BY ANDREW C. REVKIN AND CLIFFORD KRAUSS
New York Times

To the naked eye, there was nothing to be seen at a natural gas well in eastern Texas but beige pipes and tanks baking in the sun.

But in the viewfinder of Terry…

BY CHARLIE SAVAGE
New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric Holder is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life,…

BY JULIA PRESTON
New York Times

After early pledges by President Barack Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration’s tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is pursuing an aggressive strategy for an illegal-immigration crackdown that relies significantly on programs started…

By Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Despite the Bush administration’s insistence that its warrantless eavesdropping program was necessary to protect the country from another terrorist attack, FBI agents, CIA analysts and other officials had difficulty evaluating its effectiveness, according to…