Bush takes his case to the nation tonight
On national TV, the president will try to convince voters they can have it all: lower taxes, lower public debt and bigger budgets for popular programs.
2nd pardons witness will invoke the Fifth
The former Democratic Party finance official is a friend of Denise Rich.
Arab states back Powell's new-look sanctions on Iraq
The plan would allow more commerce with Iraq but impose tough penalties for aiding its military.
Children adopted abroad become citizens today
No paperwork. No two-year wait. Thanks to changes in the law, more than 75,000 such children are automatically citizens.
Coming to U.S. roads: more Mexican trucks
If you haven't read a scary book lately, you should really pick up a copy of Public Citizen's 29-page report on whether to allow Mexican cargo trucks to roam freely on American highways.
Colombia rights record slammed
Colombian President Andres Pastrana's timing was not good.
Land case arguments bring court no closer to decision
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has struggled for years over how and when to apply the Fifth Amendment's injunction that private property shall not be "taken for public use without just compensation," and an argument on Monday over whether an environmental regulation that barred development on 18 acres of oceanfront wetlands in Rhode Island amounted to a "taking" did not necessarily bring the justices any closer to a clear answer.
Washington in brief
Medical privacy rules are postponed
The nation in brief
Media seek to learn why teens arrested in college killings
The world in brief
Report: Torpedo doomed 'Kursk'
