Tag: Nation

Cheney, Paul trade criticism over Iraq war

Cheney, Paul trade criticism over Iraq war

Michele Salcedo · June 22, 2014 5:12 pm

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is followed by reporters as he crosses Independence Ave. just after being elected the new majority leader by the Republican Conference, replacing Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., who was defeated in his primary earlier this month, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Conservative Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., is taking McCarthy's place as GOP whip. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Blue-state congressman holds House’s No 2 GOP post

Kevin Freking · June 22, 2014 4:32 pm

President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Obama said the US will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, set up joint operation centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Threat from Iraq militants could grow

Washington Examiner · June 22, 2014 2:21 pm

This photo taken Saturday, June 21, 2014, shows demonstrators protesting outside of the White House in Washington against renewed U.S. involvement in Iraq. In charting a new phase of American military engagement in Iraq on Thursday, President Barack Obama pledged that his war-weary country will not be "dragged back" into a lengthy conflict or become ensnarled in "mission creep." But recent U.S. military history is full of warning signs about the difficulty of keeping even a limited mission from expanding and extending. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama’s test: Try to avoid ‘mission creep’ in Iraq

Julie Pace · June 22, 2014 1:44 pm

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal delivers the keynote address during Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority event in Washington, Saturday, June 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Jindal says rebellion brewing against Washington

Connor Radnovich · June 22, 2014 3:12 am

Transgender priest to preach at National Cathedral

Transgender priest to preach at National Cathedral

Washington Examiner · June 21, 2014 7:09 pm

FILE - In this May 1, 2006, file photo, then-Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., left, speaks with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, after he gave a speech proposing that Iraq be divided into three separate regions during the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia conference in Philadelphia. As Iraq edges toward chaos, Vice President Joe Biden is having a quiet I-told-you-so moment. As a senator in 2006, Biden proposed that Iraq be divided into three semi-independent regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. And he said that his plan would allow U.S. troops to be out by early 2008. Otherwise, he warned, Iraq could fall into sectarian conflict that could destabilize the region. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Iraq crisis offers hint of vindication for Biden

Josh Lederman · June 21, 2014 5:08 pm

FILE - This June 20, 2014, file photo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, arriving for a press briefing for Iranian journalists after the closed-door nuclear talks at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria. After a breakthrough interim agreement last year, the U.S., Iran and other nations are hoping to wrap up a deal with the next month that would curb Iran's nuclear program. Progress on nuclear talks is leading American officials to explore whether Iran can be a useful partner on interests long viewed as shared, such as fighting Sunni extremism and ensuring stability of Iraq. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

US, Iran, longtime enemies, now potential partners

Washington Examiner · June 21, 2014 4:54 pm

FILE -This Dec. 13, 2008 file photo shows victims and their families during a meeting with a U.S. prosecutors in Baghdad, Iraq, to discuss the case against the Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted in the fatal September 2007 shootings of 14 Iraqis in the Baghdad's Nisoor Square. The carnage turned out to be the darkest episode of contractor violence during the war and inflamed anti-American feelings around the world. The trial, which began June 11, 2014, and is expected to last months, could feature the largest group of foreign witnesses ever to travel to the U.S. to participate in a criminal trial, according to the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Orchestrated tales in ex-Blackwater guards’ trial?

Pete Yost · June 21, 2014 4:03 pm

Donors to major parties hand over $625M so far

Donors to major parties hand over $625M so far

Philip Elliott · June 21, 2014 2:40 am

VA: 65 percent of senior executives got bonuses

VA: 65 percent of senior executives got bonuses

Matthew Daly · June 21, 2014 12:39 am

US hits 7 Ukraine rebels with sanctions

US hits 7 Ukraine rebels with sanctions

LARA JAKESMATTHEW LEE · June 21, 2014 12:27 am