Day: July 12, 2009

Interviews show that a seemingly relentless string of professional and personal troubles led to Sarah Palin’s surprise resignation as governor of Alaska.

Senator Dianne Feinstein said on Sunday that the Bush administration may have broken the law if the C.I.A. concealed a covert spy program from Congress.

There is new pressure on the president to ramp up investigations of Bush-era security programs, despite the political risks.

Leading Republicans in the Senate said they would ask Judge Sonia Sotomayor to explain statements that they considered divisive.

The backlog of unprocessed claims for psychological and physical injuries is now over 400,000, up from 253,000 six years ago.

Representative Henry A. Waxman of California is philosophical about the opposition he faces from all sides as he tries to formulate health care legislation the White House will like.

An investment of $500,000 to $1 million was completed, which the political news Web site will use to expand its staff.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA withheld information from the U.S. Congress about a secret counterterrorism program on orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, a senator said on Sunday as Democrats called for an investigation.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee said they would ask Judge Sonia Sotomayor to explain past statements that they considered divisive.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Sunday criticized a plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for a $1 trillion healthcare overhaul and warned Congress was unlikely to meet President Barack Obama’s goal of passing the measure by August.