Valerie Plame Wilson

Sean Penn's in it, so a big chunk of the public won't go. It's about the Bush administration's outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame (played by Naomi Watts) for political purposes. So the Sean Penn haters will REALLY not want to see it. But Summit has given...

Robert Novak, the longtime syndicated columnist and television commentator who was at the center of a furor late in his career as the first journalist to disclose the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, died Tuesday. He was 78. Novak died at home in...

Robert Novak, the longtime syndicated columnist and television commentator who was at the center of a furor late in his career as the first journalist to disclose the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, died today. He was 78. Novak died at his...

Robert Novak died at the age of 78 today after a bout with brain cancer. The longtime newspaper columnist and television commentator was known for his conservative voice and piercing criticism. In decades of Washington reporting and opinion-shaping,...

The bipartisan summit at Blair House today is garnering a lot of media and public attention. Billed as either the last hope for healthcare reform or as marvelous political theater (complete with high-level negotiations over the shape of the table......

by Mark Silva In the end, it may all come down to the meaning of is. Karl Rove, "architect'' of former President George W. Bush's two election campaigns, is making the rounds with his new book. Courage and Consequence: My......

Let's be clear. Rod Blagojevich is an impeached former governor, facing charges of trying to sell Barack Obama's old Senate seat. The indictment against him -- prepared by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, famous for going after former Cheney chief of staff....

After the coffee. Before realizing Friday marks one year with the L.A. Times. "Kick-Ass" poised to do just that. Lionsgate executives can get a brief reprieve this weekend from investor Carl Icahn's push to take over the studio when its......

Only one American film -- "Fair Game" from Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity") -- numbers among the 16 entries in the official competition of this year's Cannes Film Festival. This politically charged biopic about real-life diplomat Joe Wilson and his...

WASHINGTON - Declaring no one to be above the law, a federal judge sent New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail yesterday for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the disclosure of a CIA agent's identity. The...

There could be no more dramatic reminder of the value to the public of anonymous sources than the disclosure that W. Mark Felt, once the FBI's second-ranking official, was that most mysterious of anonymous sources, "Deep Throat." The revelation came at...

A special prosecutor pleaded with a federal judge yesterday to punish two recalcitrant reporters by sending them to jail, not put them under house arrest as they had hoped. In memos filed with the U.S. District Court in Washington, the prosecutor,...