U.S. News's Chitra Ragavan has learned that one day after Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified on Capitol Hill about the reasons why eight U.S. attorneys were fired summarily, a Justice Department spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse -- on travel abroad with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- sent an E-mail to McNulty saying Gonzales was unhappy with McNulty's testimony regarding why U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins of Arkansas had been let go. That E-mail is what is causing the most concern at the Justice Department among the 2,000 pages of documents about to be released on Capitol Hill in the next hour.
Every year sinus infections afflict about 37 million Americans, sending many of them to the doctor for relief. The problem, according to a new study, is that the prescribed relief may not be appropriate; despite the fact that most acute infections are caused by a virus, patients are overwhelmingly getting bacteria-killing antibiotics.
AP - Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged before dawn Tuesday, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination attempt against the former leader in the town of Dujail.
AP - Congress wants to know how the FBI illegally or improperly gathered telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while chasing terrorists.
AP - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales clung to his job as documents his Justice Department sent to Congress spelled out fears in the Bush administration that the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys might not stand up to scrutiny.
Internal Justice Department documents show seemingly conflicting views over some of the U.S. attorney firings and stiff resistance from at least a few of the prosecutors who were dismissed. Some 3,000 pages of documents are now in the hands of lawmakers, some of whom have called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.