Tag: Nation

FILE - This May 25, 2014, file photo shows President Barack Obama as he is briefed by Marine General Joseph Dunford, commander of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), right, after arriving at Bagram Air Field for an unannounced visit north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan election crisis and unraveling of Iraq has lawmakers and others thinking President Barack Obama should re-think his decision to withdrawal virtually all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the close of 2016. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

National Security

Unease in Congress, region over Obama Afghan plan

Deb Riechmann · July 19, 2014 5:17 pm

National Security

For Obama, foreign crises grow more challenging

Julie Pace · July 19, 2014 4:08 pm

Protesters gather outside the Mexican Consulate, Friday, July 18, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Prospects for action on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis faded Thursday as lawmakers traded accusations rather than solutions, raising chances that Congress will go into its summer recess without doing anything about the tens of thousands of migrant children streaming into South Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Flow of child immigrants at border slowing for now

Alicia Caldwell · July 19, 2014 2:22 am

President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Ukraine, Friday, July 18, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The president said one American was killed on the plane over Ukraine, and the airliner was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US building case tying separatists to plane crash

Julie Pace · July 18, 2014 11:17 pm

Clinton papers: Iraq, bin Laden and Supreme Court

Ken Thomas · July 18, 2014 10:50 pm

Central American leaders to meet with Obama

Central American leaders to meet with Obama

Jim Kuhnhenn · July 18, 2014 10:46 pm

FILE - This July 14, 2014 file photo shows Attorney General Eric Holder speaking at the Justice Department in Washington. Tens of thousands of federal inmates serving time for drug crimes would be eligible for early release under a proposal being considered Friday that would dramatically reduce the nation's prison population over time. The change is part of a broader rethinking of criminal justice policy that the Justice Department, under Holder, has embraced. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Panel supports early release for 46K drug felons

Eric Tucker · July 18, 2014 9:51 pm

FDA: Powdered caffeine can be lethal

FDA: Powdered caffeine can be lethal

mary-clare, jalonickann-sanner · July 18, 2014 9:45 pm

Obamas to spend rare weekend at Camp David retreat

Obamas to spend rare weekend at Camp David retreat

Jim Kuhnhenn · July 18, 2014 9:20 pm

IRS says hard drive that lost emails destroyed

IRS says hard drive that lost emails destroyed

Stephen Ohlemacher · July 18, 2014 9:09 pm

Obama to sign orders protecting gay employees

Obama to sign orders protecting gay employees

Nedra Pickler · July 18, 2014 7:47 pm

15 percent of Syrian sarin chemicals destroyed

15 percent of Syrian sarin chemicals destroyed

Lolita Baldor · July 18, 2014 7:35 pm