U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER
A coalition of Texas community leaders sued the Department of Homeland Security on Friday over the construction of a controversial fence on the Southwest border, saying the agency trampled the rights of property owners in acquiring land for the project.
MILITARY
To hear retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez explain it, the mistakes of the Iraq war that happened while he was in command there weren't his fault. Not Abu Ghraib, not the birth of the insurgency, not the decision to let rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr survive.
REPUBLICANS
When Pope Benedict XVI visited the nation's capital last month, Sen. Sam Brownback did a little preaching to Catholics himself -- the gospel according to John McCain.
A military commissions judge Friday postponed the scheduled trial of Osama bin Laden's driver until after the U.S. Supreme Court has decided another key detainee case.
President Bush took the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary on Thursday to compare his political opponents to Nazi appeasers and brand them as too willing to negotiate with terrorists, remarks that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama reacted to instantly as an attack upon him.
California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry -- a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement Thursday that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony.
In an already charged election year when U.S. policy toward Cuba remains a key campaign issue, a prominent exile group is calling on the Bush administration to change how it operates Cuba democracy programs so that millions of dollars can reach dissidents on the island.
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Endorsing Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president, former Sen. John Edwards on Wednesday threw his stature as a champion of the working class behind a one-time rival whose failure to appeal to that bloc has been a political weakness.
WILDLIFE
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Wednesday that the agency will list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a decision that could cast the bears as the enduring symbol of the effects of global warming.
POST-DISASTER HOUSING
Post-Katrina trailers got awful reviews, but the manufactured replacement housing that's going up in Mississippi now is drawing raves.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | ENERGY
None of the remedies that leading politicians are offering to ease the gasoline-price spike are likely to help consumers anytime soon.
U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement announced his resignation Wednesday, ending a seven-year run of arguing the Bush administration's terrorism and detention cases and other controversial legal positions before the Supreme Court.
The chief judge of the Guantánamo Bay war court has set June 5 for the first court appearances of reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton easily won the West Virginia primary on Tuesday, hoping against hope that it was more than a hollow victory, since she has little prospect of slowing Barack Obama's march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
GUANTANAMO BAY
Leading legal defense groups Tuesday accused the Pentagon of foot-dragging on security clearances that would let civilian lawyers help their military counterparts defend the alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantánamo.
