Tag: Associated Press

This satellite image provided by TerraServer.com and DigitalGlobe shows an image captured on Sept. 2, 2010, shows a portion of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the secret facility known as Penny Lane, upper middle in white. In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned a handful of prisoners at the secret facility into double agents and released them. Current and former U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the program helped kill terrorists. The program was carried out in the secret facility, built a few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the prison in Guantanamo Bay, bottom of image. The eight small cottages were hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus. (AP Photo/TerraServer.com and DigitalGlobe)

National Security

Penny Lane: Gitmo’s other secret CIA facility

adam-goldman · November 26, 2013 8:42 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday said he would not sign the bill that passed the Senate because its benefits are too generous. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Immigrant tuition bill will go to Chris Christie ‘as is’

Associated Press · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

In this March 16, 2011, file photo, a security fence surrounds the inmate housing on New York's Rikers Island correctional facility in New York. New York City has sued the correction officers' union for what it says was an illegal strike at Rikers Island last week.

NYC files suit against correction officers’ union

Washington Examiner · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 photo, skycap Biniyam Yehuala hefts a traveler's bag at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. A campaign to set a $15 minimum wage in the city of SeaTac is poised for victory. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Washington wage initiative appears poised for victory

Mike Baker · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows customer at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Supreme Court has agreed to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said Tuesday they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly 40 lawsuits from for-profit companies asking to be spared from having to cover some or all forms of contraception. The court will consider two cases. One involves Hobby Lobby Inc., an Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts chain with 13,000 full-time employees. Hobby Lobby won in the lower courts. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Supreme Court will take up new health law dispute

Mark Sherman · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

NY making $4.5M more grants for food banks

Associated Press · November 26, 2013 5:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Newest U.S.S. ship to be helmed by…Captain James Kirk

Katie LaPotin · November 25, 2013 8:26 pm

Gov. Bill Haslam conducts budget hearings at the state Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. (AP/Erik Schelzig)

Gov. Bill Haslam to hold final public budget hearing Monday

Associated Press · November 25, 2013 5:00 am

Newtown's first selectwoman says the next few weeks will be difficult and she is asking residents to quietly mark the anniversary of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School by coming together and supporting local businesses. (AP Photo)

First selectwoman: Tough weeks ahead for Newtown

Associated Press · November 25, 2013 5:00 am

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum looks at corn plants during a tour of Pioneer Hi-Bred Carver Center in Johnston, Iowa. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Energy and Environment

Iowans worry about ethanol’s lost political clout

Thomas Beaumont · November 25, 2013 5:00 am

Many educators are opposed to the evaluation system, and three Democratic legislators joined with a teachers union and educators in seeking a court ruling to block implementation.

Judge refuses to block NM teacher evaluation plan

Associated Press · November 25, 2013 5:00 am

University of Florida Law School courtyard at night.
Photo by Ray Carson - UF News Bureau
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Miami law students call for more access to detainees

Associated Press · November 25, 2013 5:00 am