Timothy J. McNulty

Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese`s early investigation into the Iran-contra affair permitted widespread destruction of evidence that may have prevented the story of the secret operations from ever being fully revealed,...

Ronald Reagan finds himself bedeviled by internal conflict between his conservative ''true believers'' and more pragmatic Republicans who are trying to preserve traditional Republican leadership over the remaining 14 months...

President Reagan chose Douglas Howard Ginsburg, a conservative federal judge, as his new nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday, challenging the Senate to confirm his appointment quickly even though...

Jan Sutton has been a surrogate mother twice. She thinks about those two children fondly, she says, but not with what anyone would call ''mother love.'' ''With the first one,...

It will be seven years next month since Elizabeth Kane gave away her baby boy. In exchange for a $10,000 fee from a couple she barely knew, she handed over...

Reproductive technology, though still nascent and geared toward infertile couples, is moving rapidly into an era of wider commercialization. Sperm is routinely bought for $35 and frozen, then sold and...

The nation`s governors, reflecting a wide eagerness to reshape the welfare system to encourage recipients to find jobs, endorsed Tuesday a $1 billion reform package that is long on enthusiasm...

President Reagan ordered mandatory drug testing for federal employees Monday and sent to Congress his own proposal for new legislation, calling for the death penalty against ''drug kingpins'' in some...

It was half-past three in the afternoon when the White House summoned Rep. Robert Michel (R., Ill.) and other congressional leaders to an urgent meeting with President Reagan. There had...

President Reagan authorized $20 million in emergency military aid to Honduras Tuesday and immediately committed U.S. helicopters and pilots for an airlift of Honduran troops to repel an invasion force...