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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's AIDS charity paid nearly a half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political inner circle, according to tax returns providing the first financial accounting of the presidential hopeful's
Thousands of people rallied on Friday to applaud "shock jock" Howard Stern, who after years of raging against government regulations on obscenity, broadcast his last show on public airwaves before heading to unregulated satellite radio.
On July 9, 2003, senior presidential adviser Karl Rove was well prepared as he returned a telephone call from columnist Robert Novak. On his desk were talking points and other briefing materials that then-White House Political Director Matt Schlapp a
House and Senate negotiators agreed to a measure that would enable the government to keep prisoners at Guantánamo Bay indefinitely bargaining with the Bush administration, Congressional negotiators eliminated an explicit ban on the use of torture der
President Bush has personally authorized a secretive eavesdropping program in the United States more than three dozen times since October 2001.
During the confirmation hearings of John Bolton as the US representative to the UN, it came to light that the NSA had freely revealed intercepted conversations of US citizens to Bolton while he served at the State Department
A jury yesterday convicted a former national Republican official of two telephone harassment charges for his role in a phone-jamming plot against New Hampshire Democrats on Election Day 2002.
Republican Sen. Conrad Burns is attempting to cut his ties to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, saying he will return about $150,000 in donations he received from Abramoff and the lobbyist's clients and associates.
Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, has died at 83. The pill finally worked Liddy.
Just as the dust from the storm over the wrongful kidnapping of a German citizen by the CIA was settling, a new intelligence scandal surfaced in Berlin when a senior government official said German agencies had interrogated prisoners at Guantanamo Ba
Bush singing his year in review. [Turn audio on.]
Civil rights groups said a teenager's free speech rights were violated when a suburban school district let the FBI question him for scribbling the initials "PLO" on a school binder 2 years ago. Violated their own policy by allowing the
President Bush acknowledged that he had secretly authorized the NSA to eavesdrop on international communications of Americans and other domestic residents with known links to al Qaeda. Bush added that members of Congress had been notified of it more
The Army met its recruiting goal for November by again accepting a high percentage of recruits who scored in the lowest category on the military’s aptitude tests, Pentagon officials said, raising renewed concerns that the quality of the all-volunteer
A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book" from the library.
In a 279-109 vote, the GOP-controlled House approved a resolution saying the chamber is committed "to achieving victory in Iraq" and that setting an "artificial timetable" would be "fundamentally inconsistent with achieving v
President Bush said that senators who are blocking renewal of the terrorism-fighting Patriot Act are acting irresponsibly and standing in the way of protecting the country from attack.
"The president has authorized NSA to fully use its resources consistent with US law and the Constitution to defend the US and its citizens," the official said, adding that congressional leaders have also been briefed more than a dozen ti
I'm remembering how the Defense Department aggressively infiltrated antiwar and civil rights groups during that era, spying and compiling files on more than 100,000 Americans — and how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI used every dirty trick in the
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter put the Bush administration on notice that his panel would hold hearings into a report that the NSA eavesdropped without warrants on people inside the US.
Concerned that other additions to the Army's Field Manual on interrogations – specifically, 10 new classified pages – may open a back door to condoning practices that McCain is trying to prohibit.
No definitive link has ever been discovered showing violent video games cause violent behavior. Even so, thousands of law-enforcement officers on our streets are being told otherwise. "violent media and video games are the largest single threat
The Copley News Service is suspending syndicated columnist Doug Bandow while it investigates allegations he accepted payments from Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to write between a dozen and 24 positive stories about Abramoff's clients.
Commentator Robert Novak, who hasn't been seen on CNN since swearing and storming off the set in August, will leave the network after 25 years and join Fox News Channel as a contributor next month.
In the 3-1/2 years since his arrest the government has repeatedly asserted unilateral power in a way that has undercut Mr. Padilla's ability to defend himself, and to help insulate government actions from the scrutiny of the courts
The United States urged Venezuela to tone down harsh attacks on President George W. Bush to improve frayed relations between Washington and a key oil supplier.
THE Pentagon has confirmed it will go ahead with plans to prosecute accused Australian terrorist David Hicks by military commission for "violations of the law of war" at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
House Republicans tried to close ranks Thursday on an immigration bill that some complained was not tough enough and others said was inadequate because it failed to include a guest worker program.
He was a minority of one four years ago, now add more than two dozen senators to Feingold's side, including the leaders of his party and some of the chamber's most conservative Republicans, and the balance of power shifts.
Convincing Muslims and Sunni Iraqis, the backbone of the rebellion in Iraq, that US troops will return home sooner, not later, is prerequisite to dismantling the terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
