By Connie Cass Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan defended his bombshell book about the Bush administration on Thursday, saying he didn't speak up against the overselling of war in Iraq at the time because he, like other Americans, gave the president the benefit of the doubt.

The District of Columbia appellate court Thursday yanked the law license of I. Lewis Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is no longer appealing his conviction in the CIA leak case, a tacit recognition that continuing his legal fight might only make things worse.

What is behind the current epidemic of amnesia aff

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday a pivotal September report on the war in Iraq is likely to show "significant progress" - putting himself ahead of President Bush, who has refused to speculate on what the report will say. Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S.