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Senator Richard C. Shelby, who has links to the mortgage industry, is helping to decide the fate of a housing bill.

There were talks between party leaders and Senator Barack Obama as he made a public return to the Capitol.

Kristin Griffith gives a commanding performance in this inventive play about President Richard M. Nixon’s loyal-to-the-end secretary.

Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood’s assignment was cancelled after the Pakistani media excoriated him for his previous job as commander of Guantánamo Bay.

Two “West Wing” actors are backing up Arianna Huffington’s account of a Los Angeles dinner party, where she says she heard John McCain say that he had not voted for George W. Bush in 2000.

Vito J. Fossella declined to address questions about his political future after being arrested for drunken driving and acknowledging fathering a daughter in an extramarital affair.

Vito Fossella, who was so upset about President Bill Clinton’s actions several years ago, now has his own sex scandal and his own rule-of-law problem.

North Korea has turned over 18,000 pages of documents related to its plutonium program, ahead of an agreement meant to begin the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

The general manager of a Utah mine withheld information that could have prevented a disaster, the chairman of a Congressional investigation said.

One of the biggest sticking points on the $300 billion bill has been how much money would be paid to wealthy farmers.

Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, petitioned the government to pull the birth control patch off the market, calling it far riskier than the pill.

The Bush administration proposed on Thursday to crack down on the aggressive marketing of private Medicare insurance plans.

Senator John McCain has an interest in the filling of vacancies at the Federal Election Commission, to which President Bush announced three nominees.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s diminished political momentum appears to have had a dampening effect on her fund-raising, aides said.

The bill would provide up to $300 billion in insured loans to refinance the mortgages of debt-strapped homeowners.

The F.A.A. is confronting long-term questions about whether it should act more like a tough regulator, rather than a partner, of the airlines.

Under the aegis of the Fed, BlackRock is managing $30 billion of hard-to-sell assets from Bear Stearns. If it fumbles, the Fed, and by extension taxpayers, could lose billions.

Senate Democrats called for a temporary special tax on oil companies’ profits and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package.

Senate Democrats and the White House moved ahead with a compromise to break a years-long impasse over approving judges for the federal appeals court based in Ohio.

The Clinton era may be coming to an end, presenting the party with a potentially wrenching transition and a challenge to Barack Obama.