Tag: Nation

President Barack Obama applauds Victoria Bellucci, a 2014 graduate of Huntingtown High Shool in Huntingtown, Md., who suffered five concussions playing soccer, Thursday, May 29, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, during the White House Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit. Obama was hosting a summit with representatives of professional sports leagues, coaches, parents, young athletes, researchers and others to call attention to the issue of youth sports concussions. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama says sports concussions need more attention

Darlene Superville · May 29, 2014 10:39 pm

FILE - This May 13, 2014 file shows a North Lenoir, N.C. firefighter taking equipment back to the truck after a woman, pinned in her white vehicle, was rescued by the jaws of life, in Kinston, N.C. The economic and societal harm from motor vehicle crashes amounted to a whopping $871 billion in a single year, according to a study released Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The study examined the economic toll of car and truck crashes in 2010, when 32,999 people were killed, 3.9 million injured and 24 million vehicles damaged. Those deaths and injuries were similar to other recent years.(AP Photo/Daily Free Press, Janet S. Carter)

Report: Car, truck crashes cost whopping $871B

Joan Lowy · May 29, 2014 10:28 pm

Obama and Hillary Clinton lunch at the White House

Obama and Hillary Clinton lunch at the White House

Nedra Pickler · May 29, 2014 9:05 pm

FILE - This April 10, 1996 file photo shows Michael A. Brown attending funeral services for his father, former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown at the Washington's National Cathedral in Washington. Former District of Columbia Councilmember Brown could be sentenced to nearly four years in prison for taking more than $50,000 in bribes in an undercover FBI sting. A federal judge in Washington will sentence Brown Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors are asking for a prison term of 43 months, the most he could get under the terms of a plea bargain he struck last year. Brown's lawyers are hoping for a more lenient sentence. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)

Ex-DC lawmaker Brown gets 3 years for bribes

Matthew Barakat · May 29, 2014 8:37 pm

Maria Kaltchenko of Tupelo, Miss., smiles after spelling the word "pointelle" correctly during the semifinal round of the National Spelling Bee, Thursday, May 29, 2014, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

12 spellers make National Spelling Bee finals

Ben Nuckols · May 29, 2014 7:36 pm

GOP bristles over Obama pressure on immigration

Alicia Caldwell · May 29, 2014 7:19 pm

National Security

CIA winds down drone strike program in Pakistan

Ken Dilanian · May 29, 2014 6:34 pm

A House Republican is pushing the federal government to change federal regulations so whole, unflavored milk can be sold at public schools again.

House panel votes to allow waivers on school meals

MARY CLARE JALONICK · May 29, 2014 6:27 pm

Highlights of the VA investigators’ interim report

Highlights of the VA investigators’ interim report

Associated Press · May 29, 2014 6:23 pm

Study: Species disappearing far faster than before

Study: Species disappearing far faster than before

Seth Borenstein · May 29, 2014 6:01 pm

Itâs great to see young men breaking the stereotypes that face millennials by standing up for their values and fighting for good in their communities.

SF ISO ambitious charmer; SM seeks amusing looker

Jennifer Agiesta · May 29, 2014 4:42 pm

Boehner, Pelosi reserve judgment on VA’s Shinseki

Matthew Daly · May 29, 2014 4:26 pm