Lawyers asked a federal judge in Washington Thursday to stop the Pentagon from trying Osama bin Laden's driver by military commission at Guantánamo Bay until a civilian court rules whether the war court is legal.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday that if he were elected president he would have his own version of President Bush's office of faith-based initiatives that would ''help set our national agenda'' and inject morality into policy debates about everything from AIDS to genocide.
WASHINGTON
Automakers charged Tuesday that proposed new mileage standards are too tough while consumer groups complained that they're too lenient.
A military judge Tuesday said he would explore whether reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed bullied his alleged co-conspirators into firing their lawyers, and next week will question each of the men accused of plotting the 2001 terrorist attacks.
WAR ON TERRORISM
The Pentagon filed death-penalty charges against a Saudi man at Guantánamo on Monday, alleging he engineered the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole off Aden, Yemen.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | DEMOCRATS
It helped launch the last Democratic president and has pushed and prodded every Democratic candidate since Bill Clinton to adopt its centrist positions on issues from budget discipline to welfare.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Kicking off a week of Independence Day campaigning, the two leading presidential candidates turned Monday toward themes of patriotism and military experience, with whispers of the 2004 Swift boat veterans' controversy.
CONFLICT IN IRAQ
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki grew up in this village of lemon and date orchards about half an hour from the southern Shiite Muslim holy city of Karbala. He attended school in the area, according to his official biography, and members of his extended family keep elegant villas here.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | DEMOCRATS
From the beginning, Barack Obama's special appeal was his vow to remain an idealistic outsider, courageous and optimistic, and never to shift his positions for political expediency, or become captive of the Inside-the-Beltway intelligentsia, or kiss up to special interests and big money donors.
No matter what happens to America's offshore military prison, this much is clear: This Navy base will remain open for years to come, and so probably will the McDonald's, the Taco Bell and the golf course.
This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks -- and it may soon become one again.
MISSOURI FLOOD
A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed Friday -- undone by a burrowing muskrat.
ED ARNO, 92
Ed Arno, whose sketchy, casually rendered cartoons on topics domestic and cosmic appeared regularly in The New Yorker for more than 30 years, died May 27. He was 92.
DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton embraced, praised each other and locked hands in unity Friday, hoping to convince legions of still-skeptical Clinton backers to rally around her one-time rival.
NORTH KOREA
North Korea handed over a long-overdue disclosure of its nuclear activity Thursday, and President Bush responded by easing some trade sanctions and pledging to take Pyongyang off a terrorism blacklist.
