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Cheney Facing Deposition: Judge Rules Man Can Sue Secret Service

DENVER -- A Colorado man can sue two Secret Service agents who arrested him after he touched former Vice President Dick Cheney on the arm in 2006 and told him his Iraq War policies were "disgusting," a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling means Steven Howards can try to subpoena Cheney to testify about the...

How Exactly Will the GOP Cut $100 Billion?

House Republicans are promising to cut $100 billion from the federal budget, but they're not quite ready to explain how just yet. What they won't cut is homeland security, the military and services for veterans -- a nice gesture after a decade of war, but one that means the other federal programs, like transportation and...

Rumsfeld Memoir Highlights VIP Access to Government Files

Two days after WikiLeaks began publishing classified diplomatic cables, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped forward to condemn the massive leak, declaring on his Twitter feed, "I was a co-sponsor of [the Freedom of Information Act] in 1966. There is an appropriate, lawful process for declassifying material....

Opinion: START Won't Stop Nuclear Proliferation

(Dec. 10) -- Immediately following last month's election, President Barack Obama renewed his call on the Senate to ratify the New START treaty with Russia in order to "send a signal to the world that we're serious about nonproliferation." The claim that progress in U.S.-Russian arms control will help stop countries like...

US Scraps Color-Coded Terror Alerts

(Nov. 25) -- Late-night TV hosts better get their jokes in quick, before the color-coded terror alert system that's been the topic of so many punch-lines is gone for good. U.S. officials say they're phasing out the five-tiered alert scheme created in 2002 under the Bush administration, after years of criticism from...