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S-300 is a state of the art Russian anti-aircraft defense system. Russia denies selling Iran the system. Israeli defense has said Iran are to receive it in '08, the Pentagon thinks they will get it, but not this year. Only then it gets more complex....

Neocons still run things. Dick Cheney leads them, and he claims Iran needs to be addressed (along with Syria) as the next phase of "the road map to war."

Dozens of war ships heading for the Persian gulf. Is this the beginning of the Iran war?

17-year-old Eric Martinez, a student at Aldine High School in a poor neighborhood of Houston. He responded to an Army recruitment pitch, called the delayed enlistment program. But then, as 17-year-olds are wont to do, Eric changed his mind. When the recr

Even with the recent drop in oil prices, experts are predicting that heating bills this winter will far exceed those of last year.

Long controversial for its aggressive evangelism aimed at those with a troubled past -- ex-convicts and drug addicts among them -- the Anaheim-based Christian motorcycle gang known as the Set Free Soldiers found itself in deeper trouble Wednesday

Speaking on China's turf the very day it hosted the opening of the Olympic Games, President Bush on Friday prodded the communist country to lessen repression and ``let people say what they think.''

The e-mail messages of Bruce E. Ivins provide a narrative of his paranoid episodes, dating to 2000.

Turns out, the perfect 10 wasn't so perfect. At least not in the minds of international gymnastics officials. Four years after a series of scoring errors marred the competition at the Athens Olympics, fans who tune into gymnastics once every four years ar

CAPE CANAVERAL — The ashes of two American space icons were scattered over the Pacific instead of in orbit during the loss of a third SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket this weekend.