President Obama has embarked on what could represent a radical departure in America's Mideast policy, at least on settlements.
Children's lives are at risk in swimming pools across the country as government agencies waffle on how to enforce a new federal law, child safety advocates say.
Five former secretaries of state from both parties Monday discussed how they would advise the next president on a wide range of foreign policy, including relations with Russia, Iran and the Middle East.
The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher
The United States needs a new law requiring that the president consult with Congress before going to war, a blue-ribbon panel led by two former secretaries of state said Tuesday.
Former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher say the next time the president goes to war, Congress should be required to say whether it agrees
The uncle of a 12-year-old Vermont girl whose body was found Wednesday was charged with kidnapping, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert
The investigation of a Vermont girl's disappearance has led to charges against her stepfather in a separate case, authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators in Vermont charged the uncle of a missing 12-year-old girl Sunday with sexually assaulting a minor -- but they said the charge does not involve his niece.
President Obama has embarked on what could represent a radical departure in America's Mideast policy, at least on settlements.
Children's lives are at risk in swimming pools across the country as government agencies waffle on how to enforce a new federal law, child safety advocates say.
Five former secretaries of state from both parties Monday discussed how they would advise the next president on a wide range of foreign policy, including relations with Russia, Iran and the Middle East.
The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher
The United States needs a new law requiring that the president consult with Congress before going to war, a blue-ribbon panel led by two former secretaries of state said Tuesday.
Former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher say the next time the president goes to war, Congress should be required to say whether it agrees
The uncle of a 12-year-old Vermont girl whose body was found Wednesday was charged with kidnapping, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
Police unearthed Brooke Bennett's body from a makeshift grave about a mile from her uncle's house, ending a weeklong search for the subject of Vermont's first Amber Alert
The investigation of a Vermont girl's disappearance has led to charges against her stepfather in a separate case, authorities said Tuesday.
Investigators in Vermont charged the uncle of a missing 12-year-old girl Sunday with sexually assaulting a minor -- but they said the charge does not involve his niece.
For a CEO whose PR skills were pitch-perfect for so long, it was a terribly ironic denouement.
BP had serious safety problems at its five U.S. refineries before a 2005 explosion at a Texas plant killed 15 workers, an independent panel reviewing that accident said Tuesday.
The U.S. military said Monday that four American soldiers were killed and three wounded by two roadside bombs Sunday in Baghdad as suspected sectarian violence cost another 51 Iraqis their lives.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani rejected the Iraq Study Group's report Sunday, calling it "very dangerous" to Iraq's sovereignty and constitution.
The chairmen of the Iraq Study Group told a Senate panel Thursday that its report on the "deteriorating situation" in Iraq must be viewed as a whole and not piecemeal.
George Bush has a history of long-overdue U-turns.
President Bush will be in Jordan later this week, where he plans to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Only one in four Americans believe President Bush is a better president than his father, George H. W. Bush, a new CNN poll has found.
Modern bureaucracy is the spine of the modern state.
President Bush on Wednesday discussed the midterm elections and the news that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was stepping down in a White House news conference. The following is a partial transcript of his remarks:
Insurgents shot and killed at least 14 pilgrims from India and Pakistan, one of several attacks in Iraq that have killed a dozen other people during the last 24 hours.
Congress unveiled an independent panel on Wednesday assigned to study the U.S.-led war in Iraq and to make policy recommendations for both Capitol Hill and the White House.
Scientists using nanotechnology have devised a way of delivering cancer drugs that could make them up to 10 times more effective in combating the killer disease.
Most of the time our economic worries are of a comprehensible sort: Jobs are scarce, health-care costs are high, retirement funds are meager. Every month or two, though, we are wrested away from th...
Inside the plain little container I'm looking at may just be our best stopgap against bioterror. Dr. James Baker, chief scientist at the Ann Arbor, Mich., biotech firm NanoBio, holds up the bottle ...
Not so long ago the annual economic summit meetings of the world's richest nations (this year's was in late June in Lyon, France) were a very big deal. They were preceded by drum rolls of newspaper...
Being Treasury Secretary of the U.S. has its rewards. Your signature is printed on the nation's currency, for instance, and you get to work in one of the grandest offices that's ever been built. Be...
WHEN Jean Kovacs comes into the office each day, she dons a little headset and greets her computer with a brisk ''Good morning!'' In response, her Sun workstation lights up its screen. ''Start mail...
WHEN HE STANDS at the blackboard in the renovated schoolhouse that has become his company's headquarters, James K. Baker, the chairman of Arvin Industries, looks like a scholarly small-college pres...
-- TIMOTHY LEARY, 70, once an advocate of tuning in, turning on, and dropping out, on his current trip: ''I am exploring for the first time in my life the amazing wonderland known as senility.''
NOTHING tests a President like a world crisis. The one Saddam Hussein handed George Bush in early August had just about everything: blatant aggression, horrendous economic ramifications, and no eas...
-- BARBARA BUSH, 63, on her role as a fashion trendsetter: ''My mail tells me that a lot of fat, white-haired, wrinkled ladies are tickled pink.''
IF EVER A MAN deserves the title of kingmaker, he is James A. Baker III, the master manager to whom George Bush most owes his status as President-elect. In less than three months, Baker, 58, chairm...
''Here comes the A team!'' rejoiced a GOP politico over the arrival of James Baker III to head the floundering campaign of Vice President George Bush. The Treasury Secretary and longtime Bush advis...
-- MARTIN ANDERSON, 51, former White House policy adviser, on how David Stockman would have described baseball great Ted Williams: ''Even at the height of his career, Williams managed to get base h...
So you've absorbed all there is to know about astrological influences on the Reagan White House. Can you learn anything else from Donald Regan's deadpan but deadly memoir, For the Record: From Wall...
First, Treasury Secretary James A. Baker told Congress that tax increases were not necessary to shrink the U.S. budget deficit. The next day Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said they ...
FOR BETTER or for worse, no one has exerted more influence over the course of the economy in 1987 than James A. Baker III, America's ever pragmatic Treasury Secretary. As other key players, includi...
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We now return to a grievance not mentioned for several years but urgently needing a good groan in the present period. Gripe in question: the media's tendentious use of ''ideologue'' and ''pragmatis...
CONFUSED about the dollar? So are Washington, Wall Street, and financial markets the world over. As the dollar danced the limbo in late October, sometimes dropping more than 1% a day against the ye...
At the center of the Washington vortex, where the budget deficit, taxes, and the dollar swirl into national policy, is Treasury Secretary and stalwart Texan James Baker. He and his new-found ally, ...
As Vietnam was the first war fought on TV, so the crash of 1987 was the first stock market panic to unfold on camera, the first to be instantly communicated visually around the world. It brought ho...
THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK for two of the U.S.'s biggest trading partners, West Germany and Japan, annoys Treasury Secretary James Baker and will fuel the fire under protectionist legislation now before ...
The Tax Reform Act of 1986, perhaps the largest revision of the tax code in U.S. history, was an astonishing event. It took place despite the determined opposition of legions of lobbyists -- and al...
Two days after he announced his blockbuster addition to Citicorp's loan loss reserves, Chairman John Reed discussed the move at length with FORTUNE's Jaclyn Fierman. Excerpts:
THROUGH three-quarters of his presidency, Ronald Reagan appeared to be a manager any chief executive could learn from. Since November he has been a case study of everything to avoid. What happened?...
When Treasury Secretary James Baker proposed solving the foreign debt crisis by sending debtor nations new loans in return for austerity measures, he was too late; it was clear that banks would eve...
If the Secretary of the Treasury publicly groused about the new W-4 tax- withholding form, how is the poor, befuddled taxpayer to cope? Although James Baker's troops are scrambling to simplify the ...
PERHAPS it was inevitable that the dollar would dip and dance like a kite on $ its long glide to earth. Its January dive, the most abrupt fall in the decline that began two years ago, reflected a l...
Is the Senate Finance Committee's tax proposal really ''revenue neutral'' ? Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood would certainly like you to believe that revenue lost (mainly because of lower ta...
When will the cheap dollar be too cheap? As the leaders of the seven major industrial nations gathered in Tokyo for the economic summit, the greenback stood at its postwar low against the yen and a...
MANY U.S. BUSINESSMEN, exporters in particular, would love to see the leaders of the industrial world lock arms and rally around Treasury Secretary James Baker's schemes for global economic coopera...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES on lobbying missions are almost as common as tourists on Capitol Hill. Effective ones are a lot rarer. Here is a list of the best of the bunch, based on interviews with dozens of l...
Latin American nations found fault with Treasury Secretary James A. Baker's plan for solving the Third World debt problem. Meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, ministers of 11 Latin American nations -- ...
BANK LOBBYISTS sometimes think that things haven't changed much in Washington since Andrew Jackson told a visiting delegation of bankers in 1832: ''You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to ...
THOUGH widely hailed as bold and innovative, Treasury Secretary James A. Baker's plan for solving the Third World debt problem won't work. Like the plan in place up to now, this one doesn't face up...
Treasury Secretary James Baker envisions a three-pronged attack on the problems of 15 debt-laden developing countries. On one front he wants the debtor countries to make structural changes in their...
TREASURY SECRETARY James Baker's rescue plan for troubled debtor countries includes a blunt message to their governments. The U.S., he says, is tired of watching less developed countries borrow hug...
James Baker seems to be turning into the most activist U.S. Secretary of the Treasury since his fellow Texan John Connally devalued the dollar for Richard Nixon in 1971. The attack Baker orchestrat...
THE MAKING AND SELLING of economic policy during the first six months of Ronald Reagan's first term seemed as smooth as a Chopin waltz. The first six months of his second term have sounded more lik...
AS TREASURY SECRETARY James Baker puts the finishing touches on the Administration's tax reform proposal, a formidable new coalition is seeking to ambush one of the biggest money raisers in the pla...
THE BUSINESS LOBBY'S ''No, never,'' on tax reform is turning into a ''Well, maybe.'' John M. Albertine, president of the American Business Conference, says, ''Overwhelming business support is not a...
FOR RONALD REAGAN'S second term, chief of staff Donald T. Regan is doing more than putting new names in old boxes on the organizational chart. He's rebuilding the chart to create a streamlined, cor...
President Reagan announced that Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker, ''after four grueling years'' in their current positions, will switch jobs. Regan,...
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