Nearly 60 House Democrats on Saturday urged the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to examine whether top Bush administration officials may have committed crimes in authorizing the use of harsh interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists. ...more

June 8, 2008

The worst of the credit crisis may have passed, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday, while acknowledging that rising gas prices will blunt the effect of 130 million economic stimulus checks. He ruled out a second stimulus package for now. ...more

May 8, 2008

Valerie Plame Wilson wants people to know she wasn't just some pencil pusher at the CIA when high-ranking Bush administration officials outed her to Washington journalists. ...more

February 13, 2008

An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. ...more

January 8, 2008

What would you do if you learned that Bush Administration officials wanted to round up thousands of Americans and throw them into concentration camps? ...more

January 3, 2008

Weeks before it is to begin, an ambitious U.S. aid plan to counter militancy in Pakistan's tribal areas is threatened by important unresolved questions about who will monitor the money and whether it could fall into the wrong hands, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials and analysts familiar with the plan. ...more

December 25, 2007

At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the CIA between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two al-Qaida operatives, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials. ...more

December 19, 2007

The starkly different view of Iran's nuclear program that emerged from U.S. spy agencies this week was the product of a surge in clandestine intelligence-gathering in Iran as well as radical changes in the way the intelligence community analyzes information. ...more

December 5, 2007

Congress left for its Thanksgiving recess Friday without passing a bill to pay for the war in Iraq after the Senate deadlocked over a Democratic demand that the measure include a call for most troops to be withdrawn by the end of next year. ...more

November 17, 2007

WASHINGTON - Reducing the water flow into Florida's Apalachicola River and other areas as a way to keep drought-stricken Atlanta's water supply from slipping lower likely will kill some mussels and Gulf sturgeon, a new report says. But the "biological opinion" announced this morning by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service concludes the U.S. Corps of Engineers' water-flow reduction plan will not jeopardize the existence of federally protected mussels as a species or Gulf sturgeon. ...more

November 16, 2007