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In a White House press conference Tuesday US President George W. Bush slammed a report from rights group Amnesty International as "absurd" after the organization referred to US detention facilities abroad as an...

US Air Force General Richard Myers , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has criticized an Amnesty International report comparing American treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet gulag where millions...

No criminal charges are to be filed against the pilots of a Cessna 150 aircraft that flew into White House airspace Wednesday, prompting evacuations of the White House, the Capitol, and nearby...

Re: Cheney, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, May 10, 2005 [holding that a federal district court should dismiss a claim for disclosure of internal documents from the National Energy Policy Development Group chaired by...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday unanimously rejected a lawsuit brought against Vice-President Dick Cheney for refusing to disclose internal communications of the National Energy Policy Development Group ,...

Iraqi politicians again delayed naming a government on Monday, prolonging a three-month political vacuum in the country. Jawad al-Maliki, a top member of the main Shiite alliance that won January's elections, said wrangling over appointments to key ministries had...

Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that, if necessary, he would cast the tie-breaking vote to ban Senate filibusters of judicial nominees. Speaking to the Republican National Lawyers Association , Cheney declared that "the decision about...

According to military and Bush administration officials, the US Department of Defense is considering substantial changes to the tribunal process at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terror suspects. The changes, designed in response to widespread criticism...

Defense contractor Halliburton Inc. may have overcharged the federal government by more than $100 million, according to an audit conducted by the Defense Contract Audit Agency and released Monday by Rep. Henry Waxman...

The US Senate has voted 60-36 to confirm White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as US Attorney General, succeeding John Ashcroft. He will be the first Hispanic to hold the office.5:17 PM ET - AP now has more.7:28 PM ET...