WASHINGTON – Reports this week reiterating President Bush’s willingness to endorse Palestinian statehood have drawn predictably heated responses from both sides of the Middle East conflict — heartening Arab leaders but angering Israel’s friends in Washington. Reports surfaced Tuesday, the day Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld departed for a coalition-building …

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Before the dust settled on the ruins of the World Trade Center, authorities began an intense, far-reaching investigation that seemed to center on one area — not New York, but the community just across the river: northern New Jersey. Six of the suspected hijackers lived at …

Francis Ford Coppola | Sex, Lies and Videotape | Planet of the Apes | Judy Clay Godfather Director Sees the Future, and Will Film It For my money, Francis Ford Coppola is probably our greatest living director, if only for the first two Godfather movies and Apocalypse Now. There’s plenty …

George Clooney | Michael Jackson | Britney Spears Clooney and Pals Party the Night Away Newly minted director George Clooneyand some members of his cast from Confessions of a Dangerous Mind hunkered down for some good-natured hard partying last night. And why not? They’re about to leave town for five …

The federal health nannies worry we’re too fat. So the surgeon general this week issued a “call to action” against overweight and obesity. “Thin is in” no longer is the slogan of a hip lifestyle — it’s government policy. But “thin” also describes the science and rationale behind the federal …

WASHINGTON – By a significant margin, the House of Representatives passed Thursday the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,” which would make it a federal crime to harm or kill a fetus during any one of 68 crimes committed against a pregnant woman, regardless of whether either the mother or the …

The Talking Points memo this evening is about the Jenna Bush situation. Most of us in the media don’t like covering stories like this one because we really don’t know what’s going on, and I remember, when I was 19 years old, it wasn’t pretty. So we first ignored the …

As both the nation’s weather and its ongoing debate over energy policy heat up, some supporters of President Bush’s energy plan have formed a coalition to fight off criticism from the environmental community. “In case you haven’t looked around yet or read the headlines, we are in a serious pickle,” …

Biotechnology is a far more exact tool than traditional “cross your fingers and hope for the best” cross-breeding techniques. But opponents of food biotechnology try hard to scare the public about the “unknown” consequences of altering the genetic makeup of agricultural crops. Much more is known about biotechnology than opponents …

When NASA’s shuttle Atlantis launches towards the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, the 100-ton rocket ship will ferry the high-flying laboratory’s next U.S. crewmember into orbit. Riding up to the ISS with Atlantis’ STS-117 crew will be NASA spaceflyer Clayton Anderson, a late addition to the mission who will replace …