The decision is likely to be seen as a major repudiation of the Bush administration's effort to use the detention center as a way to avoid scrutiny by judges.

Secretly and at times unconstitutionally, the Bush administration expanded executive power. Will the new president and a new Congress redefine who is in charge?

The financial markets, foreign leaders and even the Bush administration are looking to President-elect Barack Obama for signs of how he will manage the crisis.

BOSTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration handed 125
billion dollars to nine of Wall Street's richest banks, but
this will do little to help the economy that is crumbling around
ordinary U.S. citizens, independent experts and activists say.

Seventeen Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, must be freed and allowed into the United States, a federal judge ruled, dealing a blow to the Bush administration.

If people's homes and livelihoods weren't on the line, says Jefferson Chase, the Bush administration's latest predicament would be funny. Unfortunately, no one's really having any last laughs.

Christopher Hill’s trip to North Korea is widely seen as a last-ditch effort by the Bush administration to salvage an agreement on nuclear disarmament.

SEATTLE, Washington, Sep 27 (IPS) - As the U.S. Congress debates the George W. Bush
administration's proposed massive bailout of the
nation's precarious financial system, the astringent
analysis of economist Dean Baker has enjoyed a high profile in
the news, the opinion pages and the blogosphere.

BOSTON, Sep 26 (IPS) - U.S. lawmakers and the George W. Bush
administration are continuing their closed-door meetings through
the weekend to try and fashion a softer 700-billion-dollar deal
for Wall Street that will appeal to citizens angry at the
prospect of the mega-corporate bailout.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of conservative Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives offered a mortgage insurance plan on Thursday as an alternative to the Bush administration's $700-billion Wall Street bailout.