A computer video circulating the internet has rekindled fears that an asteroid will hit Earth and send mankind the way of the brontosaurus. Based on NASA projections, there is indeed a chance that such an asteroid will impact Earth in the next year.

It is 1 in 2,518,072

MILF recently burst into international news with the capture of a crashed American robotic spy plane. MILF, in this case, is the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Muslim rebel group using terrorism to bring about an independent Islamic state in the Philippines. The group has the misfortune of...

At a conference at CIA headquarters last Thursday, I asked the Director, General Michael Hayden, how he would like to alter public perception of his agency.

Without hesitation, he said, "More discretion on the part of journalists."

Ironic, I thought. I'd been under the impression that by habitually stonewalling...

If, like me, you regularly read the International Maritime Bureau's Weekly Piracy Report (a sort of naval police blotter), Sunday's news of the pirate speedboat attack on a cruise ship in the Gulf of Aden was no surprise. Over the past few years, there has been a seemingly exponential...

Most people know about Aldrich Ames, Jonathan Pollard and Robert Hanssen, but the list of Americans who have spied for other countries hardly ends there.

A recent Defense Department report, Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007, cites cases of 173 Americans arrested between 1947 and 2007 for passing...

If you're like me, at this time of year, your thoughts turn to people you've lost touch with and would like to see. Perhaps there's someone who, last you heard, was hiding in a subterranean network of caves in eastern Afghanistan. You'd go there and search for him, but you'd...

To make a long story into just a sentence: Historically, gamblers have proven better election forecaster than polls [see the Huffington Post's full story].

Below, watch bookmaker Betfair.com's betting odds change in real-time for the presidential race as well as those in six key states. There will be significant...

Recently I was in Kentucky, reporting on horseracing for Garden & Gun. A "whale" (bettor of thousands of dollars per day) I interviewed, Mike Maloney, successfully traded securities, options and futures, but chose to go to the track every day instead because it offered him a greater challenge. "There...

That's no typo.

Palo Alto-based systems analyst John Felleman, a student of electoral college quirks, has created a statistical scenario wherein a candidate is rejected by 78% of voters and still gains the Oval Office (see table 1, below).

"Granted, the vote distributions are a bit far-fetched," Felleman says....

Suppose I were one of those people with a voice in my head telling me either that Democrats or Republicans were evil and must be stopped. Or suppose, for some other reason, I believed it my patriotic duty to illegally alter election results on November 4. Here's one way, with...

The official answer: wardrobe malfunction.

I know: speculation raged after photographs revealed a cigarette-pack-like protuberance beneath President Bush's suit coat during the 2004 presidential debates.

He addressed it, however. "I'm embarrassed to say it's a poorly tailored shirt," he told Charlie Gibson on Good Morning America.

Might the bulge have...

The Jan. 24 Republican debate in Boca Raton got me curious.

As you may recall, moderator Tim Russert asked Mitt Romney, "Will you do for Social Security what Ronald Reagan did in 1983?" A disembodied whisper of "He raised taxes" was heard, followed immediately by Romney's response: "I'm not going...