Tag: Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks with daughter Malia on the first family's return from vacationing in Hawaii, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

THE RESET: Obama, GOP drawing battle lines

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

MESA, AZ - JUNE 24: An undocumented Guatemalan immigrant, chained for being charged as a criminal, boards a deportation flight to Guatemala City, Guatemala at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport on June 24, 2011 in Mesa, Arizona. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, ICE, repatriates thousands of undocumented Guatemalans monthly, many of whom are caught in the controversial "Secure Communities" data-sharing program which puts local police on the frontlines of national immigration enforcement. ICE recently announced a set of adjustments to the federal program after many local communities and some states, including New York, insisted on opting out, saying immigrants were being deported for minor offenses such as traffic violations. Guatemala ranks only second to Mexico in the number of illegal immigrants deported from the United States. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Federal government spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Virginia uranium mining wins 1st legislative test

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Rocky Gap Lodge wastewater upgrade gets funding

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Oscar host Seth MacFarlane to announce nominations

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Uranium mining takes center stage in Virginia

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, President Barack Obama's choice for CIA director, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, where the president Barack Obama made the announcement. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s CIA pick chose spycraft over priesthood

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This Dec, 18, 2008 file photo shows then-Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel in Omaha, Neb. President Barack Obama will nominate Hagel as his next defense secretary, a senior administration official said Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. The selection of the decorated Vietnam combat veteran sets up a potentially contentious confirmation hearing because Hagel has come under scrutiny from his former colleagues over his positions on Israel and Iran. Some Republicans already have declared their public opposition to Hagel replacing Pentagon chief Leon Panetta in Obama's second-term Cabinet. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver, File)

National Security

Obama taps Chuck Hagel for Pentagon, John Brennan for CIA

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2012, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton poses for photographs before dinner at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore. The State Department said Sundy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will return to work Monday Jan. 7, 2013, a little over a week after she was hospitalized with a blood clot in her head. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Hillary Clinton back at work after hospitalization

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Etty Allen, mother of former Virginia governor, dies

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Virginia agency awards grants to improve boating access

Associated Press · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 01: Gerard Depardieu attends the 'Asterix & Obelix - God Save Britannia' (Im Auftrag Ihrer Majestaet) photocall at Hotel de Rome on October 1, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

French actor Depardieu gets Russian passport

Associated Press · January 6, 2013 5:00 am