Senate opts to keep provision for guest workers
A comprehensive immigration bill survived a significant test Tuesday as the Senate voted to keep a provision that would let hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers enter the country...
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Bush selects acting chief to lead FDA
President Bush announced Monday that he would nominate the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Lester Crawford, to be the agency's permanent commissioner. The announcement comes amid a...
Reporter ordered to testify about leak
A federal district judge in Washington has ordered a reporter for The New York Times to testify before a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert...
Bush budget plan drops key ideas
President Bush will propose a $2.3 trillion budget Monday that backs away from some of the major spending and tax initiatives he supported in prior years, administration officials say. Constrained...
Egypt, Saudi airlines won’t share passenger list data
Federal officials said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia and Egypt have refused to cooperate with American efforts to identify terrorists and other criminals on aircraft flying to the United States. Ninety-four...
Terror in, drugs out as focus of Customs
The new chief of the U.S. Customs Service said Tuesday that terrorism has replaced drug smuggling as the agency's priority, and that since Sept. 11 he has redeployed hundreds of...
House panel approves anti-terrorism package
By a 36-0 vote, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill on Wednesday night that would give law-enforcement officials broad new authority to investigate suspected terrorists. House Republican leaders said...
House panel approves anti-terrorism package
By a 36-0 vote, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill on Wednesday night that would give law-enforcement officials broad new authority to investigate suspected terrorists. House Republican leaders said...
AIDS SPENDING DEBATE
In his presidential campaign, Bill Clinton promised to increase spending for research on AIDS. Scientists will hold him to his word, for they agree that the limits on worthwhile research...
U.S. SEEKING COST CUTS IN MEDICARE
The Reagan administration is drafting a proposal to use price incentives and lists of selected doctors to help control the volume of physician services provided to 31 million elderly and...