Tag: Nation

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announces some personal changes, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, during a briefing at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hagel seeks answers to military ethics crisis

Robert Burns · February 7, 2014 9:32 pm

Man arrested trying to climb White House fence

Alicia Caldwell · February 7, 2014 8:40 pm

Obama taps former aide to be Bahamas ambassador

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 8:25 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson holds up his New York subway card after giving his first major address, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at the Wilson Center in Washington. The civil war in Syria has become a matter of U.S. homeland security over concerns about a small number of Americans who have gone to fight with Syrian rebels and returned home, new Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Friday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US: Syria conflict a threat to homeland

Alicia Caldwell · February 7, 2014 8:13 pm

Gov’t. says State Dept. expert pleading guilty to passing classified information to a reporter

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 6:46 pm

Wendy Williams’ talk show items go to Smithsonian

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 6:26 pm

Roberts names judges to FISA courts

Frederic J. Frommer · February 7, 2014 4:29 pm

Analysis: Washington gridlock at a crossroads

Tom Raum · February 7, 2014 1:55 pm

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, left, greets U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Nuland and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, thinking their conversation about the Ukraine was secure and private, were caught disparaging the European Union in a phone call that was apparently bugged, and U.S. officials say they strongly suspect Russia of leaking the conversation. (AP Photo/Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)

National Security

US sees Russian hand in envoy’s bugged call

Matthew Lee · February 7, 2014 3:32 am

Canada's Trevor Morrice makes attempt in the men's normal hill official ski jumping training at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

10 Things to Know for Friday

The Associated Press · February 7, 2014 2:00 am

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Near Eastern, Southern and Central Asian Affairs, second from right, speaks as Heba Sawan, left, tears up during a news conference with sister Amineh Sawan, right, and Anas al-Dabas, second from left, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. The Sawan sisters were survivors of the August 2013 chemical weapons attack in Moadamiya, Syria that left more than 1,200 Syrians dead and many more wounded. Al-Dabas witnessed the 2012 massacre in Daraya that took the lives of 540 Syrians. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Survivors of chemical attack want stronger US role

Henry Jackson · February 7, 2014 1:28 am

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks to the media during a photo opportunity with Haiti President Michel Martelly in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama, Biden ramp up fundraising push for Dems

Josh Lederman · February 7, 2014 1:12 am