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Problems in searching fingerprint databases have left the American military unable to check fully the identities of thousands of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, raising concerns that they might be […]

Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, on Sunday defended the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein even while intelligence analysts disputed an important piece of evidence behind […]

A senior executive at the Royal Dutch/Shell Group told a subordinate in an e-mail message in December that the employee's preliminary analysis of the company's oil and gas reserves problems […]

Arriving on stage in a spaceship and an astronaut suit, Philip Watts, then the senior executive in charge of exploration and production for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, glowed as he […]

President Bush stood at a gasoline station near his ranch in Texas today and said he had been calling for an energy bill to modernize the nation's electricity grid 'for […]

The release of the Congressional report on the Sept. 11 attacks is the culmination of a protracted, occasionally bumpy and often secret investigation into the intelligence failings that led to […]

Seven months after telling Congress he would do so, George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, has yet to provide the names of agency officials responsible for one of […]

Federal investigators have arrested an American businessman on two charges of paying tens of millions of dollars to senior officials of Kazakhstan in connection with an oil concession awarded by […]

Two leading American aerospace companies have agreed to pay a record $32 million in penalties to settle civil charges that they unlawfully transferred rocket and satellite data to China in […]

The State Department has accused two leading American aerospace companies of 123 violations of export laws in connection with the transfer of satellite and rocket data to China during the […]

Federal prosecutors have said that President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan accepted large bribes in connection with dispensing his country's oil concessions during the 1990's, and later tried to obstruct the […]

The system of safeguards that was put in place over the years to protect investors and employees from a catastrophic corporate implosion largely failed to detect or address the problems […]

Wendy and Phil Gramm, one of the capital's power couples, would seem to have been some of Enron's more reliable supporters in Washington. Senator Gramm, Republican of Texas, espouses a […]

Officials of the Enron Corporation met four times last year with the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force to discuss energy policy matters, but they never talked […]

John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old American who fought with the Taliban, has provided useful information to United States officials who have detained him at a desert Marine base in southern […]

For years, the Enron Corporation used its political muscle to build the markets in which it thrived, pushing relentlessly on Capitol Hill and in bureaucratic backwaters to deregulate the nation's […]

For years American officials have suspected that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network were taking advantage of the free-wheeling financial system of the United Arab Emirates, a tiny Persian […]

They are the elite of Saudi society -- wealthy, respected men with investments that span the globe and reputations for generosity. Yasin al-Qadi is among the prominent Saudis who those […]

American officials say they have evidence that Osama bin Laden is using a network of shops that sell honey -- a staple of Middle Eastern life since biblical times -- […]

Duke Energy, a power-generating company accused of overcharging customers millions of dollars during California's year-old energy crisis, has secretly offered Gov. Gray Davis a deal that it hopes will solve […]

California utilities paid $6.2 billion above competitive prices for wholesale electricity over the last 10 months, according to estimates filed today by the operators of the state's power grid. While […]

The Federal Trade Commission announced plans today to subpoena records from 90 pharmaceutical companies to see whether drug industry strategies were keeping lower-cost generic drugs from patients or harming consumers. […]

The stakes were high on Feb. 2, 1998, when Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories squared off here in patent court. For three years, the companies had been fighting about […]

The State Department has charged the Lockheed Martin Corporation with 30 violations of arms export laws in connection with its help in evaluating problems in Chinese-made satellite technology in 1994. […]

A Federal grand jury indicted McDonnell Douglas -- a unit of Boeing, -- and a state-owned aerospace company in China on charges of conspiring to hide important details of a […]

A Federal grand jury indicted the McDonnell Douglas Corporation and a powerful state-owned aerospace company in China today on charges of conspiring to hide important details of a 1994 sale […]

The Government's investigation into how China got American nuclear weapons secrets was plagued by widespread mistakes and misjudgments but there was no political interference, according to the two ranking members […]

Two Congressional investigations, set off from different starting points, are examining Citibank and the confidential world of private banking, a growing and highly lucrative service. The investigations, led by lawmakers […]

In a diplomatically sensitive case, the Justice Department is nearing a decision on whether to indict one of China's most powerful state-owned corporations, law-enforcement officials and lawyers say. Some career […]

Several Congressional committees are investigating whether the Administration's policy of exporting space satellite technology to China has helped China and other countries to develop and use nuclear missiles. The inquiries […]

A Federal grand jury is investigating whether two American companies illegally gave China space expertise that significantly advanced Beijing's ballistic missile program, according to Administration officials. But the officials said […]

Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the cool and elegant confidential adviser to President Clinton, spent the day before the Federal grand jury that is investigating the President's relationship with a former […]

Monica S. Lewinsky is claiming that President Clinton told her at a private meeting late last month that she could testify in the Paula Corbin Jones lawsuit that her visits […]

Monica S. Lewinsky met privately with President Clinton in the White House late last month, even though Administration officials had previously ordered that her access be restricted, according to both […]

The Justice Department is investigating whether the McDonnell Douglas Corporation violated a Federal law that bars military contractors from winning sales contracts abroad by inducing American companies to buy goods […]

Racing to expand a growing investigation, Congressional Republicans have filed more than 77 requests seeking information from an assortment of Federal agencies, the Democratic National Committee and the White House […]

A new report by Federal regulators says legal work performed by Hillary Rodham Clinton and a law partner was used to facilitate sham payments in a 10-year-old real estate deal […]

The Justice Department provided new details today into when and why it opened an investigation into the trail of tens of millions of dollars whisked out of Mexico to Switzerland […]

With Republicans saying the White House was deceptive and Democrats complaining of a partisan witch hunt, the House Banking Committee today began a week of hearings into the financial and […]

Representative Christopher Cox of California, the architect of a House bill that would make it harder for investors to sue for misconduct, has been sued for fraud as a result […]

A Federal grand jury today indicted the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, charging him with making false statements to obtain a federally backed loan and conspiring to defraud the […]

The Federal Reserve has decided to take no action after completing a two-year inquiry into the financial ties of the Stephens family in Little Rock, Ark. The investigation focused on […]

In the weeks before he was replaced as the independent counsel investigating the Whitewater case, Robert B. Fiske Jr. substantially broadened his inquiry to examine the way Bill Clinton had […]

The chairman of the House Banking Committee decided today to end his investigation into the collapse of an Arkansas savings and loan association without seeking access to government records about […]

Federal investigators are raising questions about ties between President Clinton and an Arkansas businessman, a political patron of Mr. Clinton in the 1980's whose failed savings and loan is now […]

A powerful business empire with close links to the Clinton White House is under investigation by the Federal Reserve, an inquiry that has opened the fiercely private business group to […]

President Clinton expressed satisfaction today with the verdict in the police beating trial in Los Angeles and then used the decision as a platform to promote spiritual and economic revitalization. […]

Government lawyers told a Senate panel today that Federal attempts to sue and recover money from former officials of defunct savings and loan associations had been mismanaged and relaxed in […]

LEAD: A former Bush aide, whose role in the Government sale of several troubled banks and savings institutions in the Southwest is being investigated, told Congress today that a firm […]