Anti-Obscenity Groups Worry About Priorities of Gonzales
WASHINGTON - The new attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, has launched a wide-ranging review of federal law aimed at strengthening the hand of federal prosecutors who go after adult pornography that is...
View ArticleSilence Is Rule in Fight Over Social Security
WASHINGTON - While Senators Clinton and Schumer oppose President Bush's proposal to create individual retirement accounts using Social Security taxes, they are declining to put forward...
View ArticleNYC May Win a Chance to Try Out Vouchers
WASHINGTON - The nation's first federal school voucher experiment is still in its early days in Washington, but President Bush has already asked Congress for money to expand it to other cities, and New...
View ArticleGOP Delegation May Yet Balk at Bush's Plan
WASHINGTON - Several Republican congressmen from New York say they will not endorse President Bush's proposal to create individual retirement savings accounts until they see more details from the White...
View ArticleDemocrats Lob Counterthreat in Face of 'Nuclear Option'
WASHINGTON - Democrats yesterday threatened to shut down Senate business if Republicans deploy the so-called "nuclear option" in the war over judicial nominations, ending the ability of senators to...
View ArticleClinton Sponsors Bill To Fight Teenage Pregnancy
WASHINGTON - Senator Clinton, who has trumpeted her desire to seek "common ground" with the anti-abortion movement, planned to introduce legislation today to increase public funding for teaching...
View ArticleBipartisan Unity For Bill Supporting Workplace Religion
WASHINGTON - A bill that would place a heavier burden on employers to accommodate the religious practices of their employees has a good chance of becoming law this year, a bipartisan group of its...
View ArticleCongress Approves Bill To Open Way in Court For Bid To Save Schiavo
WASHINGTON President Bush early today signed emergency legislation allowing the parents of Theresa Schiavo, a severely brain-damaged Florida woman, to continue their battle to keep her alive. In a...
View ArticleJustices Hear Case On Religious Rights Of Prison Inmates
WASHINGTON - With Chief Justice Rehnquist back on the bench for the first time since undergoing treatment for thyroid cancer, the Supreme Court yesterday gave a mostly friendly reception to lawyers...
View ArticleParents Move to Appellate Court
WASHINGTON - Backed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman took her case to a federal appellate court in Atlanta yesterday after a district court judge in Tampa...
View ArticleCustody Battle Erupts Over a Dying Schiavo
WASHINGTON - The governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, yesterday sought to put a severely brain-damaged Florida woman into state protective custody after a federal appeals court declined to order that her...
View ArticleBush: 'Err on the Side of Life'
WASHINGTON - Facing the imminent death of their daughter from starvation and dehydration, the parents of a severely brain-injured Florida woman turned to the governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, in a...
View ArticleClash Over Foreign Law Due in High Court Today
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will consider today whether American courts are bound by the decisions of the International Court of Justice, a tribunal created by the United Nations and based in The...
View ArticleSupreme Court Weighs Role Of World Court
WASHINGTON - A last-minute decision by President Bush in February to comply with a decision of the International Court of Justice may save his administration from a broader ruling by the U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleJustices Appear Wary of File-sharing Copyright Lawsuit
WASHINGTON - Holding the makers of popular Internet file-sharing software responsible for copyright violations could have a chilling effect on the creation of the next generation of photocopiers and...
View ArticleLabor Plans Rally Against Private Accounts
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of labor union members were preparing to demonstrate today in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Battery Park to protest Wall Street support of President Bush's plan to create...
View ArticleWith Schiavo Dead, Bush Emphasizes 'Culture of Life'
WASHINGTON - The brain-damaged Florida woman at the center of a family feud that flared into a national firestorm died yesterday morning, nearly two weeks after a judge ordered her feeding tube...
View ArticleUSA Patriot Act Again Proves Dividing Force
WASHINGTON - Four years after the USA Patriot Act became law, the fiery debate surrounding it will be rekindled today as congressional lawmakers consider whether to renew provisions of the law that are...
View ArticleSenate Eying Charitable Scams
WASHINGTON - Reports of elaborate schemes by charities and nonprofit organizations to avoid paying taxes have senators redoubling calls for stronger regulation of the charitable sector. In one example,...
View ArticlePork-Barrel Outlays Surge But N.Y. Delegation Lags In Bringing Dollars Home
WASHINGTON - Despite mounting public debt, a costly war, and a spending freeze on many government programs, members of Congress have set aside more money this year for pet projects in their own...
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