Bush friend inked Iraq oil deal

The State Department on Thursday denied charges by a House committee that it inappropriately encouraged a Texas-based oil company to strike an exploration deal with the Kurdish government in Iraq. Hunt Oil Co.'s contract with the Kurds, reached last ...

Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) says that papers "show that administration officials knew about Hunt Oil's interest in the Kurdish region months in advance, contradicting claims that administration officials were caught off-guard, and opposed Hunt Oil's ...

US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain shook up his campaign braintrust on Wednesday, on the second day of a two-nation Latin America tour designed to showcase his foreign policy spurs. Mr McCain put his senior adviser Steve Schmidt, a hard-...

The French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three American military contractors were among those freed. The contractors had been captured since 2003 after their surveillance plane crashed in the Colombian jungle. After an emotional return ...