A former aide said that Speaker J. Dennis Hastert’s office knew about reports of “inappropriate behavior” by Representative Mark Foley far earlier than Mr. Hastert’s office has acknowledged.
Carleton S. Fiorina, once the most prominent female executive in the United States, ordered the first of a series of investigations in January 2005, she says in a long-anticipated book.
U.S. News sat down this week with Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chair and former presidential hopeful, to discuss the Mark Foley scandal, Dean's controversial strategy to put up serious Democratic candidates in all 50 states, and his expectations for the 2006 (and 2008) elections.
With less than five weeks to go before Election Day, the Mark Foley scandal is dramatically reshaping the political world, spreading worry among GOP leaders not just in Washington but across the country over whether the party can win in November.
AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an election-season visit to Iraq, said Thursday she will tell its leaders they have limited time to settle political differences spurring sectarian and insurgent violence.
AP - The House Ethics Committee met Thursday to investigate the unfolding scandal over Rep. Mark Foley's come-ons to congressional pages and accusations even by some Republicans that House speaker Dennis Hastert failed to protect the teens.
AP - The president of South Korea reportedly ordered his government to send a "grave warning" to North Korea about the consequences of a nuclear test, and Russia said it was trying to dissuade Pyongyang from conducting it.
The FBI will interview Kirk Fordham, a day after he resigned as chief of staff to a top Republican lawmaker saying he had tried to warn top House leaders about Rep. Mark Foley's contacts with teenage pages before 2005, Fordham's attorney told CNN.
The U.S. envoy to stalled North Korea nuclear talks says the United States will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea and has warned Pyongyang not to test a nuclear weapon.
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