George Bush News

The bundles of bad home mortgages that panicked the Bush and Obama administrations have turned out to be not so toxic for the financial industry after all.

An interesting conversation may be taking place in the beyond. Envision former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, a brilliant, tormented architect of the Vietnam War, being greeted by a group of souls who died so very, very young in that war.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's thin record on the limits of presidential power suggests she will be neither reflexively hostile to broad expansion of a president's authority nor a reliable rubber stamp in support of it.

Dallas has scaled back some of the police protection it was providing at the home of former President George W. Bush - a cut some said was due to financial constraints.

Spread upon a table are a sampling of gifts to former President George W. Bush : a purse made of vines from the Thai queen, a Texas Rangers jersey autographed by pitcher Nolan Ryan and a framed mosaic of St.

President Barack Obama joined other world leaders on Wednesday in backing new targets for battling global warming, a move the Bush White House had resisted.

Authorities have arrested about 30 people and seized about 200 dogs in dogfighting raids Wednesday across three states, the Justice Department said.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday accepted a U.S.-backed effort by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to mediate an end to the political crisis in Honduras and said talks with his rivals would begin on Thursday.

Former State Department official Tom Schweich opens his run for Missouri auditor with a pledge to scrutinize the state's share of federal stimulus money.

Former Bush White House official Karl Rove was questioned by House Judiciary Committee lawyers Tuesday on any role he may have played in politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys.

The Senate took up a $42.9 billion measure funding homeland security programs on Tuesday as Capitol Hill 's appropriations season revved into high gear.

The George W. Bush Presidential Library will display a curious artifact; Saddam Hussein's pistol.

Reihan Salam, an influential young player in the effort to revive the Republican Party, writes this weekend that Sarah Palin's resignation is another sign of the fading culture wars : What does seem increasingly clear is that Palin's collapse represents the end of a certain kind of politics.

Sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told The Washington Times that the premier is hesitant to request formal U.S. approval to launch military operations against Iran for fear that Washington would turn him down, according to a report which appeared in Tuesday editions.

Stem cell research in the U.S. will expand under rules that allow federal government funding for scientists working with unused embryos created at fertility clinics, freeing hundreds of cell lines for study.

US AMBITIONS to send astronauts back to the moon as a prelude to missions to Mars have been put in doubt by budgetary constraints 40 years after man's triumphant landing on Earth's nearest neighbour.

One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's potential presidential rivals says her abrupt resignation won't allow her to dodge scrutiny over her family.

Many American presidents have kept prized possessions within reach during their White House years.

Biden's remarks suggested a tougher U.S. stance against Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Israel is deporting a former U.S. congresswoman, a Nobel peace prize laureate and other activists who were arrested trying to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, a government spokeswoman said Monday.