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With the U.S. economy's current troubles, many people assume a crime wave is just around the corner. But criminologists say that's just an American myth.

As the presidential candidates head into the general election some analysts, citing the "Bradley Effect," question whether polls showing Sen. Barack Obama's lead over Sen. John McCain will shrink at the voting booth. The term was coined after L.A. Mayor T

Democratic and Republican bloggers have joined forces to punish members of Congress who voted for a revised government surveillance bill backed by the White House. One independent online group raised roughly $350,000 to spend on anti-FISA TV and radio ads

A technique used by National Public Radio to get its audio content indexed by Google seems acceptable to the search engine despite apparently violating its own guidelines about cloaking.

After a two-day visit to Afghanistan, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will next head to Iraq on the second leg of a global tour designed to bolster his foreign policy credentials. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson in Baghdad talks to host Andrea

The members of the FBI's Special Surveillance Group team, or SSGs, operate just below the radar — and that is where they are most effective.

Some Afghan-watchers worry that the West is repeating mistakes that the Soviet Union made in the 1980s when it sent troops there to prop up a communist regime. Among other issues, they say it is focusing too much on a military approach and not enough on r

When the movie <em>The Dark Knight</em> opens Thursday, thousands of people will be haunted by the late Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker. Batman's arch-nemesis has not always been such a menacing, sadistic fellow, however.

In Russia, the prison population is on the rise and so, too, are allegations of extreme abuse. Human rights groups and former prisoners say treatment of inmates is so bad that it's comparable to the Soviet Gulag.

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