Washington D.C.

Healthcare

House asks for help as faulty DC website delays Obamacare enrollment for members, staff

David M. Drucker -

December 4, 2013 5:00 am

President Obama used a speech at a liberal think tank in Washington to declare that he will focus all of his administration's efforts in his remaining three-plus years in office to reducing inequality in America. (AP/ Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

Obama: Reducing inequality will be focus of ‘rest of my presidency’

Byron York -

December 4, 2013 5:00 am

According to Payscale.com, Walmart's cashiers on average make between $7.50 and $10.77 and sales associates make between $7.63 and $11.83. (AP File)

Columnists

How D.C.’s effort to raise the minimum wage helps Walmart

Sean Higgins -

December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Popcorn, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, from Badger, Minn., stands on the North Portico at the White House in Washington, before being pardoned by President Barack Obama, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. This is the 66th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation by the President. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Politics

Obama grants Popcorn coveted Thanksgiving pardon

Brian Hughes -

November 27, 2013 5:00 am

Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. (Examiner file photo)

Education

GAO fails to account for success of school choice

Virginia Walden Ford, Lindsey Burke -

November 25, 2013 5:00 am

National Security

Obscure donor funds group behind Edward Snowden bus ads

Mark Tapscott -

November 22, 2013 5:00 am

Vice President Joe Biden carries a bag full of food as he talks with reporters outside Capriotti's Sandwich Shop in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. He entered the 2020 race today and already leads in Wisconsin.

News

Joe Biden welcomes Delaware-born sandwich shop to DC

Josh Lederman -

November 21, 2013 6:18 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, performs a mock swearing in for Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., right, on Capitol Hill in Washington as the 113th Congress began. Meng, a freshman Democrat representing the New York City borough of Queens, was hit in the head and robbed in Washington on Nov. 19, but was not seriously injured and is back to work. Meng said that she suffered a bruise on her chin and scratches on her arm and knee in the attack Tuesday night near Eastern Market in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Crime

New York Congresswoman Grace Meng mugged in DC

BEN NUCKOLSHENRY C. JACKSON -

November 21, 2013 10:51 am

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., referred to the federal government as a large business during a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Beltway Confidential

D.C. Obamacare head: ‘Congress gets the same treatment as all small businesses’

Joel Gehrke -

November 20, 2013 5:00 am

Richmond Emergency Food Bank volunteer Abdul Olorode packs boxes with food to be handed out to needy people on Nov. 1, 2013 in Richmond, Calif. An estimated 47 million Americans saw their food stamp benefits cut as temporary relief to the federal program ends with no new budget from Congress to replace it. Under the new Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program, a family of four that used to receive $668 per month will see that amount cut by $36. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Food stamp costs swelled by states spending $1 on heating aid

Bloomberg News -

November 20, 2013 5:00 am

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