House Votes to Block Aid for Saudi Arabia

Lawmakers cheered as the House of Representatives voted on Thursday to strip financial assistance for Saudi Arabia from a foreign...

Philippine Troops Start Leaving Iraq, Allies Upset

The Philippines began pulling troops out of Iraq Friday to save the life of a Filipino hostage, ignoring calls from...

Martha Stewart Gets 5 Months in Prison

Martha Stewart, who built a catering company into a media empire, was sentenced on Friday to five months in prison...

Senate blocks ban on same-sex marriage

A bid by U.S. President George W. Bush to make opposition to gay marriage an election-year issue suffered a major...

Can the C.I.A. Really Be That Bad?

The Senate Intelligence Committee has had its say on the debacles leading up to the Iraq war, and America’s intelligence...

George Bush’s Crumbling Credibility

...The Supreme Court's rejections of the Bush administration's antiterrorism legal theories were in strong, plain language: "A state of war [if only there were a formal declaration!] is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens." Ouch...

Did White House pressure CIA on Iraq?

While all members of the Senate Intelligence Committee signed Friday’s report on the way the Central Intelligence Agency presented key...

Gay issues add twist to election

President Bush used his Saturday radio address to urge support for the amendment. He called marriage between a man and a woman "the basis of an orderly society" and urged lawmakers to protect it from "activist judges" by enshrining it in "the only law a court cannot overturn." Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards, say they will oppose the amendment if they are in town when the Senate votes.

Counterterrorism officials look to postpone elections

Counterterrorism officials are looking into the possibility of postponing the November presidential election if there is a terrorist attack at...

US is failing the intelligence test

George Tenet, whose seven-year run as head of the Central Intelligence Agency has come to a stormy end, leaves behind a crisis of confidence in American intelligence as the United States struggles with Muslim insurgents and the threat of catastrophic attacks.