Behind battle over drug prices, quiet money from Big Pharma
Nothing about a Washington state lawsuit called B.E. v. Teeter is as simple as it seems. It was filed this year by two hepatitis C patients against the state's Medicaid...
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Supplying organic fix to U.S. pays off for Brazil
Growing up on his family's sugar plantation, Leontino Balbo slept like a dream. The hard work, fresh air and lullaby of the sugar mill's machinery brought him peace. Years later,...
A demand for `transparency’
Driven by her evangelical Christian beliefs, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has left an impression that she holds anti-abortion views, and on Wednesday groups that support abortion rights expressed concern...
Top FEMA leaders short on experience
Top officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have strong political connections to President Bush, but they also share at least one other trait: They had little or no experience...
Ex-officials say weakened FEMA botched response
Government disaster officials had an action plan if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. They simply didn't execute it when Hurricane Katrina struck. Thirteen months before Katrina hit New Orleans,...
Loss of 2nd female voice is seen as cause for concern
President Bush's nomination of Judge John Roberts Jr. to the Supreme Court left America's first female justice among the American women who felt at least slightly let down. "I am...
Hoosier roots, a `solid Midwest guy’
When President Bush nominated John Roberts Jr. as a federal appeals court judge two years ago, the star lawyer became a sort of poster boy for what Republicans thought was...
Bush nominates Roberts
When President Bush nominated John Roberts Jr. as a federal appeals court judge two years ago, the Washington lawyer found himself in the middle of a political storm--not a hurricane,...
No change in Japan ban on U.S. beef
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that she could offer few words of optimism for U.S. cattle producers or deliver a reasonable prediction of when Japan would lift its...
High court OKs beef checkoff
As far as the National Cattlemen's Beef Association is concerned, Monday was a good day for beef at the U.S. Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Antonin...