The Army Corps of Engineers’ top contracting official has demanded an investigation into contracts given to Halliburton, citing improper action that favored Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)’s old company.
According to documents made available to Reuters on Monday by congressional sources, Army Corps whistle-blower Bunny Greenhouse complained of repeated interference in billions of [...]

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By Sen. BOB GRAHAM
To the Editor:
Re “War of Words,” by Tommy Franks (Op-Ed, Oct. 19):
John Kerry is correct that resources were diverted from Afghanistan to Iraq before we accomplished our mission there. How can I be so sure? General Franks told me…..
On Feb. 19, 2002, I visited Central Command headquarters for a briefing on our [...]

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Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, one of several leaders of state efforts to buy prescription drugs from outside the United States, says he has found at least 30,000 doses of flu vaccine in his conversations with overseas drug wholesalers and wants permission from the federal authorities to buy the doses for elderly residents of [...]

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President Bush (news - web sites) and Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) stayed on the offensive in swing states Sunday as the presidential race entered its final full week. In a television interview, Bush said it is “up in the air” whether the nation can ever be fully safe from another terror attack [...]

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The weighted average dollar exchange rate was 29 RUR/USD in the first 90 minutes of trade at a special session today. Thus, the official dollar rate for October 23-25 will decrease by RUR0.12. This is the most considerable one-day drop of the dollar against the ruble since late April. The low on the deals was [...]

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The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, produce missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq’s most sensitive former military installations.
The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under [...]

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In early November 2001, with Americans still staggered by the Sept. 11 attacks, a small group of White House officials worked in great secrecy to devise a new system of justice for the new war they had declared on terrorism.
Determined to deal aggressively with the terrorists they expected to capture, the officials bypassed the federal [...]

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At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department drafted a confidential memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation — a practice that international legal specialists say contravenes the Geneva Conventions.
One intelligence official familiar with the operation said the CIA has used the March draft memo as legal support [...]

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We were tricked by George W. Bush
They told us we were shooting a Greenpeace
commercial!
When the camera crew showed up, we wondered
why they were all driving Hummers. Our agent
assured us it was a Greenpeace commercial and
they paid TWICE our hourly steak rate. Little did we
know we were being tricked into this vicious
campaign attack ad…{{link http://www.wolfpacksfortruth.org [...]

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Two men ran onstage and threw custard pies at conservative columnist Ann Coulter as she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona, hitting her in the shoulder, police said.
University police arrested the men but did not release their identities.
In her half-hour speech Thursday night, Coulter trashed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and derided [...]

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FORT ERIE, Ontario Numerous Americans are traveling into Canada in a last-ditch attempt to get a flu shot.
Many are being turned away by their doctors and at clinics because of a shortage in the United States while Canada has a surplus of vaccine.
The Urgent Care Niagara’s Fort Erie clinic is just across the border from [...]

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In a step fraught with risks for Prime Minister Tony Blair, Britain has agreed to send 850 of its soldiers from relatively peaceful southern Iraq to a volatile area near Baghdad, freeing US troops to step up attacks on insurgent strongholds west of the capital.
The move is part of a coalition effort to bring order [...]

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President Bush (news - web sites) and Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) are locked in a tie for the popular vote, according to an Associated Press poll, while a chunk of voters vacillate between their desire for change and their doubts about the alternative… The result is deadlock. In the survey of [...]

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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says those on Capitol Hill who got flu shots in his office were either following federal guidelines or their own doctors’ recommendations.
Frist — who is also a physician — responded today to criticism that his office was used as a makeshift clinic to administer shots to colleagues two days after [...]

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It was easy to call the winner in Tuesday night’s U.S. Senate debate.
Democrat Dr. Daniel Mongiardo appeared alone on the 30-minute program produced by KET public television and shown across the state.
Northern Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning, the first-term incumbent, skipped the debate. He’s made only one joint appearance with Mongiardo, a state senator from Hazard [...]

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