Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s fundraising committee will shut down and pay a fine for improperly reporting financial activity, according to the U.S. agency that oversees money in politics.
The House, displaying a foreign affairs solidarity lacking on issues
like Iraq, voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support Israel in its
confrontation with Hezbollah guerrillas.
President George W. Bush’s carefully-crafted facade of Republican unity is coming apart at the seams as more and more of his former party faithful bail because of his disaster in Iraq.
By NORMAN DRAPER
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Far away from the halls of the U.S. Capitol, in laboratories crowded with petri dishes, incubators that mimic the environment of the human body and work stations where cells are nourished and manipulated, there is no debate about human embryonic stem cell research.
A large fight between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas broke out
Thursday evening on the Lebanese side of the border, the Israeli army said,
adding that its troops suffered casualties but did not elaborate. Hezbollah’s
Al-Manar television said three Israeli soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in
fighting.
By NEDRA PICKLER
After waiting 5 1/2 years to make good on a veto threat, President Bush used his first to underscore his politically risky stand against federal funding for the embryonic stem cell research that most Americans support.
By JIM ABRAMS
Legislation to bar federal courts from ruling on constitutional issues arising from the Pledge of Allegiance, including the "one nation, under God" reference, passed the House after lawmakers argued that the pledge is linked to the nation’s spiritual history.
While President George W. Bush is trying to suck up to the rabid right wing with his stem cell veto, he faces harsh criticism from conservatives on another front — his dismal record on foreign affairs.
In one of his campaign ads, GOP Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio uses altered images of the World Trade Center burning after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
By DEVLIN BARRETT
If Hollywood has a "Da Vinci Code," Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has cracked it.
Top stars such as Tom Hanks, Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson donated to the New York senator in recent months, generating the kind of cash usually associated with a major box office opening — or a potential presidential bid in 2008.