Tag: Nation

VP Biden turns down prom invite, but sends corsage

VP Biden turns down prom invite, but sends corsage

Josh Lederman · May 19, 2014 4:47 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2013, file photo, small coffee producer Hector Perez show coffee beans damaged by the roya fungus in San Gaspar Vivar, Guatemala. The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to help Central American farmers fight a devastating coffee disease _ and to keep the price of your morning cup down. A fungus called coffee rust has already caused more than $1 billion in damage across the Latin American region. It is especially deadly to Arabica coffee, the bean that makes up most high-end, specialty coffees, and it is already affecting the price of some of those coffees in the United States. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Coffee fungus raising prices for high-end blends

MARY CLARE JALONICK · May 19, 2014 3:28 pm

In this Aug. 30, 2013 photo, Pauline King cares for her husband Jerry King at their home in Anna, Ill. Jerry was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1978. He can no longer go to the bathroom, bathe or dress himself without assistance from Pauline. You promise in sickness and in health, but a new poll shows becoming a caregiver to a frail spouse causes more stress than having to care for Mom, Dad or even the in-laws. Americans count on their families to care for them as they get older, with good reason: Half of people 40 and over already have been caregivers to relatives or friends, the poll found. (AP Photo/Stephen Lance Dennee)

Poll: More stressful to care for spouse than mom

LAURAN NEERGAARDJENNIFER AGIESTA · May 19, 2014 3:20 pm

FILE - In this April 29, 2014 file photo, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Ukraine Forum on Asset Recovery in central London. Holder and other federal law enforcement officials are expected to reveal criminal charges Monday in an international cyber-espionage case on Monday, May 19, 2014, said an official speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the case by name in advance of the announcement. (AP Photo/Andrew Winning, Pool, File)

US Official: China cited in cyber-espionage case

Eric Tucker · May 19, 2014 12:22 pm

Frankie Valli to headline July 4 celebration in DC

Frankie Valli to headline July 4 celebration in DC

Brett Zongker · May 19, 2014 8:24 am

A helicopter transporting water flies over trees during a wildfire Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Escondido, Calif. One of the nine fires burning in San Diego County suddenly flared Thursday afternoon and burned close to homes, trigging thousands of new evacuation orders.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Energy and Environment

Studies: Wildfires worse due to global warming

Seth Borenstein · May 18, 2014 4:32 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki speaks with the news media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 15, 2014, after testifying before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing to examine the state of Veterans Affairs health care. Facing calls to resign, Shinseki said Thursday that he hopes to have a preliminary report within three weeks on how widespread treatment delays and falsified patient scheduling reports are at VA facilities nationwide, following allegations that up to 40 veterans may have died while awaiting treatment at the Phoenix VA center. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Aide: Obama ‘madder than hell’ over VA allegations

Washington Examiner · May 18, 2014 2:59 pm

File- This march 12, 2014, file photo shows Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. It's a second-term Cabinet shuffle for President Barack Obama. Obama plans to nominate Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan to be White House budget. And the president is considering naming San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as Donovan's successor. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Obama considering new housing and budget leaders

JULIE PACEEMILY SCHMALL · May 18, 2014 1:54 am

FILE -- In this July 23, 2013 file photo is Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing; "Addressing the Immigration Status of Illegal Immigrants Brought to the United States as Children". Denham, whose district is in California's agricultural heartland of the San Joaquin Valley, is not worried that Congress' failure to pass immigration legislation will hurt his reelection.

California Republicans stress immigration support

Kevin Freking · May 17, 2014 3:18 pm

In this May 15, 2014, photo, Veterans Affairs Undersecretary Robert Petzel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 15, 2014, before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing to examine the state of Veterans Affairs health care. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki says May 16 he has accepted the resignation of Petzel. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Obama and Congress move to address VA firestorm

Matthew Daly · May 17, 2014 3:09 pm

In this image provided by the NAACP, Roslyn Brock, right, chairman of the national board of directors for the NAACP, puts a NAACP pin on new national president and CEO, Cornell Williams Brooks on Saturday, May 17, 2014, in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The selection of Brooks came as the United States marked the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which outlawed segregation in public schools. The lawsuit was argued by the organization's legal arm. (AP Photo/NAACP, J. Adams)

New NAACP leader: I’m Brown v. Board beneficiary

Jesse Holland · May 17, 2014 3:06 pm

FILE - In this April 24, 2014, file photo,, Katie Spring rolls up plastic that was used to cover certain plants during the winter in a field at the Good Heart Farmstead in Worcester, Vt. Spring and her husband Edge Fuentes, who both own the farm, back the GMO labeling bill passed by the Vermont legislature. Genetically modified foods have been around for years, but most Americans have no idea if they are eating them. The Food and Drug Administration says they don't need to be labeled, so the state of Vermont has moved forward on its own. On May 8, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed legislation making the state the first to require labeling of GMOs _ technically genetically modified organisms. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

Energy and Environment

Genetically modified foods confuse consumers

MARY CLARE JALONICK · May 17, 2014 1:50 pm