Day: April 11, 2008

The unity exhibited Thursday by House Democrats in stalling a White House-sponsored trade pact with Colombia masks deep party divisions on the issue.

The testimony, by the associate administrator for safety of the F.A.A., was the most explicit statement so far that the epidemic of aircraft groundings had genuine safety roots.

The United States Forest Service has released new regulations for managing the country’s 155 national forests, after a federal judge struck down an earlier set of rules.

Corporations, unions and other interests spent a record $2.79 billion in 2007 on lobbying Washington officials, said a study from a watchdog group. The group, the Center for Responsive Politics, said spending in 2007 eclipsed the previous record in 2006 by $200 million, with health care interests, Wall Street, the real estate industry and insurers among the biggest spenders.

A Sudanese man who is being detained at Guantánamo Bay has refused to accept any American lawyer, saying he would boycott court proceedings.

The forum is intended to help defuse years of criticism from vaccine skeptics that the government is hiding what it knows about vaccine safety or failing to investigate the issue diligently.

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey faced questioning on a 2001 memorandum that suggested the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches did not apply to the military when it operated on American soil.

A House panel told a federal judge that President Bush’s refusal to let two confidants give information to Congress about fired federal prosecutors represents the most expansive view of executive privilege since Watergate.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and North Korea may have found a way to break their deadlock over the long overdue North Korean declaration of its nuclear activities, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

President Bush wants his envoys to encourage Saudi Arabia to increase its overall support for Iraq, and other Middle Eastern countries to reopen their embassies in Baghdad.