Representative John D. Dingell’s reign as his party’s top member on the Committee on Energy and Commerce hangs on a vote of the full Democratic caucus.
The health insurance industry said it would support a plan requiring insurers to accept all customers, but asked that Congress require all Americans to have coverage in return.
The district attorney in Willacy County, Tex., has charged Vice President Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales with crimes connected to the poor treatment of illegal immigrants at detention centers.
For the first time since Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was mentioned as a possible choice for secretary of state, several of the people who could replace her in the Senate were in the same room together.
Responding to pleas from those on both sides of the issue, the California Supreme Court said that it would examine whether a voter-approved ban on same-sex unions was constitutional.
Vendors still owed money from Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign could be out of luck for years should she become secretary of state.
The commander of American and allied naval forces off the coast of Somalia has begun urging merchant vessels to sail with armed guards on board and to travel only within patrolled lanes.
Some American officials are on edge following French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s aggressive statements about American capitalism, and his decision to hold his own financial summit meeting.
Two longtime Republican lawmakers were named to the new five-member review panel set up to monitor the Bush administration’s $700 billion financial rescue plan.
Two government programs intended to help hundreds of thousands of borrowers avoid foreclosure are having negligible effects, a top Bush administration official said.
Powerful antipsychotic medicines are being used far too cavalierly in children, and regulators must do more to warn doctors of their risks, a panel of experts said.