Eric Lipton

As the financial crisis jolted the nation in September, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was consumed. He traded telephone calls with bankers, then became one of the first officials to promote...

Bruce Ivins arrived in July at a group counseling session at a psychiatric center in Frederick with a startling announcement: Facing the prospect of murder charges, he had bought a...

A Justice Department e-mail message released on Friday shows that the former chief of staff to Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales proposed replacement candidates for U.S. attorneys nearly a year before...

X-ray vision has come to the airport checkpoint here, courtesy of federal aviation officials who have installed a new device that automatically peeks underneath passengers' clothing to search for guns,...

Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, had a Christmas dinner at the White House on Sunday night, and he attended with at least one goal--to apologize for pushing...

Fireproofing, sprinkler systems and the water supply for hoses all largely failed in the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11 in the face of a blaze so intense that...

As expected, George and Laura Bush had a ball Saturday night. In fact, they had eight of them. The long delay in determining the election results left little time for...

United Airlines and its pilots pledged just last week that delegates to the Democratic National Convention wouldn't have a problem getting to Los Angeles. Getting the delegates back home was...