missiles off its east coast today, news reports said, even as South Korea proposed working-level talks with its communist neighbor. South Korea s Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified South...
3.4K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 381.0 Bloody siege at Pakistan army HQ
Nahal Toosi and Zarar Khan, Associated Press Writers RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages held by militants at the army's own headquarters Sunday, ending a bloody, 22-hour drama that embarrassed the nation's milita...
6.0K - Oct. 11, 2009; scored 381.0 Pilot's remains found in Iraq desert
WASHINGTON (AP) The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly two-decade old question about the fate of Navy pilot Capt. Michael Scott Speicher. The Pe...
8.3K - Aug. 2, 2009; scored 572.0 Clinton makes push to end nuke program
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) North Korea must completely and irreversibly end its nuclear weapons program or face further isolation and the unrelenting pressure of international sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. A...
6.2K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 423.0 North Korea's Kim Jong II has cancer
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a news report said today, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke las...
5.1K - Jul. 13, 2009; scored 520.0 U.S.: No force in search of ship
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned goods, an American official was quoted as saying today. An American destroyer has been shadowing the North Korean freighter sa...
3.8K - Jun. 26, 2009; scored 520.0 South Korea braces for 3rd nuclear test by North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea was bracing for a possible third nuclear test by the North, which a U.S. official said was likely despite looming U.N. sanctions on the communist state for its previous test in May. Given the North s track record...
1.1K - Jun. 12, 2009; scored 320.0 Leaders seek unified North Korea response
SEOUL, South Korea - World leaders sought a unified response today to North Korea's latest provocation as the communist regime made final preparations for a controversial rocket launch and Japan braced for the possibility of falling debris. With tens...
5.1K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 595.0 Light on intelligence experience, CIA nominee and D.C. insider Panetta faces senate hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Intelligence Committee is taking up a hearing President Barack Obama s nominee for a high-profile national security post the surprising pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA. Going into today s public hearing, the former...
1.3K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 320.0 Israeli forces storm into Gaza City neighborhood
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli ground troops closed in on downtown Gaza City today, battling Palestinian militants in the streets of a densely populated neighborhood, destroying dozens of homes and sending terrified residents running for cover as gu...
8.1K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 381.0 Obama makes picks for CIA, national intelligence
WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama s selection of an old White House hand to head the CIA shows a preference for a strong manager over an intelligence expert. Obama s decision to name Leon Panetta to lead the premier U.S. intelligence agency s...
7.2K - Jan. 6, 2009; scored 1000.0 | 
