Christine Pelisek

President George W. Bush has big plans for two Republicans who earned their stripes impeaching former President Bill Clinton. One of them is associate White House counsel Brett Kavanaugh, who authored the portion of the “Starr Report” affirming the legality of the impeachment. He also helped prosecutor Kenneth Starr force......

A Web surfer interested in making a bomb or taking part in other extra-illegal activities would not have to rely on Raisethefist.com. Similar sites are all over the Net and, if they’re offshore, they’re beyond the reach of U.S. authorities. Most of this information can be legally obtained through a......

President Bush is right: There is a difference between us and the bad guys. For one thing, the bad guys will torture you. And we . . . well, actually, we might torture you, too, but we’re nicer about it. And that’s what counts. And if something does go wrong......

The case of the Beverly Hills High oil wells has taken another startling turn. The Weekly has learned that a family has come forward to allege that its children may have been harmed by a previously overlooked risk: radiation emitted by oil wells on campus. The Beverly Hills school district......

Illustrations by Juan Alvarado • Number of al Qaeda or allied terror suspects arrested by officials since 9/11: 2,700. • Number of U.S. citizens indicted by a federal grand jury for al Qaeda–related activities: 5. • Number of immigrants detained after 9/11 — some up to eight months: 762. •......

Illustration by Juan Alvarado Libraries throughout Southern California are quietly but determinedly fighting against the federal law that makes it easier for authorities to find out what patrons are reading. In Santa Monica, librarians have posted signs warning readers that: “The FBI has the right to obtain a court order......

The White House is taking yet another stab at bolstering President Bush’s image — with the help of Hollywood. Last spring, Showtime cable network began filming a two-hour TV movie re-creating the scene in the White House after 9/11. We find Bush on Air Force One demanding that the pilot......

In the quiet neighborhood below the Hollywood sign, on the evening of April 5, the first street robbery in what would become a string of nine more and three home invasions occurred. A 43-year-old man robbed at gunpoint while he sat in his car at a stop sign on Cheremoya......

The argument for the war in Iraq unraveled some more last week when claims surfaced that Iraq’s attempts to buy uranium from Niger were false and the administration knew it. In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush charged that one of the main justifications for war......

Last week President Bush pledged to “reveal the truth” about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Until then, the media are doing it for him. U.S. News and World Report tells how Secretary of State Colin Powell was under pressure to add dubious intelligence to his February 5 speech to......