After a broad overhaul was urged, officials often led by Vice President Dick Cheney were pitted against officials in the State and Defense departments.
A slew of economic readings Friday gave ammunition to those who think the economy is slowing enough to offset inflation and also to those who think inflation is at a level that argues for additional hikes in interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board.
When you're a CEO who does something stupid, here's the drill: Congress holds hearings. Lawmakers spank you silly. The press hyperventilates. Then you go back to work, while real prosecutors and market forces determine your fate.
AP - The U.S. military said a captured al-Qaida suspect and members of his cell were "in the final stages" of planning an attack on the Green Zone. An unprecedented curfew prompted by the arrest left millions of Baghdadis stranded at home on Saturday without supplies during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
AP - Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy. Hastert's office said aides referred the matter to the proper authorities last fall but they were only told the messages were "over-friendly."
AP - Israeli military officials said the army withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the cease-fire that ended a monthlong war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
Leading hospital trust admits that a 'hypervirulent' infection claimed the lives of at least 49 patients - and possibly as many as 78 people - in the space of nine months.
The top three Republicans in the House assailed Rep. Mark Foley Saturday over his e-mails to a teenage male page and said his resignation was not enough. Calling the incident "an obscene breach of trust," the congressmen released a statement saying, "[Foley's] immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system."
Chances of finding any survivors from the plane that crashed into the Amazon jungle are "practically non-existent," Brazil's airport authority chief said Saturday. The Gol Airlines jet with 155 people on board may have clipped a corporate jet in midair before plunging into dense rainforest.