Michael Tackett

The capital's prolific noise industry apparently has killed law professor Lani Guinier's chances of becoming the government's chief civil rights enforcer. The New York Times, quoting unidentified White House officials,...

Mayor Richard Daley made the rounds of Washington on Tuesday to discuss crime prevention with Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and to promote elements of President Clinton's failed stimulus package. Daley...

Does U.S. Atty. Jay Stephens, after more than a year of examining dozens of witnesses and hundreds of pages of records, have the evidence to indict Rep. Dan Rostenkowski? Stephens...

A gunman methodically opened fire Monday morning as he walked among cars near the main entrance of the CIA headquarters, killing two men and wounding three other people in what...

For 18 months, Jay Stephens, the U. S. attorney here, has been examining records, interviewing witnesses and winning guilty pleas in connection with fraud in the House of Representatives Post...

The question from the Republican Senate investigator to the former White House aide seemed straightforward enough. Just what was it that Ed Rogers, once the top assistant to former White...

President Bush, visibly exasperated Friday when members of POW-MIA families interrupted his speech with shouts of ''No more lies'' and ''Tell the truth,'' turned on his audience and angrily snapped,...

The House ethics committee dropped a political depth charge Thursday when it released the names of 303 current and former lawmakers who overdrew their accounts at the now-closed House bank....

In the summer of 1974, after mornings of pumping weights and hours of studying law, Clarence Thomas often sat at the dinner table with Margaret Bush Wilson in St. Louis...

Thomas missed serving in Vietnam through student deferments, a medical disqualification and some luck. When he transferred from the seminary to Holy Cross, he was classified draft-eligible and passed a...