The colon cancer that Tony Snow successfully battled two years ago has returned and spread to the presidential spokesman’s liver and elsewhere. President Bush, struck an optimistic tone that echoed how aides said Snow was feeling.
AT&T Inc.’s Cingular Wireless plans to introduce mobile banking capabilities with four prominent banks, the biggest such initiative in the U.S. but still shy of the industry’s long-discussed goal of turning cell phones into credit cards.
FBI Director Robert Mueller labored Tuesday to persuade skeptical senators that the FBI can properly use its Patriot Act authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists. He appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Justice Department inspector general revealed abuses in the FBI’s use of documents called national security letters to gather such data without approval from a judge.
A senior aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling, announced that she would take the Fifth Amendment about her role in the ousters of eight federal prosecutors to avoid possibly incriminating herself. She questioned the fairness of congressional hearings and said lawmakers already seem to have their minds made up about possible wrongdoing of Bush administration officials.
An Indian court has banned smoking while driving in New Delhi in what is believed to be the first of its kind in any major city worldwide, police said Tuesday. Declaring “New Delhi roads dangerous to human life,” the city’s High Court imposed new measures aimed at deterring habitually bad drivers, including the smoking ban and a prohibition on using mobile phones while behind the wheel.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet every two weeks to discuss day-to-day issues, in a quickening diplomatic pace that could spur talks on a peace settlement.
