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EPA Proposal Would Ease Clean-Air Rules for National Parks The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, even though half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators formally dissented from the... Automakers Press High-Stakes Plea for Aid The chieftains of Detroit's Big Three automakers made a desperate appeal to skeptical lawmakers yesterday for $25 billion in emergency loans to forestall the possible collapse of the domestic auto industry, offering to cut their own salaries in exchange for government aid. Lawmakers Blast Paulson's Management of Bailout Lawmakers accused Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. yesterday of haphazardly managing the $700 billion financial rescue, as fault lines widened over what the government should try next to contain the fallout of the financial crisis. Former Prosecutor Eric Holder Called Obama's Top Pick for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama's campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next U.S. attorney general, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice. Naming National Security Team Will Be a Priority for Obama If President-elect Barack Obama follows the pattern of most of his modern predecessors, one of the first documents to bear his signature after he takes office will be a directive laying out his administration's national security structure. Bill Clinton signed one his first day in office; George W.... Candidates for Obama's National Security Adviser Gen. James L. Jones Current job : President and chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy Vice President Cheney and Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Have Been Indicted by a Texas Grand Jury on Charges Involving Federal Prisons McALLEN, Tex., Nov. 18 -- Vice President Cheney and former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor. Melamine, Lead and Other Scares Lead FDA to Send Safety Inspectors to China BEIJING, Nov. 18 -- Under fire for not having the resources to better protect consumers at home, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is deploying staff members abroad to work directly with importers and foreign regulatory agencies to guard against contaminated animal feed, counterfeit drugs, to... Closing Guantanamo Bay Prison Could Mean the Release of Yemenis Who Are Unrepentant Terrorists The single biggest opportunity -- and potential difficulty -- for the incoming administration's plan to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, comes from the same group of Yemeni prisoners, who make up fully 40 percent of the detainees still held there. Holiday Travel Expected to Drop President Bush trekked to the Transportation Department yesterday to outline the steps the White House was taking to curb air traffic hassles during the busy holiday travel season.

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