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May 4--WASHINGTON -- The House yesterday overwhelmingly approved legislation to punish oil companies for any incidents of price-gouging, hoping to quell voter anger over escalating gasoline costs and targeting an [...]

Jan. 5--SAGO, W.Va. -- A tearful mining company president took responsibility yesterday for a series of mistakes and delays in communication that allowed families of 13 trapped miners to believe [...]

Jan. 4--SAGO, W. Va. -- In a staggering development, family members said mining officials revealed early this morning that 12 men died in an explosion Monday in a coal mine. [...]

Oct. 3--WASHINGTON -- A defiant Tom DeLay said yesterday that he would continue to be active in shaping the GOP agenda on Capitol Hill and predicted he would be cleared [...]

Sep. 29--WASHINGTON -- In the bitterly partisan Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike talk about Representative Tom DeLay with the awe and fear usually accorded to authoritarian leaders or kings: Defy [...]

Sep. 1--WASHINGTON -- As recently as this summer, Louisiana pleaded for federal help to protect the state's rapidly eroding coastline -- a key natural defense against floods and major storms [...]

Jul. 30--WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted yesterday to give gun makers and dealers immunity from civil lawsuits brought by gunshot victims and their families, handing a major victory to the [...]

Jul. 23--WASHINGTON -- Key House lawmakers yesterday unveiled a plan they said would solve the battle over how to clean up water supplies contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE, a [...]

Jul. 15--WASHINGTON -- The federal government's chief investigator yesterday blasted the Pentagon for its 'atrocious financial management,' saying the Defense Department was not able to give federal oversight officials a [...]

Jul. 12--WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday connected last week's deadly London transit bombings to a global battle against terrorism from Southeast Asia to the United States, citing the attacks as [...]

Jun. 22--WASHINGTON -- Presidential hopeful Senator Joseph Biden, bemoaning what he called the White House's 'credibility gap' on Iraq, yesterday laid out a plan to ease the United States out [...]

Jun. 11--WASHINGTON -- Faced with plummeting public support for the war in Iraq, a growing number of members of Congress from both parties are reevaluating the reasons for the invasion [...]

May 25--WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, once lords of their unusually well-disciplined majority, are seeing their grip weaken over the House and Senate, where emboldened GOP moderates and [...]

May 24--WASHINGTON -- For Senate majority leader and presidential hopeful Bill Frist, last night's agreement on judicial nominees was full of what he called good news and bad news -- [...]