By DAVID E. SANGER

Executive privilege is often asserted as an inviolate principle in the Bush White House. Until the pressure starts.

By ROBERT PEAR

The Senate voted for a significant increase in money to provide child care to welfare recipients and other low-income families.

By TODD S. PURDUM

Ralph Nader, who plans to raise at least $15 million for his campaign, said he will take votes from disaffected Republicans.

By MARIA NEWMAN

The outpatient surgery to repair a minor shoulder injury that will keep Senator John Kerry off the presidential campaign trail for the rest of the week.

By LINDA GREENHOUSE

The court ruled that the release of the death-scene photographs would be an unwarranted invasion of the privacy of Vincent W. Foster's surviving family members.

By DOUGLAS JEHL

Charles A. Duelfer acknowledged that U.S. inspectors had still not found any evidence of an illicit arsenal.

By EDMUND L. ANDREWS

The White House said the practice of exporting work overseas has little to do with the loss of jobs in the United States.

By CARL HULSE

The conservative author of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act predicted that the current law would survive court challenges.

By MATTHEW L. WALD

In an effort to revive the nuclear reactor construction industry, seven major companies say that they will apply for a license to build a new commercial power plant.

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

House Republican leaders barely defeated a nonbinding resolution favoring new restrictions on future tax cuts that are the centerpiece of President Bush's economic program.

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and STUART ELLIOTT

The N.A.A.C.P. and lawmakers from both parties are complaining that proposed changes in how Nielsen gathers local television ratings will drastically undercount the number of black and Hispanic viewers.

By JACQUES STEINBERG

Air America, which makes its debut on Wednesday with Al Franken at the microphone, intends to challenge the hegemony of conservatives on commercial talk radio.

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN

The Bush administration is still looking for an ambassador to replace L. Paul Bremer III as the chief U.S. political presence in Baghdad.

By PHILIP SHENON and ELISABETH BUMILLER

President Bush bowed agreed to allow Condoleezza Rice to testify in public and under oath before the 9/11 panel.

By NEIL A. LEWIS

The doctrine of executive privilege is widely viewed as one of the most ambiguous concepts in constitutional law.

By ADAM LIPTAK

In addition, the precise status of false statements made to the 9/11 commission, whether under oath or not, is clouded by its hybrid nature.

By JODI WILGOREN

John Kerry blamed the Bush administration's energy policies on Tuesday for the nation's rising fuel costs.

By LINDA GREENHOUSE

The growing use of the the Alien Tort Statute has alarmed the international business community, which has seen several lawsuits brought against multinationals for their practices abroad.