Day: June 1, 2006

The Federal Election Commission has determined that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s 2000 Senate campaign violated federal campaign finance laws.

Previously, government-to-government relations were believed to control nearly exclusively how North America was developing. Instead, a wide network is influencing policy directions. The list now includes religious organizations, regional commercial interests, neighborhood associations and non-profit advocates.

Former Enron top executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling await sentencing Sept. 11 on assorted charges of fraud, conspiracy, lying to auditors and insider trading that, if the judge throws the book at them, could send them to prison for the rest of their lives.

The United States being hauled up before the U.N. Committee Against Torture in Geneva last month was a sharp reminder of how America’s reputation as a beacon of human rights has sagged in recent years.

After 24 years with Delta Air Lines, Nancy Stiefvater took an early-retirement package the summer of 2001 but thought she had “too much to offer” to retire or live out her life as a greeter at a big-box store.

The eight-year legal dispute between U.S. Reps. John Boehner and James A. McDermott has the elements and plot twists of the most intriguing kinds of Capitol Hill dramas, and it still has no final episode.

Three ethics watchdogs testified Wednesday that a Bush administration executive left out important details of his relationship with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, including information about a weeklong golf excursion to Scotland and England arranged by the Republican influence-peddler.

The two cities targeted in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will receive far less counterterrorism money this year in what the Homeland Security Department described Wednesday as an effort to spread funding to other communities facing threats.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady widely expected to run for her husband’s old job in the White House, on Wednesday won the enthusiastic endorsement of New York Democrats in her bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate in November.