Feds say House Speaker not under probe
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The Justice Department twice denied news reports Wednesday that it was investigating House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chief Executive Mark Hurd is not expected to face charges when California's attorney general seeks indictments over a boardroom leak probe, BusinessWeek reported in its online edition on Wednesday.
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Republican U.S. House leaders faced mounting pressure over a congressional sex scandal on Tuesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert rejecting calls to step down for his handling of sexual messages sent to teen-age boys by Rep. Mark Foley.
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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay should not be untouchable. The powerful Texas Republican has wiggled out of ethics investigations before, but not this time.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chief  Executive Mark Hurd is not expected to face charges when  California's attorney general seeks indictments over a  boardroom leak probe, BusinessWeek reported in its online  edition on Wednesday.
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US lawmaker William Jefferson, accused of hiding $90,000 in his freezer,  pleads not guilty to soliciting bribes.
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The House ethics committee has determined that a trip to South Korea that two Republican congressmen cut short did not violate House travel rules.
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Preprinted absentee ballots that list resigned Rep. Mark Foley as a candidate will not include an explanation that he withdrew from the race, election supervisors said.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The House of Commons should not waive the legal privilege that protects a key witness at the federal sponsorship inquiry, a panel of MPs recommended Thursday.
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KB Home, the No. 5 U.S. home builder, said on Friday the Justice Department was looking into past stock options practices at KB, but added the agency said KB was not a target of the investigation.
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The Democratic-led House of  Representatives defied President George W. Bush on Friday and  recessed without replacing an expiring spy law with one that  would shield telephone companies from lawsuits.
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The White House tried to distance President Bush from any political backlash from the page sex scandal Thursday, saying House Republicans were dealing with the matter and do not need to be told what to do.
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A spokesman from the California attorney general's office Friday said that Attorney General Bill Lockyer at this point does not have any evidence to charge Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd with a criminal offense in the ongoing investigation intoÂ HP's probe of journalists and board members.
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A House ethics panel concluded that Republicans failed to adequately respond to early warnings about a lawmaker blamed for the Internet sex scandal that shook the U.S. Congress this year, a source said on Friday.
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CBS won&#39;t have to worry about the House Commerce Committee poking around its handling of memos alleging that President Bush disobeyed
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A Louisiana legislator said Wednesday he is being investigated by the FBI and claimed it may be because he wouldn't give agents information about possible wrongdoing by Rep. William Jefferson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.
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By Paul Elias  SAN FRANCISCO  --  Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board adjourned an emergency phone conference Sunday without announcing whether it would oust Chairwoman Patricia Dunn for ordering an investigation that may have used illegal means to spy on colleagues and journalists.