President George W. Bush ignored a memo, written almost eight months before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, that warned the White House al Qaeda represented a threat throughout the Islamic world.
It’s not too late to get a flu shot if you can find one, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
President Bush on Thursday named his Yale classmate and former business partner in the Texas Rangers baseball team to be a member of the board of directors of the New York Committee on the Olympic Games.
Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.
House Democratic leaders on Thursday sought removal of two recently appointed
Republicans from the ethics committee, questioning whether their judgment would
be influenced by contributions to Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s legal defense
fund.
A Democratic senator is delaying the nomination of Michael Chertoff as Homeland Security secretary to protest the Justice Department’s refusal to provide a secret FBI memo on terror suspect interrogations.
A Halliburton Co. shipment of radioactive material that landed in New York in October was lost en route to Texas, and was not found until Wednesday, when it turned up in Boston.
The House voted Thursday to make states verify that they’re not giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants and to grant judges broader power to deport political asylum seekers they suspect may be terrorists.
The public’s confidence in President Bush’s job performance and the nation’s direction has slipped in the opening weeks of his second term, particularly among people 50 and older, according to an Associated Press poll.
In a major victory for President Bush and corporations, the Senate on Thursday voted 72-26 for a bipartisan bill that would restrict multimillion-dollar national class-action lawsuits by forcing them out of state courts and before federal judges.