Jul 21 Wolfowitz Calls for Patience As Violence Continues in Iraq Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz called for patience from Iraqis as the U.S. continued its efforts to end violence and begin rebuilding the war-torn nation. Continue reading
Jul 18 Interior Secretary Cleared in Indian Land Trust Case A federal appeals court overturned a contempt ruling against Interior Secretary Gale Norton, saying that most of the Interior Department mismanagement of billions of dollars in royalties for American Indian land trusts occurred before her tenure. Continue reading
Jul 18 Watch Fighting Words in Congress Kwame Holman reports on partisan wrangling in Congress over the $50 billion pension bill passed after a partisan fight that culminated with Republicans calling the police. Continue watching
Jul 16 North Korea Claims Nuclear Advances, China, U.S. Confer Chinese officials have called on the United States and North Korea to begin talks aimed at defusing tension over North Korea's purported pursuit of a nuclear weapons program. Continue reading
Jul 16 Congress Moves to Overturn New Media Ownership Rules A House committee on Wednesday voted to roll back a key part of new media ownership regulations adopted by the Federal Communications Commission last month. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Religious Properties: Federal Money for Historic Religious Buildings Ray Suarez reports on a church-state controversy over federal money being authorized to restore historic religious buildings. Continue watching
Jul 16 Watch Rationale for War in Iraq As questions continue to surface about the reliability of prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq, George Tenet appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Two experts discuss the Bush administration's case for the war in Iraq, its postwar planning and the challenges… Continue watching
Jul 15 Bremer Says U.S. Presence in Iraq Now Up to Iraqi People The American administrator in Iraq said Tuesday that with the creation of the new Iraqi Governing Council, the duration of the U.S. presence in Iraq was now up to the Iraqi people and that the U.S. has "no desire to… Continue reading
Jul 14 Iraqi Governing Council Convenes, Violence Continues Despite the formal introduction of a new 25-member Iraqi interim governing council this weekend, attacks against American occupying forces continued, including the killing of a U.S. soldier Monday. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Redistricting Tussle In Texas Tom Bearden reports on a congressional redistricting struggle in Texas that could add to the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Continue watching