Day: April 17, 2009

As the White House released secret memos describing interrogation techniques, it said it would not prosecute those who carried out the practices.

The defense secretary’s aggressive campaign for the Pentagon budget has left many in the military contracting industry and Congress taken aback.

President Obama highlighted his ambition for the development of high-speed passenger rail lines in at least 10 regions.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came to Haiti with about $300 million in American aid, six months after the country was devastated by storms and food riots.

Senator Dianne Feinstein called for the hearing after new reports that the National Security Agency went beyond its authorization.

In April 1865, an anonymous diarist sketched New York City’s storefront shrines to honor the assassinated president. The drawings are seen here for the first time.

Three political power brokers who were indicted along with former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich pleaded not guilty in federal court to accusations that they were part of the “Blagojevich enterprise,” a web of corruption that prosecutors have described as a scheme to enrich the participants at the state’s expense.

The State Senate defied Gov. Rick Perry and voted to accept $555 million in federal unemployment benefits.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., following a Justice Department tradition, is honoring some of his predecessors by hanging their official portraits in his office and adjoining conference room. In addition to his former boss, Janet Reno, and childhood hero, Robert F. Kennedy, Holder selected E…

Justice Department documents released yesterday offer the fullest account to date of Bush administration interrogation tactics, including previously unacknowledged strategies of slamming a prisoner into a wall and placing an insect near a detainee terrified of bugs.