Tag: Nation

27 liberal groups oppose Obama judicial nominee

Donna Cassata · February 20, 2014 6:54 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, singer Chris Brown, right, arrives at the District of Columbia Superior Court in Washington, for a status hearing in a case in which he's accused of hitting a man outside a Washington hotel. Lawyers for Brown are due back in a Washington court Thursday Feb. 20, 2014 to determine a date for his trial on a misdemeanor assault charge, but the singer won't be in town. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Man sues Chris Brown, bodyguard for total of $3M

Jessica Gresko · February 20, 2014 6:46 pm

Energy and Environment

World had 4th warmest January as eastern US froze

Seth Borenstein · February 20, 2014 6:13 pm

Officials: Obama budget to drop past offer to trim cost-of-living hikes in federal benefits

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 5:32 pm

Officials: Obama drops budget cost-of-living trims

Jim Kuhnhenn · February 20, 2014 5:31 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, singer Chris Brown, right, arrives at the District of Columbia Superior Court in Washington, for a status hearing in a case in which he's accused of hitting a man outside a Washington hotel. Lawyers for Brown are due back in a Washington court Thursday Feb. 20, 2014 to determine a date for his trial on a misdemeanor assault charge, but the singer won't be in town. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Lawyers for Chris Brown pick trial date in DC

Washington Examiner · February 20, 2014 4:06 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. A U.S. military drone strike in Yemen in December 2013 may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but they have refused make public the details of two U.S. investigations into the incident.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

National Security

Report: US drone may have killed dozen civilians

Kimberly Dozier · February 20, 2014 2:47 pm

President Barack Obama speaks at the North American Leaders Summit closing news conference in Toluca, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Obama was in Toluca for a one-day summit with Mexican and Canadian leaders, meeting on issues of trade and other neighbor-to-neighbor interests, even as Congress is pushing back against some of his top cross-border agenda items. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick)

Obama finds that the world intrudes on his travels

Jim Kuhnhenn · February 20, 2014 1:40 pm

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and President Barack Obama, right, look on as Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks at a news conference during the North American Leaders Summit in Toluca, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Obama is in Toluca for a one-day summit with Mexican and Canadian leaders, meeting on issues of trade and other neighbor-to-neighbor interests, even as Congress is pushing back against some of his top cross-border agenda items. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick )

Obama pressed by neighbors on sensitive issues

Jim Kuhnhenn · February 20, 2014 3:25 am

Guidelines to reduce C-section births urge waiting

Lauran Neergaard · February 19, 2014 11:24 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shows a jazz pianist playing inside an MRI machine. Jazz musicians are famous for musical conversations _ one improvises a few bars and another makes up an answer. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore had jazz pianists play this way inside MRI machines to show how their brains respond, and found that language regions enable the musical back-and-forth much like a spoken conversation. (AP Photo/Dr. Charles J. Limb, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Jazz study shows link between music and language

Lauran Neergaard · February 19, 2014 10:01 pm

FILE - In this July 5, 2011 file photo, a bumblebee alights on the bloom of a thistle in Berlin, Vt. Increasingly sick domesticated honeybee populations are infecting the world's wild bumblebees, a new study in the journal Nature finds. It's a problem because wild bees, which are doing far worse than their managed cousins, handle a big chunk of pollination for food, such as coffee, tomatoes and blueberries. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Energy and Environment

Bumblebees getting stung bad by honeybee sickness

Seth Borenstein · February 19, 2014 8:24 pm