Medical and legal experts are now questioning whether military doctors violated professional ethics while monitoring harsh interrogation techniques described in the C.I.A. inspector general's report released yesterday by the Obama administration.

The report, written in 2004 by Inspector General John L. Helgerson, outlines brutal interrogation techniques, such as choking, shackling...

Ninety-one-year-old Aline Johnson has been told by doctors she is dying of congestive heart failure. She rarely leaves the bed of her house in Queens, N.Y., and her voice creaks like a porch door as she speaks, flirting with the uppermost registers. Since being admitted into hospice care a year...

Down the street from Sol Supermarket, across from Sandro's Rubber Company and J&H Auto Body, Mark Florentino sips coffee with five friends at New Colony Diner, in Bridgeport, Conn. The men, all over 70, are discussing the Southwestern Connecticut Congressional race between Republican incumbent Christopher Shays, who has served the...

Dave Nona is an Iraqi-American living the immigrant dream. After arriving from Baghdad in 1968, Nona, now 60, owns a house and two cars, sends his three kids to private school and runs a construction-development business with two of his six brothers in West Bloomfield, Mich. Like most Republicans, he...