Deb Riechmann

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President Barack Obama smiles after signing an executive order to improve security measures for government credit and debit cards during an event at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama’s under-used credit card declined in NY

Deb Riechmann · October 17, 2014 7:49 pm

Health workers dressed in protective gear prepare to load the body of a woman suspected to have died from Ebola virus, in New Kru Town at the outskirt of Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Liberia has been among the hardest hit nations at the centre of the long outbreak, which has killed more than 3,000 people, as of Friday, there had been 3,834 confirmed Ebola cases and 2,069 deaths in Liberia, according to the World Health Organization. Forty-four percent of the Ebola cases were reported in the past three weeks, a signal that the infectious disease is spreading.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Report: Cost of Ebola could top $32 billion

Deb Riechmann · October 8, 2014 3:56 pm

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, accompanied by Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, briefs reporters at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, on the military health care system. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Hagel: Military medical system ‘average’

Deb Riechmann · October 1, 2014 9:46 pm

Treasury targets those tied to Pakistan extremists

Deb Riechmann · September 30, 2014 2:38 pm

An Afghan boy prepares a banner of Afghan president-elect, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, next to a banner of outgoing President Hamid Karzai during his first public appearance since winning the election runoff in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, Afghanistan's new president-elect says he wants Afghan women represented at the highest levels of government, and he pledged to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

Next Afghan leader seeks influence in Washington

Deb Riechmann · September 23, 2014 4:57 pm

FILE - This March 23, 2008, file photo, provided by the Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office shows Douglas McAuthur McCain. McCain, 33, of suburban Minneapolis, was killed this year in Syria fighting with the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office, File)

National Security

A look at American jihadis: Why do they fight?

Deb Riechmann · September 20, 2014 9:27 pm

Ukrainian president asks US for military aid

Deb Riechmann · September 18, 2014 2:55 pm

Ex-US diplomat Khalilzad contests financial probe

Deb Riechmann · September 8, 2014 8:46 pm

FILE - This April 30, 2014 file photo shows Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers standing guard during a military exercise on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan National Security Forces depend exclusively on billions of dollars in funding from the US and its allies, money that is now at risk after President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a security agreement to keep a small U.S. force of trainers in the country after the NATO-led coalition ends its mission and withdraws at the end of the year. Alongside the exodus of US troops from Afghanistan before the end of the year, soldiers who hail from countries like Singapore and Slovenia, Mongolia and Malaysia have been packing up too, leaving behind an ever-shrinking NATO coalition. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Afghanistan’s NATO coalition shrinking fast

Deb Riechmann · September 3, 2014 7:06 am

FILE - This April 30, 2014 file photo shows Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers standing guard during a military exercise on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan National Security Forces depend exclusively on billions of dollars in funding from the US and its allies, money that is now at risk after President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign a security agreement to keep a small U.S. force of trainers in the country after the NATO-led coalition ends its mission and withdraws at the end of the year. Alongside the exodus of US troops from Afghanistan before the end of the year, soldiers who hail from countries like Singapore and Slovenia, Mongolia and Malaysia have been packing up too, leaving behind an ever-shrinking NATO coalition. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

National Security

NATO coalition in Afghanistan shrinking

Deb Riechmann · September 2, 2014 10:44 pm

US sanctions firms, individuals for aiding Iran

Deb Riechmann · August 29, 2014 5:42 pm

President Barack Obama gestures in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, where he spoke about the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A look at US, European sanctions on Russia

Deb Riechmann · August 28, 2014 9:24 pm