Trent Lott

The White House said Wednesday it was easing its new effort to restrict information available to Congress on military operations, investigations and law enforcement. One day after members of the House and Senate from both parties objected to...

WASHINGTON - Investigators said that they have "substantive leads" about the origins of the anthrax that was mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and triggered a partial shutdown yesterday on Capitol Hill. Congressional leaders closed the House...

American and British forces launched air and missile assaults against Afghanistan on Sunday, the first in a series of long-anticipated strikes against the terrorists believed to be responsible for last month's attacks on the World Trade Center and the...

Sometime in the next few weeks President Bush is expected to make a decision that will go well beyond the normal run of politics, that will go to the future of science and medicine. Bush will decide whether to permit the federal government to pay for...

WASHINGTON - President Bush narrowed his request to Congress yesterday for authorization to launch a unilateral attack against Iraq, offering to impose some limits on a broad resolution he proposed last week. The new language was an effort to forge a...

House Majority Leader Dick Armey erupted Tuesday after finding himself labeled part of "the Republican Taliban" in a U.S. News & World Report gossip item. The item said some Democratic lawmakers have taken to referring that way to Armey (R-Texas), Senate...

The White House said Wednesday it was easing its new effort to restrict information available to Congress on military operations, investigations and law enforcement. One day after members of the House and Senate from both parties objected to limitations...

WASHINGTON - In a sun-drenched White House Rose Garden, key congressional Republicans and Democrats gathered around President Bush on Wednesday to show what Bush called "our unity of purpose" in confronting the threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein....

WASHINGTON - President Bush will present his case against Iraq in a speech to the nation tonight as top Democrats predict strong support for a congressional resolution backing the use of force against Saddam Hussein. After a weekend in Maine, the...

UNITED NATIONS - The leaders of U.N. weapons inspections teams, responding to intense pressure from the United States and Britain, said yesterday that they would delay their return to Iraq until the Security Council gives them new instructions to guide...

House Republicans and administration officials launched a major lobbying and publicity push in favor of their aviation security bill Thursday, hoping to head off the creation of a federal baggage-screening system. Congressional Democrats have pressed for...

1984: Gregory Johnson arrested in Dallas for burning the U.S. flag in a protest against nuclear war at the Republican National Convention. Johnson was convicted and sentenced to a year in jail and fined $2,000 for violating a Texas law against...