Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said that the U.S.-China relationship is “growing in a positive direction,” but that he would press for a more open Chinese economy.
Federal agents have raided the offices of an influential lobbying firm in Albany as part of the latest investigation connected to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal in Washington.
Congress is pressing Bush administration officials on a still-unanswered question: How did the United States come to embrace harsh interrogation methods it had always shunned?
Federal health officials said that they hoped to announce soon the source of a salmonella outbreak associated with raw tomatoes that has sickened at least 167 people in 17 states.
President Bush won European support on Tuesday for a proposal to consider tougher sanctions as a lever against Tehran’s nuclear program.
Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a proposal to tax the windfall profits of the nation’s biggest oil companies and eliminate some of the firms’ tax breaks, rejecting Democratic claims that the measure would help assuage consumer anger over $4-a-gallon gasoline.
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Sen. John McCain’s camp is attempting to convince Americans that their taxes will increase dramatically with Sen. Barack Obama as president. The presumptive Republican nominee has repeatedly said that Obama would enact “the largest tax increase since the Second World War.” A surrogate for McCain,…
Sen. Barack Obama’s vice presidential search team spent another day on Capitol Hill — and left the impression that the No. 2 spot is wide open.
Having failed in efforts to impeach Vice President Cheney, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) escalated his battle against the administration this week by introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush, using a parliamentary maneuver that will probably force a vote today.