NY Times: Washington
August 21, 2008
13:41
Barack Obama and John McCain are heading into their conventions neck and neck, with voters focused on the economy, a New York Times/CBS News poll found.
13:07
As policy makers work to ease the strain on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a consensus is emerging that the two companies will have to look substantially different in the long term.
11:13
Medicare officials’ 2006 statements that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims were misleading, a draft report says.
11:01
A federal judge said he would not move Senator Ted Stevens’s trial to Mr. Stevens’s home state.
10:58
Loosened restrictions would allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion.
09:29
Gen. David H. Petraeus is preparing to leave Iraq a much safer place than it was when he arrived.
07:15
Scientists used techniques not invented in 2001 to trace anthrax to its source, a flask in Bruce Ivins’s custody.
02:10
Once solidly Democratic, western Pennsylvania has become an uncertain political terrain and a target for John McCain.
01:35
American officials concede that they do not completely understand the balance of power within the new Russian leadership.
01:25
Two independent advocacy groups are trying to turn a relatively low-profile pro-labor vote in Congress into a major impediment for Democrats as they seek to expand their Senate majority.
01:24
Senator Barack Obama has sharpened his stump speech, focusing more on the economy.
00:27
Ms. Tubbs Jones was the first African-American woman elected to the House from Ohio.
August 1, 2008
09:39
As the tone of the contest sharpened, the exchange injected racial politics front and center into the campaign.
05:05
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s decision to resign has hurt the chances of a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians this year, foreign policy experts say.
03:28
Mrs. Slocum was a doyenne of Newport, R.I., society and a stalwart of the Republican Party in Rhode Island and nationally.
01:43
The language of a resolution to extend the mandate for peacekeeping troops in Darfur sent the wrong signal to Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the U.S. said.
00:34
The House overwhelmingly approved an overhaul of the nation’s higher education law, adding dozens of provisions and programs to help families with soaring college costs.
00:20
A federal judge set a date of Sept. 24 to begin Senator Ted Stevens’s trial on charges that he concealed more than $250,000 in gifts from an oil services company and its chief executive.
00:19
A coalition of protest groups was seeking to ease strict security provisions at the Democratic National Convention, but Judge Marcia S. Krieger questioned how the rules impinged on free speech.
00:18
President Bush has approved a revision of the executive order that governs the nation’s 16 spy agencies, the latest effort to unite the bureaucracies under the director of national intelligence.
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