A Blind Eye Toward Turkey’s Crimes

    Theoretically, it would be a great story for the American press: an autocrat so obsessed with overthrowing the leader of a neighboring country that he authorizes his intelligence services to collaborate with terrorists in staging a lethal sarin attack to be blamed on his enemy and thus trick major powers to launch punishing bombing raids…

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      Pub Series Women’s Standings After 5 of 6 Races

      Following Race No. 5 of 6, Bernie‰Ûªs Run 3M   WOMEN OVERALL (Top 50 Score)   1. Ginger Reiner                         249 2. Holly Madden                         231 3. Candice Gagnon                     224 4. Deb Downs                             209 5. Eileen Cakouros                     198 6. Amanda Watters                     186 7. Elizabeth Utz                          184 8. Katrina Martin                        177 9. Victoria Bok                           167 10. Marge Bellisle…

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        William Ruckelshaus, Who Defied Nixon In ‘Saturday Night Massacre,’ Dies At 87

        Then-acting FBI Director William D. Ruckelshaus pauses during a May 1973 news conference in Washington, D.C. Ruckelshaus died Wednesday at the age of 87. William D. Ruckelshaus, the nation’s first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and a former deputy attorney general who was perhaps best known for defying President Nixon during the Watergate scandal,…

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          Progressive Challenger Delivers 'Political Scare' But Blue Dog Democrat Ekes Out Victory in Illinois Primary

          Despite Blue Dog Democrat Dan Lipinski’s conservative record, the anti-choice congressman narrowly defeated primary challenger Marie Newman in Illinois’s 3rd District on Tuesday in a race that has been closely watched at a national level. “Can the progressive wing of the party mount a powerful enough challenge to entrenched, well-funded incumbents that it can threaten…

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