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Faced with growing criticism of its satellite exports to China, the Clinton Administration is rethinking whether to allow one of the biggest sales to date, a $650 million deal President […]

For the past two years, China's military has relied on American-made satellites sold for civilian purposes to transmit messages to its far-flung army garrisons, according to highly classified intelligence reports. […]

The scientist at the center of an investigation of whether two American companies improperly helped China improve its rockets told the Chinese that he would do everything he could to […]

The caution signs made it evident that the application by Loral Space & Communications to export a satellite to China earlier this year was anything but routine. Justice Department prosecutors […]

The White House released a trove of internal documents today showing that President Clinton approved the Chinese launching of an American satellite last February after his top staff advised him […]

A leading American satellite maker acknowledged for the first time today that a committee headed by one of its top executives provided a report in 1996 to the Chinese on […]

On Oct. 9, 1995, Secretary of State Warren Christopher ended a lengthy debate within the Clinton Administration by initialing a classified order that preserved the State Department's sharp limits on […]

A Democratic fund-raiser has told Federal investigators he funneled tens of thousands of dollars from a Chinese military officer to the Democrats during President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, according to […]

After 30 months a Federal grand jury here has nearly completed its examination of evidence compiled by Kenneth W. Starr that President and Hillary Rodham Clinton and their aides have […]

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 […]

In the 1992 election, many of America's aerospace manufacturers backed Bill Clinton. But when President Clinton took office, he immediately disappointed some of them on a key issue, barring them […]

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 […]

The Whitewater investigation might never have come to life had James B. McDougal not been burning trash outside his cabin in rural Arkansas on a day when he was also […]

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 […]

Vernon E. Jordan Jr., one of President Clinton's closest friends, kept the President personally informed of his efforts to find a job and a lawyer for Monica S. Lewinsky in […]

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 […]

As an independent counsel issued a fresh wave of White House subpoenas, President Clinton today denied accusations of having had a sexual affair with a 21-year-old White House intern and […]

The gilded Palais des Nations in Geneva is a perfect setting for the elite group of industry executives and government regulators who regularly meet there to establish worldwide auto safety […]

Three years ago, when Thailand and South Korea were still considered economic miracles and no one but currency traders paid attention to the baht and the won, the United States' […]

For more than 50 years the International Monetary Fund has been imposing austerity plans on countries in crisis. But with the bailout package it agreed to with South Korea last […]

Congress is moving to tighten controls over the export of high performance American computers to Russia and China, prompting strong opposition from the White House and computer manufacturers and talk […]

Defying the United States, a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory secretly acquired 16 advanced I.B.M. computers late last year, using Moscow-based middlemen to evade American export rules, Russian and American officials […]

Since the 1980's, food imports to the United States have doubled. But Federal inspections of those imports by the Food and Drug Administration have dropped to less than half what […]

George J. Tenet, after 10 days as Director of Central Intelligence, named his staff today, turning to veterans of cold war spying and former staff members from the White House […]

Helping Congressional efforts to expand protections for Government whistle-blowers, a new report has questioned the Pentagon's dismissal of an intelligence analyst eight years ago, after he had complained to his […]

In a sign of the new importance that Congress is placing on China's growing international power, lawmakers have taken several steps recently to insure that intelligence officials track the country, […]

After heavy lobbying by the computer industry and the Clinton Administration, the Senate today rejected a proposal to tighten control of the sale of American supercomputers to China and Russia […]

China improperly diverted an American supercomputer to one of its military research facilities earlier this year, prompting complaints in recent days by senior American officials to their Chinese counterparts, American […]

Addressing concerns over the sale of American supercomputers to Russia and China, the Clinton Administration added 13 foreign organizations today to its list of groups that are involved in secretly […]

At night, Bruce L. Jackson is president of the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO, giving intimate dinners for Senators and foreign officials. By day, he is director of strategic planning […]

Since President Clinton deregulated the export of computers in 1995, China has gone on a shopping spree, buying 46 American-made supercomputers and many more that are nearly as powerful, according […]

President Clinton's personal lawyer today accused the Whitewater independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, and his office of violating federal rules that bar prosecutors from disclosing confidential grand jury matters. In […]

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has asked the Justice Department to look at whether there are any links between Asian donors to the Democratic Party and the Clinton […]

The White House said today that the Clintons and their aides did not 'fully' know the seriousness of the allegations against their close friend Webster L. Hubbell until he pleaded […]

The White House has maintained that President and Mrs. Clinton did not know that Webster L. Hubbell faced possible criminal charges when their close associates started organizing a string of […]

A Federal criminal inquiry has uncovered new evidence, including American satellite photos, suggesting that a state-owned Chinese company had all along intended to divert American machine equipment to a military […]

In the spring of 1995, a few months after his fraud conviction, former Associate Attorney General Webster L. Hubbell and his wife asked a recently retired White House aide whether […]

The White House acknowledged today that President Clinton's top advisers and confidants, including his chief of staff, mounted a campaign in 1994 to help find lucrative employment for Webster L. […]

In late June of 1994, the Indonesian businessman James T. Riady saw President Clinton and some of his aides in five days of White House visits ending on a Saturday. […]

President Clinton may have known in 1994 that some of his friends were providing income to Webster L. Hubbell, who had stepped down from the Justice Department that year to […]

In the months after Webster L. Hubbell was forced to resign to face a criminal investigation in 1994, the former Associate Attorney General received more than $400,000 from about a […]

Maria Haley, a longtime aide to President Clinton who is now an appointee of his at the Export-Import Bank, tried last year to push through an unusual $6.5 million financing […]

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 […]

Last year George Kourpias, leader of the machinists union, used the opportunity of a Labor Day celebration to talk to President Clinton about one of his union's major concerns. Mr. […]

Over the past four years, the Clinton Administration and the President's friends have created more than a dozen private funds, financing a range of political and personal causes -- from […]

The bombing in Saudi Arabia last June that killed 19 Americans not only confirmed that the United States had woefully inadequate intelligence about the aggressive opposition within Saudi Arabia. It […]