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Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Michael Powell, chief regulator of the nation's airwaves and telecommunications who was at the center of controversies over his attempts to deregulate media ownership and [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ When America's first lady puts her arm around you, what exactly is the right response, protocol-wise? That delicate question arose during the official photograph President [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ In early 2001, Sen. John Kerry phoned veteran political columnist Martin Nolan and invited him to breakfast at San Francisco's posh Fairmont Hotel. Their meeting [...]

Byline: Frank James and Rick Pearson LAS VEGAS _ Sen. John Kerry questioned President Bush's truthfulness on the Iraq war Thursday, accusing the president of misleading the nation's warriors about [...]

Byline: Frank James NANTUCKET, Mass. _ Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday discarded the long-standing tradition for presidential candidates to lay low the week of the opposing party's convention by scheduling [...]

Byline: Rick Pearson and Frank James CRAWFORD, Texas _ John Kerry's campaign lashed out at President Bush's military record Sunday, contending the nation would not have rushed ill-equipped troops to [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ President Bush's campaign is offering up a new reason to vote against his Democratic challenger _ that Sen. John Kerry is too gloomy for the [...]

Byline: Frank James GREEN BAY, Wis. _ On the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, Sen. John Kerry spent Friday in the company of veterans and active duty armed service [...]

Byline: Frank James LAS VEGAS _ At a gathering of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters where he received the union's endorsement, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry promised Sunday that [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Congressional officials said Wednesday they planned to start reopening Senate office buildings Thursday as Capitol Hill tried to return to normal following the discovery of [...]

Byline: Frank James VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. _ John Allen Muhammad, one of two individuals charged in last year's deadly sniper shootings that traumatized the Washington, D.C., area, was convicted of [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ More a quarter of top brokerage firms have let mutual fund customers illegally trade shares after hours, and nearly a third had disclosed their portfolio [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ On the eve of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush called Wednesday for a controversial expansion of federal law-enforcement powers [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ The nation's media companies should plan to work together in the event of another large-scale terrorist attack to ensure that the public receives vital emergency [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ On Sept. 11, police in helicopters hovering above New York's World Trade Center towers radioed warnings that the buildings appeared in danger of collapsing. But [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Attorney General John Ashcroft has decided to claim the sweeping power to keep undocumented immigrants in custody indefinitely for national security reasons even if immigration [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ As the Homeland Security Department called on Americans to buy duct tape and plastic sheeting to seal windows and doors in the event of a [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ Pediatricians and the Bush administration will likely soon clash with the powerful drug industry over whether medications that are prescribed for children must be tested [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON_Dr. Mark McClellan, the Food and Drug Administration's new leader, was so precociously smart, says his mother, that he could read words from newspaper ads to her [...]

Byline: Frank James WASHINGTON _ A rising flood of irritating junk e-mails touting everything from get-rich-quick schemes to raunchy pornography, ink-jet cartridges and weight-loss drugs threatens to keep the Internet [...]

WASHINGTON _ The Republican recapture of the U.S. Senate means Sen. John McCain will once again assume the chairmanship of the important Commerce Committee _ a welcome prospect in corporate [...]

BOCA RATON, Fla. _ In the end, Harvey Pitt probably did the best thing he could to restore investor confidence: resign. That's the theme building here as the securities industry [...]

WASHINGTON_Ex-Marine Scott Ritter is a self-described patriot on a self-appointed mission. The 41-year-old former United Nations weapons inspector has said his duty is to be one of the most vocal [...]

WASHINGTON _ As Republicans and Democrats sought political advantage, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that tax receipts into the federal treasury plunged to a degree not seen since [...]

The nation's corporate chieftains Wednesday swore to the veracity of their latest financial results in a government exercise designed to infuse investors with confidence in the U.S. markets. The new [...]

WASHINGTON _ Three years ago, when executives of WorldCom Corp., then a swaggering telecommunications giant, wanted to show their appreciation for their home-state lawmaker, Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, [...]

WASHINGTON _ Poised to speak on Friday to one of the nation's mainstream Muslim advocacy groups, FBI Director Robert Mueller has found himself embroiled in a kind of proxy war [...]

WASHINGTON _ Harvey L. Pitt, the controversial chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission who has come under heavy criticism recently for meetings with executives of companies being investigated by [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. _ A robbery spree turned deadly when four teenagers cruising for victims in a Volvo registered to one of their mothers stopped and killed a federal prosecutor from [...]

WASHINGTON_The nation's three largest airlines and its biggest commercial airplane manufacturer can't give passengers what travelers desire most, guaranteed on-time takeoffs and arrivals. But they intend to meet another perceived [...]

WASHINGTON_Less than 48 hours after his first pick for the job was forced to withdraw her nomination under fire, President-elect George W. Bush turned on Thursday to Elaine Chao, an [...]

WASHINGTON _ Lawmakers on Thursday charged that Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and Ford Motor Co. hadn't adequately tested Ford Explorers equipped with Firestone tires _ a combination implicated in accidents resulting in [...]

WASHINGTON _ Sen. John McCain on Tuesday said he plans to have legislation ready as soon as next week meant to address some of the concerns that have grown out [...]

WASHINGTON _ His company may be taking a beating in the federal courthouse where it is on trial for alleged anti-competitive behavior, but Bill Gates told lawmakers on Tuesday that [...]

WASHINGTON _ SBC Communications Inc.'s planned $56 billion acquisition of Ameritech Corp. drew sharp criticism from competitors, customers and consumer advocates at a Federal Communications Commission public hearing Monday that [...]

WASHINGTON _ Software salesman Shadab Aziz of Houston was preparing recently to catch the first flight on his long journey to Saudi Arabia for the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca [...]

WASHINGTON _ The deep divide in the American electorate was on display Thursday as thousands of Americans noisily protested against President Bush at his second inaugural here and at demonstrations [...]

WASHINGTON _ President Bush recently declared that his victory in the Nov. 2 election constituted an endorsement of his conduct of the war in Iraq, and provides him with a [...]

WASHINGTON _ On his second try at naming a new Homeland Security secretary, President Bush on Tuesday nominated U.S. Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff, who as a senior Justice Department [...]

FAIRFAX, Va. _ Staff Sgt. Patrick McClung reached for the phone in his impeccably squared-away office and heard an anxious father on the other end demanding to know why a [...]

WASHINGTON _ Lame-duck Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Thursday that the nation's intelligence officials have recently observed significantly less communication among suspected terrorists than they did during the 2003-04 [...]

WASHINGTON _ A Bush administration project meant to help keep the nation safe from bioterrorism has raised the question of whether it might actually increase that risk. The government is [...]

WASHINGTON _ If there is a pattern in President Bush's choices for key posts in his second term, it's that the people he has selected often have extraordinary personal stories [...]

WASHINGTON _ Tom Ridge, who has spearheaded efforts to protect the nation from terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks, announced Tuesday he was stepping down as head of the agency [...]

WASHINGTON _ Problems producing flu vaccines that raised the specter of a health crisis have highlighted the difficulties facing the U.S. government as it tries to counter terrorists who would [...]

WASHINGTON _ While President Bush has argued that the U.S. fights terrorists abroad to avoid fighting them at home, Osama bin Laden's re-emergence in a new videotape recently was a [...]

WASHINGTON _ The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday lowered the terror warning level a notch for financial institutions in the New York metropolitan area and Washington, saying the suspected [...]

WASHINGTON _ Speculation swirled about Washington Thursday over the future makeup of President Bush's Cabinet, with reports indicating Attorney General John Ashcroft is likely to leave the administration soon. Secretary [...]

Tuesday's presidential election brought out not just masses of voters, but swarms of partisan legal challenges, bureaucratic glitches and more than a few dirty tricks. And while experts said it [...]

WASHINGTON _ The flu-vaccine shortage took on increasing life as a campaign issue Wednesday as Sen. John Kerry's supporters and other Democrats pressed their charges that missteps by President Bush [...]