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The day after his inauguration, President Obama promised a new era of “openness in government.” But the reality has not matched the president’s rhetoric. We, presidents of two of the nation’s largest journalism organizations, and many of our thousands of members, have found little openness since Obama took office. If anything, the administration has gone in the opposite direction: imposing restrictions on reporters’ newsgathering that exceed even the constraints put in place by President George W. Bush. Democrats criticized the Bush administration for not making decisions based on the best science. But the Obama administration now muzzles scientists and experts...

There is so much misinformation and grossly misleading talk about what will happen if the federal debt ceiling isn’t increased that, before any more unnecessary bloodcurdling language is used that increases everyone’s anxiety, it’s worth taking a few steps back from the edge. First, not raising the current federal debt limit absolutely will not immediately shut down the federal government. In fact, the federal debt ceiling has virtually nothing to do with whether federal departments and agencies continue to operate. Borrowing is just one of the ways the federal government finances its activities, and not increasing the debt ceiling only...

The most popular dinosaur is probably Tyrannosaurus rex, a Latin term that loosely translates as “king lizard.” Based on evolutionary assumptions, scientists have long held that these dinosaurs lived for “only” 3 million years, approximately 68 to 65 million years ago. A fossil looking remarkably like a small version of T. rex, however, has been located in a much lower rock layer.[1] Using the evolutionary dates assigned to the relevant strata, this adds 60 million years to the T. rex timeline. If the evolutionary interpretation was this wrong about one creature, can it be trusted on the rest of the...

TEHRAN -- The prime suspect in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires said that the Zionists had offered him millions of dollars to declare that Iran had been involved in the case. "They also offered me millions of dollars to declare that a few innocent Lebanese detained in Paraguay were involved in the case," Carlos Tejdin told the Argentine-based ****Clarin**** newspaper. Tejdin said that Robin Braha, the former chairman of the Union of Jewish Organizations in Argentina (DAYA) and a direct liaison of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, had met him several times during his...

PESHAWER, June 19 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters killed forty soldiers from the U.S. special forces in southeast Afghanistan near the Pakistani borders, a Pakistani newspaper reported Wednesday, June 19. In response, U.S. forces attacked the entire area, said the Urdu-language Mashreq paper. Besides the 40 U.S. soldiers, 10 of the Afghan-U.S. allies were also killed during the attack which the fighters carried out at the American forces. U.S. forces were on their way to carry out an inspection and survey mission on the Birmil area in the province of Khost. The news was not confirmed...