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When the Senate Intelligence Committee held a closed-door session last summer about the bombing of an American military housing complex in Saudi Arabia, it heard from an unusual witness: the […]

A Congressional inquiry has found that the Commerce Department approved the sale of American machine equipment in 1994 despite advance warning that China might use the equipment for military rather […]

In the final days of the campaign, the White House withheld major details of the discussions between President Clinton and a prominent Indonesian family despite recommendations for fuller disclosure by […]

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 […]

Nearly two years ago the McDonnell Douglas Corporation announced a deal with China that seemed like a victory for both American commercial diplomacy and the aircraft maker's work force: a […]

The 10,000 miles between Little Rock, Ark., and Jakarta, Indonesia, shrank when Bill Clinton became President. The commercial ties forged between an Indonesian banking family and Arkansan entrepreneurs began while […]

The wealthy Indonesian family and its associates who raised millions of dollars for President Clinton and the Democratic Party have had their American banking practices repeatedly criticized by Federal regulators […]

Last year, when Indonesia's Ambassador here wanted to arrange a rare meeting with President Clinton, he did not rely on the State Department or the White House, but turned to […]

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 […]

Much of the financial support for terrorists who attack Americans, Israelis and others sympathetic to the West comes from wealthy individuals from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries allied […]

A House subcommittee today approved legislation that could subject outside White House advisers to conflict of interest laws and ethics rules. The bill, which unanimously passed the subcommittee on Government […]

When President Clinton needed a prominent representative to attend, and then brief him on, the inauguration of Taiwan's first democratically elected president last May, his choice was Vernon E. Jordan […]

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 […]

While foreign-policy makers have trouble even defining the post-cold-war era, Washington deal makers have already figured out how to make millions in it. A cottage industry of consultants, business executives […]

The White House disclosed today that President Clinton and his wife, Hillary, paid the Government $2,910 in back taxes and interest earlier this month as a result of incorrect income […]

Republican Congressional leaders today sharpened their criticism of the Clinton Administration's welfare policies, telling the President that his speech endorsing Wisconsin's radical welfare experiment was at odds with his own […]

If Boris N. Yeltsin is re-elected President of Russia in June, he will owe his victory in some part to one of Washington's least-known but most powerful people: Michel Camdessus. […]

The Federal Reserve will release new $100 bills with off-center likenesses of Benjamin Franklin on Monday, and, based on past experience, most of them will soon be abroad. The bills […]

Even as President Clinton and Congressional Republicans race to take credit for shrinking the Federal payroll, the Government's costs for outside, or contract, employees keep rising. No one argues that […]

Lamar Alexander learned early on that an association with Washington could be a political liability. In 1974, as the 34-year-old Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee during the maelstrom of […]

When President Clinton delivered his State of the Union Message last month, no part was more warmly applauded than his declaration that the 'era of big government is over.' To […]

Wayne Valis, a veteran Washington lobbyist, saw a fund-raising dinner as the perfect opportunity to introduce a new lawyer at his company to Bob and Elizabeth Dole. Mr. Valis paid […]

Hoping to energize liberals disaffected with the Clinton Administration, the Americans for Democratic Action today endorsed President Clinton as the Democratic nominee Traditionally the group has resisted backing incumbent Democratic […]

The Federal Election Commission has charged that Gopac, the political organization led for years by Speaker Newt Gingrich, provided him with more than $250,000 in hidden support in 1990 as […]

Two years ago, the owners of the red cinder-block prison in this poor mill town threw a lavish party to celebrate the prison's opening and show off its computer monitoring […]

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 […]

In March 1992, Bill Clinton, running for President, acknowledged that he and his wife, Hillary, had improperly claimed tax deductions for interest payments that had actually been made by the […]

From the moment questions about the Whitewater real estate venture began arising nearly three years ago, the main defense by President Clinton and his wife, Hillary, has been that they […]

Webster L. Hubbell, who once stood at the pinnacle of the legal establishment in Arkansas and Washington, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for mail fraud and tax […]

A Government audit has questioned $446,000 in billings by the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, almost a third of the Arkansas firm's expenses for its savings and loan industry […]

A dozen current and former Government officials today questioned the accuracy of a report last year by Treasury Department officials that concluded the Government had done enough to recover money […]

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 former aide to Gov. Bill Clinton in Arkansas, Stephen A. Smith, today pleaded guilty to conspiring to misapply a Federally backed loan and agreed to cooperate with the Whitewater […]

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 […]

It was a measure that had lingered for years on the wish lists of corporate lobbyists. But in about 60 days, Representative Christopher Cox, Republican of California, led an effort […]

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 […]

The 1990 bank loans at the core of the case that prosecutors are building against Bruce Lindsey, President Clinton's most trusted adviser, seem obscure, but during the 1992 Presidential race […]

In the 1970's, Newt Gingrich, an assistant professor who taught environmental studies and an unsuccessful Congressional candidate, criticized a local manufacturing company. The company, Southwire, was a powerful force. It […]

A company whose chairman was once the Secretary of Defense teamed up with a Canadian arms dealer and some enterprising officials in the former Soviet republic of Belarus in a […]

The Federal Election Commission ruled today that the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign committee had to repay the Treasury more than $1 million in Federal matching funds because some of its […]

WEBSTER L. HUBBELL once was the epitome of power and probity in Little Rock, whether it was briefly heading the Arkansas Supreme Court or drafting an ethics law for his […]

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 […]

Trumpeted for months as Congress's first look at Whitewater, the House Banking Committee hearing today had next to nothing to do with either Ozarks real estate or the Clintons' personal […]

Roger C. Altman, the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, admonished a top savings and loan regulator for not informing him in advance about a bad-debt notice sent earlier this year […]

John H. Dalton, the Secretary of the Navy, settled an old debt to the agency overseeing the savings and loan bailouts by paying the Federal Government about $17,900 last week, […]

When President Clinton announced last year that he had picked John H. Dalton to be Secretary of the Navy, he praised the nominee's 'true leadership ability' as a Texas businessman. […]

Representative Dan Rostenkowski raised more than $750,000 last year for his legal defense from a wide array of powerful interests that had stakes in the legislation handled by the committee […]

Bowing to political pressure, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton today released tax returns and other financial data that give the clearest picture to date of how the couple made and […]