U.S. Government News

FCC plans to go through with DTV test in NC

AP - Fri Sep 5, 8:23 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Friday that he is unlikely to delay plans for an important test in North Carolina that could disrupt television service for some viewers in the path of Tropical Storm Hanna.

  • FAA investigating 11 air carriers on safety issues AP - Fri Sep 5, 6:12 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Federal aviation officials said Friday they are investigating 17 cases in which 11 air carriers did not comply with government safety directives.

  • Guests on Sunday TV news shows AP - Fri Sep 5, 5:56 PM ET

    Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

  • Man with explosive device detained near US Capitol AP - Fri Sep 5, 5:38 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Capitol Police arrested a man Friday after they found a grenade and several weapons in his car several blocks from the Capitol building.

  • Bush aide's House testimony temporarily halted AP - Fri Sep 5, 3:31 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has blocked former White House counsel Harriet Miers from testifying about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys until judges decide whether they have authority to wade into a battle that pits Congress against the Bush administration.

  • In this Jan. 3, 2006 file photo, lobbyist Jack Abramoff leaves Federal Court in Washington. From the time Jack Abramoff began cooperating with the FBI, the once powerful lobbyist knew the day would come when he would have to answer for a lifestyle of trading expensive gifts for political favors. 'I have been thinking about this moment literally for years,' the disgraced power broker wrote a federal judge Wednesday about his sentencing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
    'Broken man' Abramoff gets 4 years in prison AP - Fri Sep 5, 7:34 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Broken and disgraced, lobbyist Jack Abramoff will spend four years in prison for his role in a corruption scandal that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republicans' loss of Congress in 2006.

  • Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff leaves the courthouse in Miami August 18, 2005. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
    People convicted in the Abramoff investigation AP - Fri Sep 5, 3:25 AM ET

    Lawmakers, lobbyists, Bush administration officials, congressional staffers and businessmen caught up in the Jack Abramoff public corruption probe:

  • This image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the back of a carrier card for Duck Stamps. People calling a federal phone number on the card, seeking information on how to order Duck Stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error that the government says would be too expensive to correct. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
    Duck Stamp error sends callers to sex line AP - Thu Sep 4, 5:35 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - People calling a federal phone number to order duck stamps are instead greeted by a phone-sex line, due to a printing error the government says would be too expensive to correct.

  • EPA limits lawnmower emissions to stem pollution AP - Thu Sep 4, 3:20 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Gasoline-powered lawnmowers that are a big cause of summertime air pollution will have to be dramatically cleaner under rules issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

  • Richard Speights, superintendent of drilling at Raser Technologies' Thermo geothermal power plant, looks at steam escaping from a well in Minersville, Utah, August 27, 2008. (Nichola Groom/Reuters)
    Justice asked to weigh charges in Utah mine deaths AP - Wed Sep 3, 7:11 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Federal mining officials have asked prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges are warranted in the death of nine people in last year's collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah.

  • EPA: Transportation Dept off base on fuel estimate AP - Tue Sep 2, 6:27 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency says another arm of the Bush administration may be low-balling the economic benefits of increasing fuel economy standards for cars and trucks.

  • EPA vetoes Miss. Delta flood control project AP - Tue Sep 2, 3:20 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency killed a federal plan nearly seven decades-in-the-making to build the world's largest water pump in the Mississippi River Delta.

  • Debra Peterson comforts her granddaughters as they wait in their car to return to New Orleans in Slidell, La., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. Peterson and her grandchildren evacuated New Orleans to escape Hurricane Gustav. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
    Gustav revives question: Is New Orleans worth it? AP - Tue Sep 2, 10:10 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane Gustav is proof that the billions of dollars spent to protect the city and bring it back to life after the devastating 2005 storm season was worth it.