The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee is calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA misled her and others about waterboarding a massive attack on the nation’s intelligence community.
However, Bond said he was not with Pelosi when the spy agency briefed her.
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Sri Lankan forces battled Friday to take complete control of the country’s coastline and surround the reeling Tamil Tigers in a final push to destroy the rebel group and end the country’s civil war, the military said.
The government has forced the rebels out of the de facto state they once controlled in the north and [...]
U.S. House Democrats are weighing anexpansion of the governments role in health care that wouldinclude a mandate that employers provide coverage to all full-time workers or pay a percentage of their payroll to theTreasury.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, saidyesterday that while tax increases to finance a health-careoverhaul are under review, it may be [...]
President Barack Obama has largelysidestepped social controversies such as abortion and gayrights. Thats about to change.
Such disputes, which raged during the 16 years of Obamastwo predecessors, had been marginalized by the economic crisisand defused by the new presidents popularity and the publicsdisaffection with Republicans who had made them a mainstay oftheir electoral pitches.
President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the Census Bureau is ruling out the use of statistical sampling in the 2010 head count, seeking to allay GOP concerns that he might be prone to put politics over science.
Groves, 60, also said adjustments won’t be used in 2010 to redraw congressional boundaries, because there is simply no [...]
Former top Bush White House aide Karl Rove, who has said he will cooperate with an investigation into the firing of U.S. attorneys, is scheduled to be interviewed by a special prosecutor, a lawyer familiar with the probe says.
An attorney told The Associated Press that Rove will be questioned on Friday by the special prosecutor, [...]
Relations between President Barack Obama and U.S. corporate leaders have grown tense in recent weeks, with business groups bristling over his sharp rebukes of lenders and multinational companies in particular.
On Thursday in New Mexico, Obama chastised the credit card industry for sharply raising interest rates or fees with hard-to-find notice.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed “grave concern” on Thursday over reports that Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with violating her house arrest and could face new jail time.
She said Ban believes Suu Kyi “is an essential partner for dialogue in Myanmars national reconciliation and calls on the government not to take [...]
The European Union on Thursday offered a helping hand to Central and South American countries in their fight against drug trafficking and other crime in a bid to boost security in the region.
European ministers discussed issues ranging from crime to development cooperation with counterparts from Mexico, Chile, Central American countries associated in the System for [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama will announce on Friday Dr. Thomas Frieden, the New York City health commissioner, as his choice to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The New York Times reported.
“He led the crusade to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, pushed to make HIV testing a routine part of medical exams, [...]
