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Correction Appended Banks are struggling to make money in the credit card business these days, and consumers are paying the price. Interest rates are going up, credit lines are being […]

LATE last month, five jumbo jets from Riyadh touched down at Heathrow Airport in London. They brought with them 13 members of the Saudi royal family, including King Abdullah and […]

The British energy company BP, tarnished by a string of costly legal problems, is preparing to settle accusations that it was criminally indifferent to worker safety and that it manipulated […]

Last February, top F.B.I. officers from across the nation gathered in a high-security auditorium for the latest plan to reinvent the crime-fighting agency to take on terrorism. Philip Mudd, who […]

THERE are few counterterrorism success stories more compelling than that of Raed al-Banna, a 32-year-old Jordanian turned away by wary border officers who found 'multiple terrorist risk factors' and refused […]

After weeks in which the White House has declined to release pictures of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist, the first photograph to be published of the two […]

The Rev. Marco Arana drove his beige pickup over the curves of a dirt road 13,000 feet high in the Andes. Spread out below lay the Yanacocha gold mine, an […]

Jianping Qu was 35 years old when he arrived in the United States a decade ago, a veteran of the rough and tumble of China's marketplace. He has said he […]

The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the […]

For decades, the most egregious workplace safety violations have routinely escaped prosecution, even when they led directly to deaths or grievous injuries. Safety inspectors hardly ever called in the Justice […]

In nightly sermons broadcast on the Internet, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, a 46-year-old Syrian-born cleric, has urged young Muslim men all over the world to support the Iraq insurgency on […]

F.B.I. officials said yesterday that they would not be able to fully deploy a long-awaited computer system to manage the bureau's case files before the end of the year as […]

Draft reports by the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks portray Attorney General John Ashcroft as largely uninterested in counterterrorism issues before Sept. 11 despite intelligence warnings that summer […]

ON a chilly Monday in early November, Laura Bush appeared at a lunchtime reception at a baronial mansion in Wilmington, Del., to express her husband's gratitude for $350,000 in contributions […]

Jaber A. Elbaneh, the last member of a group of Yemeni-American men from Lackawanna, N.Y., who attended a Qaeda training camp in the spring and summer of 2001, has been […]

Several prominent Hollywood lawyers have been questioned in recent months by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with a grand jury investigation into suspected illegal wiretapping by the private […]

The journey into the heart of Al Qaeda began here, in the frayed Yemeni-American neighborhood of this former steel town just south of Buffalo. For Sahim Alwan, a 28-year-old youth […]

Senior American military officials say that as much as 650,000 tons of ammunition remains at thousands of sites used by the former Iraqi security forces, and that much of it […]

McWane Inc., an Alabama-based pipe manufacturer with one of the worst workplace safety records in America, has been fined $196,000 for new violations at its largest plant, the federal Occupational […]

In their hometown, the McWanes are known for quiet generosity. The family pledged $10 million to the science museum, the McWane Center. They have given millions more to Alabama's major […]

In advance of the expected war against Iraq, the American-backed Iraqi opposition is solidifying ties to Iran, part of what President Bush has called the 'axis of evil,' and opposing […]

Two weeks after the terrorist attacks in New York and on the Pentagon, investigators have not yet identified any knowing accomplices in the United States or uncovered a broad support […]

The United States government constructed a secret tunnel under the Soviet Union's embassy in Washington to eavesdrop, but federal investigators now believe the operation was betrayed by the F.B.I. agent […]

In 1998, Dick Cheney pulled off what was widely seen as a business coup. Ending years of fruitless talks, Mr. Cheney arranged a merger between Halliburton, the company he ran, […]

The energy services company that Dick Cheney served for much of the last five years as chairman and chief executive has agreed to let Mr. Cheney, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, […]

Bernae Gunderson, a certified paralegal who lives in St. Paul, is not intimidated by fine print. But she was still puzzled by the mortgage documents she got in May 1998 […]

An international arms dealer alternately an ally and a target of American intelligence and law-enforcement agencies has been arrested in the United States and, under a year-old indictment unsealed in […]

Mexican authorities, backed by F.B.I. investigators, began yesterday to excavate sites near the Texas border that they believe may hold the bodies of scores of Mexicans and Americans who disappeared […]

Six years ago, a self-effacing Russian emigre with scant business experience set up a modest New Jersey company that planned to introduce entrepreneurs from the new Russia to American capitalists. […]