Politics Mar 15 Russia’s Putin Coasts to Re-Election Victory Incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin won reelection in Sunday's presidential poll by a comfortable margin. The Russian leader faced no strong competitors and found little need to vigorously campaign.
Nation Mar 11 House Approves Tougher Broadcast Indecency Measures By a 391-22 vote, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation significantly raising fines for the airing of television and radio broadcasts deemed indecent.
Nation Mar 05 Bush Campaign Ads Featuring 9/11 Come Under Fire President Bush's reelection campaign came under fire Friday, as some families of Sept. 11 victims and firefighters protested that the new TV commercials using images from the terror attacks were exploiting the tragedy for political gain.
World Mar 04 German Court Overturns Conviction in 9/11 Plot Germany's highest court Thursday overturned the world's only conviction related to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, ordering the retrial of a Moroccan man with alleged ties to a Hamburg-based al-Qaida terror cell.
Nation Mar 03 U.S. Intelligence Links Jordanian Militant to Iraq Attacks Top U.S. military commander Army Gen. John Abizaid said Wednesday the United States has intelligence linking fugitive Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi to Tuesday's deadly attacks on Shiite Muslim shrines in Iraq.
Politics Feb 25 High Court Upholds State Ban on Religion Scholarships The Supreme Court upheld Wednesday government scholarship restrictions that bar any taxpayer money for college students who pursue a degree in theology, an important legal marker in the rules of church-state separation.
Nation Feb 23 Bombing in Iraq Kills At Least 8 After Rumsfeld Visit A suspected suicide bomber detonated a car bomb Monday morning at a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least eight Iraqi national police officers and wounding about 35 others, U.S. military officials said.
Nation Feb 12 Abizaid Convoy Attacked; Timing of Elections Still Uncertain The U.S. commander in the Middle East, Gen. John Abizaid, escaped unharmed from a rocket-propelled grenade attack on his convoy Thursday in the turbulent city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
Politics Feb 06 Pres. Bush Forms Bipartisan Iraq Intelligence Review Panel Bowing to pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers, President Bush on Friday named seven people to sit on a bipartisan independent commission to investigate U.S. intelligence failures in prewar Iraq.
Politics Jan 30 Candidates Take Aim At Feb. 3 Primaries, Front-runner Kerry The three candidates who trailed Sen. John Kerry and Howard Dean in the New Hampshire primary results -- Tuesday's contests in seven states offer an opportunity to emerge as one of the candidates that could challenge front-runner Kerry.