The United States is “stuck” with its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba because it cannot figure out what to do with suspects who cannot be charged or set loose, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

Gates told lawmakers that he still believes the prison should be closed, but has not found a way to do it.

“Senator, I think the brutally frank answer is we’re stuck. And we’re stuck in several ways,” he told Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Continue Reading »

A U.S. Navy plane apparently accidentally crossed into Venezuela’s airspace Saturday night, triggering protests from that country, according to a U.S. defense official familiar with the report.

The S-3 Viking aircraft, based in Curacao, was on a training mission in international airspace near Los Roques Island, Venezuela, and experienced “intermittent navigational problems,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Continue Reading »

Microsoft Corp. has blamed computer makers for some of the problems users have encountered after updating to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), according to a company support document.

The document also showed that the “endless reboot” problem some users have reported after installing XP SP3 was neither unanticipated or new; Microsoft updated the document on the same day it released the service pack, and the company indicated that the same thing happened nearly four years ago when it rolled out Windows XP SP2. Continue Reading »

As of December 2006 there wer 2,258,983 prisoners in Federal or State prisons or in local jails. Approximately 2% of those prisoners were in for check fraud. None of those prisoners could hold a checkbook to Chrles Ray Fuller though. Fuller attempted to cash a check at a Forth Worth Bank for $360 billion.

Apparently the cashier was suspicious of the check amount and called the check’s original owner. Fuller’s girlfriend’s mother stated she knew nothing of the check and that Fuller was not authorized to take or cash the check. It seems that she didn’t bother telling the bank employee whether her account balance could cover the amount. Continue Reading »

WASHINGTON - The chief executive of U.S. drug maker Baxter International Inc. said Tuesday its blood thinner heparin produced in China, which has been linked to dozens of deaths, appears to have been deliberately contaminated.

“We are greatly concerned that our heparin products appears to be the target of a deliberate adulteration scheme,” Baxter Chief Executive Robert Parkinson said in prepared remarks to a U.S. Congressional panel. Continue Reading »

It wasn’t a video game that the software programmer Hans Reiser was playing. This wasn’t like playing Halo or Grand Theft Auto, it wasn’t something that would be turned off after it happened, this was first-degree murder and the end of the story wouldn’t be able to be reset.

A software programmer was convicted Monday of first-degree murder for killing his estranged wife, whom he contends may be living elsewhere. Continue Reading »

Frequent masturbation may help men cut their risk of contracting prostate cancer, Australian researchers have found. It is believed that carcinogens may build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly, BBC News reported on Wednesday. The researchers surveyed more than 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer, and 1,250 men who had not. They found that men who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to get cancer. Men who ejaculated more than five times each week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer. Continue Reading »

China has been slowly trying to kill Americans for a great while now. From the Aquadots to pajamas and thousands of other products, China has been waging a war against America in a slow and steady manner.

What’s next you ask? Easy, heparin! Continue Reading »

CHICAGO (WLS) — A violent weekend in Chicago has left at least 31 people shot since Friday afternoon, and six of the shooting victims have died.

A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old were among those wounded. Authorities say the boys were shot about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the 5300 block of West Madison. One of them was hurt critically.
As crews were responding to that shooting, a third person was shot, just around the corner. And just 40 minutes earlier, three men were shot, less than a block away. Continue Reading »

Camarillo, California (AP) - A survey says the national average price for regular gasoline rose nearly 16 cents in the past two weeks.

The average price of self-serve regular gasoline on Friday was $3.47 a gallon, mid-grade was at $3.59 and premium was $3.70. That’s all according to the Lundberg Survey of 7,000 stations nationwide released Sunday. Continue Reading »