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In the starkest cases, prosecutors have transported foreign defendants accused of bribery schemes from overseas military bases to the U.S. to face trial. But legal experts are balking at these strong-arm tactics that are designed for terrorism cases -- and what they say is a misuse of U.S. law enforcement resources.

It's been a busy season for celebrity memoirs. A-listers from the worlds of Hollywood, music, journalism and royalty dish their own stories in these recent and upcoming books.

The decision likely means that the returns will be released to the Committee immediately, ending a multi-year legal battle.

Lt. DeWayne Smith served as a supervisor on the now-deactivated SCORPION unit — the specialized police unit responsible for conducting the traffic stop that ultimately lead to Nichols' death.

President Biden spoke this morning about the government's efforts to protect the banking system, after two regional banks collapsed in recent days.

The singer-songwriter's new book is an unconventional rock memoir that doesn't hew to the genre's norms. And like her entire musical catalog, it's honest and original.

Using excerpts from letters and diaries, historian and critic Bill Goldstein follows writers Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot through the tumultuous literary year of 1922.

Economic data out of China suggest that the world's fastest growing economy is slowing down, just as the rest of the world is counting on it to maintain growth. Inflation in China fell to 4 percent last month, marking a 16-month low. The government responded this week with a nearly $600 billion spending plan to rev up the economy.

President Bush flew Karl Rove back to Texas aboard Air Force One after announcing his resignation from the White House staff. Rove has been the closest adviser to President Bush since the future president was considering running for governor of Texas.

Congress is finishing up a massive farm bill that will set U.S. policy for the next five years. Among other things, it funds the food aid program, which is sending half as much food to hungry people around the world as it used to. Critics say this is a life-and-death matter.