The Justice Department agreed Friday to pay biological-weapons expert Steven Hatfill a settlement valued at $5.85 million to drop a lawsuit he filed after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft named him a "person of interest" in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

June 28, 2008

Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will campaign together Friday, the first joint public event for the former rivals, as the senator from New York returns to the political scene after her defeat in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. ...more

June 21, 2008

President Bush sent lawmakers a $70 billion request Friday to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring, which would give the next president breathing room to make their own war policy. ...more

May 3, 2008

Congress is set to examine another round of proposals to help consumers and investors survive turmoil in the housing market. ...more

February 25, 2008

The spiraling growth of Medicare and the high cost of renewing President Bush's tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, housing and anti-poverty programs in the budget blueprint he will hand to lawmakers Monday. ...more

February 3, 2008

Norma McCulliss of Palm Harbor urges support for the Lupus Foundation of America. ...more

January 29, 2008

Scientists at a California company reported Thursday that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases. ...more

January 18, 2008

Bud Selig and Donald Fehr return to Capitol Hill today, three years after a theatrical hearing where the baseball commissioner and players' union head were chastised for what lawmakers called a lax steroids policy. ...more

January 15, 2008

President Bush threatened Thursday to cancel thousands of pet projects that Congress inserted into a massive spending bill before leaving town this week, a move that could provoke a fierce battle with lawmakers in both parties who jealously guard their ability to steer money to favored purposes. ...more

December 21, 2007

A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaida terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that "probably saved lives," but he now regards the tactic as torture. ...more

December 12, 2007