Casper Willard Weinberger (born 1917) served in the administrations of three U.S. presidents, as director of the Office of Management and Budget, as secretary of health, education and welfare, and as secretary of defense. He was noted for His...

William Crowe, an Annapolis-trained submarine officer who rose to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served as ambassador to Britain, has died at age 82.The retired admiral died early Thursday at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the Navy announced. No cause of death was released...

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has hired a prominent attorney as he fights to keep his job, in jeopardy for arranging a generous compensation package for a bank employee with whom he has been romantically linked."I want to be sure that he receives appropriate treatment...

The latest twist in the CIA leak scandal has Vice President Dick Cheney saying he hopes his former chief of staff, now sentenced to 30 months in prison, will eventually get off.And that, legal experts say, is an odd statement for a vice president to...

Richard Nixon. Mark Felt. Caspar Weinberger. Marc Rich. Is President Bush willing to risk _ on behalf of ex-White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby _ the kind of political grief that pardons for those four men brought the presidents who granted them?Nixon resigned the...