After a long delay imposed by a federal court, the Justice Department's inspector general has released an unclassified version of a report [Related PDF] examining the FBI's handling of intelligence information, which details events leading up to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Inspector General Glenn Fine had completed the report titled "The Handling of Intelligence Information Prior to the September 11 Attacks" in July 2004 at the request of FBI Director Robert Mueller and Congress. Fine provided a classified version to the FBI, the CIA, Congress, the National Security Agency, and the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 commission relied on the report in reaching its own conclusions.
Thanks to a relatively robust economic recovery, the federal budget deficit is expected to be smaller than expected this year—around $350 billion, down from earlier projections of $427 billion.
It's hard to believe, but the man who painted the former first couple's official White House portraits says it's true: Neither Bill Clinton nor Hillary Rodham Clinton bullied him into making them look good. In fact, says artist Simmie Knox, he made sure to put that big smile on Sen. Clinton's face in her painting...
AP - Key Senate Republicans privately reviewed suggestions Thursday for raising the Social Security retirement age while limiting future benefits for upper-wage earners, officials said, as they sought momentum for legislation atop President Bush's second-term domestic agenda.
AP - Bolivia's high court chief rose to the presidency late Thursday after two congressional leaders refused to assume the post, clearing the way for possible early elections that officials hope with curb violent protests.
AP - President Bush, facing efforts by some in his own party to scale back the post-Sept. 11 Patriot Act, says it has made America safer and should be made permanent.
Nine million people with arthritis are left in a dilemma as ibuprofen, a painkiller which was considered one of the safest drugs on the market, is linked with heart attacks.
Three more suspects have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of an 18-year-old Alabama student in Aruba, bringing to five the number of men in custody, a prosecutor said today. The three men just arrested were the last people seen with Natalee Holloway as she left a nightclub about 1:30 a.m. May 30, according to the chief prosecutor.
Amie Zyla, a teenage girl who was abused as a child and convinced state lawmakers to make public the records of juvenile sex offenders, today urged Congress to create similar federal regulation. Zyla began her fight when she learned the 14-year-old convicted of assaulting her was -- as a 23-year-old -- a suspect in a similar crime. "It still hurts me deeply to hear that another kid is experiencing the same kind of pain that I did at 8 years old," she said.
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