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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a constitutional challenge to the Bush administration’s military trials for foreign terror suspects, stepping into a high-stakes test of the president’s wartime powers. The court’s intervention is troubling news for the White House, which has been battered by criticism of its …

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jim McDermott asked an appeals court Tuesday to overturn a ruling that he took part in an illegal transaction by providing a taped telephone call to reporters. In arguments that evoked the recent CIA leak case, the appeals court wrestled over whether a federal district court’s 2004 …

British regulators gave the go-ahead Wednesday for Chiron Corp. (search) to resume production of flu vaccine, ending a five-month suspension that caused widespread shortages in the United States. The announcement sent Chiron’s stock soaring almost 10 percent. In October, Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (search) (MHRA) barred the …