Word that the White House wants to keep Harriet E. Miers from appearing before Congress came after another former aide refused to answer questions today.
Investigators set up a bogus company and obtained a license that would have allowed them to buy the radioactive materials needed for a so-called dirty bomb.
When uninsured adults with chronic illnesses became eligible for Medicare, they reported greater medical expenses than people who previously had insurance.
Despite its spruced-up look and high-tech improvements, the White House briefing room, which reopens Wednesday morning, isn't returning to its glory days anytime soon.
Over four summers, Akiko Busch, 53, of Unionville, N.Y., swam across nine rivers, including the Hudson and Delaware in New York; the Connecticut in Massachusetts; the Susquehanna, Cheat, and Monongahela in Pennsylvania; the Mississippi and Current in Missouri; and the Ohio in Kentucky. Her crossings began in August 2001, a few weeks before the 9/11 attacks, when she impulsively tackled the Hudson at a half-mile crossing near New Hamburg, N.Y. As she saw the world grow ever more divided, pondered middle age, and encountered fears about the health of America's rivers, the swims took on enough significance for her to pen a book, released July 10, about the experience. U.S. News spoke to Busch about "Nine Ways to Cross a River: Midstream Reflections on Swimming and Getting There From Here."
What is eBay, anyway? That is the question investors are asking after the world's largest online auction site announced last month that it was launching its own free classified advertising site in the United States—daring to tread into territory that craigslist has dominated for years.
AP - U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded al-Qaida has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, The Associated Press has learned.
AP - Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
AP - Nervous Senate Republicans beseeched the White House without apparent success Wednesday for a quick change in course on Iraq as congressional Democrats insisted on high-profile votes calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by spring.
Lady Bird Johnson, the woman who became first lady just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, has died, a family spokesman told CNN. She was 94. She married Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th U.S. president, in 1934 and proved herself to be the quintessential political wife.
A woman hatched a bizarre plot to fund the murder of her father with proceeds from a bank robbery using a co-conspirator posing as a hostage and wearing a bomb, federal authorities announced today. It ended with the co-conspirator's grisly death. The dead man's brother angrily denied the official version of events.
Pakistani forces were almost finished combing through the many rooms of the Red Mosque complex Wednesday in search of unexploded grenades and anti-government militants still inside the compound, an army spokesman said.
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