Documents reveal that when C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding and other techniques, they were required to keep records of each method used, its duration and the names of everyone present.
Former lawmakers were named to four of the six seats on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, a new independent panel that will review ethics complaints against House members.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it intended to ban the use of the pesticide carbofuran, citing its harmful effects on children and the environment.
The operator of a collapsed Utah mine violated safety protocols by cutting coal pillars that should have been left standing to prevent cave-ins.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year for the agency’s campaign security job….
The department’s internal watchdog will investigate allegations that officials did nothing to stop a deal that undermined both American policy and the Iraqi central government.
The House voted Thursday to triple financing to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, giving new life to a program credited with saving or prolonging millions of lives in Africa alone.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Both Israelis and Palestinians came away from Barack Obama’s visit to the Holy Land with the feeling he would do more for Mideast peace than President Bush has. But neither side seemed fully convinced that Obama would have their interests at heart….
PERTH, Australia (AP) — If Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is worried that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is complicating the Bush administration’s foreign policy with freelance campaign diplomacy, she isn’t showing it….
The Senate is investigating whether insurance companies are forcing able-bodied people to apply for Social Security disability benefits.