The Justice Department lawyer who represents the Bush administration’s legal positions before the Supreme Court says he is resigning after more than seven years on the job.
In its hunt for wealthy Americans who have stashed money overseas to evade taxes, the U.S. government has turned to an obscure law enacted nearly four decades ago.
Senate and House Democrats said that they had reached a tentative agreement on a budget blueprint that sets spending levels somewhat higher than President Bush had requested.
The Pentagon official in charge of war crimes cases dismissed charges against a Saudi who had been subjected to aggressive interrogation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The Food and Drug commissioner has written Congress that the agency needs an immediate infusion of $275 million to ensure that imported foods, drugs and medical devices are safe.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said that expensive new conventional weapons must prove their value to current conflicts if they are to be included in further Pentagon budgets.
A revised Senate bill would require drug makers and medical device makers to publicly report gifts over $500 a year to doctors, watering down the standard set in a previous version.
The documents, which officials have described as representing a complete accounting of North Korea’s plutonium production, were briefly displayed to the media on Tuesday.
