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Newly disclosed e-mail messages from lobbyist Jack Abramoff show that he told an Indian tribe client that he was being pressured by U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-TX, for a contribution for a $25,000-a-table Republican fundraiser and that DeLay had personall
AP has finally taken note of the Leon County, FL hack test. The extraordinary test election which was entirely flipped last Tuesday as reported here previously.
U.S. Jewish leaders say they are increasingly worried that Christian conservatives want to turn America politically and culturally into a country that tolerates only their brand of Christianity.
32% of Americans believe that President Bush should be impeached and removed from office. Just 30% of Americans would be more likely to vote for a Congressional candidate who promised to work for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq, and I am also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities and we're doing
Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA doesn't have to pay a $10.1 billion damage award to smokers of ``light'' cigarettes who accused the company of misleading them about health risks, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled.
The State Department is pressing Congress to allocate an additional $50 million for peacekeepers in the troubled Darfur region in Sudan where the U.S. budget to pay for African Union troops is running out.
What do mandatory drug testing, cigarette taxes and methamphetamine restrictions have to do with protecting America from terrorists? As far as I can tell, the answer is "nothing." But they nevertheless appear in a 219-page proposed law to r
In testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating government response to the devastating storm, Blanco said "We did the best we could with the assets we had,"
This week, the Department of Defense reported that for the second month in a row, the service hit hardest by the recruiting shortfall - the Army - exceeded its monthly recruiting goals. Yet there has been hardly a peep about that success.
Cuba won't be allowed to send a team to next year's inaugural World Baseball Classic, the U.S. government told event organizers Wednesday.
The House will try to infuse new life into the nation's financially fragile, employer-based pension system with legislation requiring companies to meet their obligations to retirees while shielding the federal agency that takes over abandoned pen
Novak said that "I'd be amazed" if the president didn't know the source's identity and that the public should "bug the president [instead of me] as to whether he should reveal who the source is."
CIA prisoners in Europe were apparently abducted and moved between countries illegally, possibly with the aid of national secret services who did not tell their governments. [blame it on bad intelligence]
Groups opposing the provision say the public access to the records recently brought to light unclassified DIA files that included photographs of prisoner abuses in Iraq and alleged criminal misconduct by agency employees.
President Bush offered strong endorsements to two architects of the Iraq war, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, and said he was as close as ever to top political adviser Karl Rove despite his role in the CIA leak case.
"There is no other agency that I am aware of where the agency is totally exempt either from FOIA or FACA," said Pete Weitzel, coordinator of the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government. "That is a cause for major concern and shoul
Just two days into an experimental program that would place undercover air marshals in train, bus, ferry and other mass transit stations, the Transportation Security Administration said its test has been scaled back, owing to confusion over the rollo
One day before Iraq's historic parliamentary elections, US President George W. Bush defended his decision to invade that country and reserved the right to preemptive war in the future.
To some, the Pentagon's current efforts recall the Vietnam War era, when defense officials spied on anti-war groups and peace activists. Congressional hearings in the 1970s subsequently led to strict limits on the kinds of information that the mi
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin escalated a war of words with the US, telling Washington not to dictate to him what topics he can raise in the run-up to Canada's January 23 election.
Offered to help the United States. Instead, Turkistani was taken to a US military base in Afghanistan, where he was stripped, bound and thrown behind bars. Then strapped him into an airplane, fitted him with dark goggles and sent him to the U.S. dete
Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has come under fire from constituents for accepting nearly a quarter million dollars in campaign contributions from missile defense contractors over the past five years
Renewal of the anti-terrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act was approved overwhelmingly by the House of Representatives today, but the measure's prospects in the Senate remained uncertain.
The U.S. Army has approved a new set of interrogation techniques that could complicate talks between Congress and the White House on legislation that would ban the torture and inhumane treatment of detainees.
The House of Representatives gave overwhelming support to a measure requiring the humane treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody, piling pressure on President Bush to agree to put into law a ban on the torture of detainees.
Senate Republican leaders fought to save the Patriot Act renewal from sinking under the weight of opposition from a bipartisan group that says the measure would give the FBI a dangerous amount of power.
Republican House members disturbed that their former GOP colleague Randy "Duke" Cunningham will get to keep his pension despite pleading guilty to bribery want to pass a law to strip federal pensions from white-collar criminals.
Iraqis vote for a new government in the hope it will end decades of suffering, boost living standards and pave the way for U.S.-led troops to leave, nearly three years after they invaded.
The U.S. trade deficit widened unexpectedly to a record $68.9 billion despite a drop in the cost of imported oil, as the deficits with China, Canada, the European Union, Mexico and OPEC all hit records
