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1 week 21 hours agoJanuary 23, 2006
09:21
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to decide if states may restrict candidates for judgeships from political party activities and soliciting campaign contributions.
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06:20
An aide to President Bush told NBC News Monday that Bush’s photographs in the company of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff amount to a coincidence and shouldn’t be interpreted any more seriously than that.
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05:05
The Justice Department's voting section, a small and usually obscure unit that enforces the Voting Rights Act and other federal election laws, has been thrust into the center of a growing debate over recent departures and controversial decisions in the Civil Rights Division as a whole.
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January 22, 2006
18:17
Former President Gerald Ford underwent more treatment for pneumonia Saturday at a hospital where he was admitted a week earlier.
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18:02
Pakistan's prime minister visits Washington this week at a time of increased tension between the two allies, with thousands demonstrating in Pakistan to denounce a U.S. airstrike that killed civilians Jan. 13.
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14:08
At least five photographs show President Bush with the lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal, Time magazine reported Sunday.
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January 18, 2006
21:42
Republicans are using town meetings and other outreach efforts to try to tamp down senior citizens' outrage over the complicated and troubled new Medicare prescription drug program.
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18:06
Democrats Wednesday unveiled their cure for ethics scandals, including shutting down ”pay-to-play” arrangements that created unusually close ties between lawmakers and lobbyists.
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18:04
In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a lower court was wrong to strike down New Hampshire abortion restrictions.
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15:00
While the national abortion debate is now focused on the Supreme Court, both sides expect crucial battles to unfold this year on the state level .
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13:32
Montana Republican Senator Conrad Burns is having a hard time shedding campaign donations linked to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. NBC News' Joel Seidman reports from Washington.
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11:46
Ex-President Ford was hospitalized and given antibiotics to fight off a bout of pneumonia.
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06:28
The suspension of Bill Clinton’s law license in connection with the Monica Lewinsky affair ends Thursday, but an aide declined to say whether the ex-president is seeking reinstatement.
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January 17, 2006
23:25
Rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Oregon’s one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law.
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23:23
A day after Hillary Clinton blasted the Bush administration and compared the GOP-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation, Republicans said the New York senator was out of line.
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17:53
Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday called for a federal investigation of President Bush's domestic surveillance policy.
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16:37
Will Congress react to the Supreme Court’s ruling by passing a law to give the Bush administration the power to stop assisted suicide?
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14:12
January 13, 2006
19:59
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, who lost his House leadership post, now has another worry: an unprecedented four-way primary for the seat he’s held comfortably for 22 years.
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17:32
Embattled Ohio Republican Bob Ney is in talks with House Speaker Dennis Hastert about resigning a House committee chairmanship, a senior House GOP aide told The Associated Press on Friday.
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