Dubai firm gives up on ports deal
Bowing to extreme public and political pressure, a United Arab Emirates company said Thursday it would give up its management stake in U.S. seaports rather than fight what increasingly appeared...
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Ehrlich objects to port deal
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he was concerned that a state-owned company in the United Arab Emirates could gain control of some operations at the port of...
A diversity disappointment
WASHINGTON // Twice this year, Gabriela Lemus hoped to hear the news that President Bush had made history and chosen the first Hispanic nominee to the Supreme Court. Yesterday, her...
DeLay indicted in Texas probe
WASHINGTON // Tom DeLay, the Texas Republican whose bare-knuckled style propelled him to the top echelons of the House and drew allegations of ethical lapses, was forced to step aside...
Roberts: Roe ‘settled as precedent’
WASHINGTON - During a long and sometimes contentious day of questioning, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. called the landmark 1973 abortion rights case "settled as a precedent of...
On abortion issue, Roberts leaves both sides with doubts
WASHINGTON - For many of the activists who have dedicated themselves to the battle over the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion rights is the issue that unites them. Yesterday, they got...
Roberts promises to keep an ‘open mind’
WASHINGTON - President Bush's nominee for chief justice, Judge John G. Roberts Jr., said yesterday that Supreme Court justices have a "limited role" - to apply the law, not make...
Roberts takes first steps toward confirmation
WASHINGTON - Judge John G. Roberts Jr. will take the first formal step toward his expected confirmation as the next chief justice of the United States when he goes before...
Filibuster on Roberts looks unlikely
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. appears unlikely to be blocked by the delaying tactics of a Democratic filibuster, members of a key group...
Md. stands to gain 6,600 jobs
Maryland would gain more than 6,600 jobs - more than all but one other state - as jobs throughout the country are sent here under a vast restructuring of the...