Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014, file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., asks questions at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Menendez paid a law firm $250,000 in December 2013 for legal costs related to Justice Department and Senate Ethics Committee investigations into his ties with a major campaign donor. The Democrat also has set up a legal trust to raise money as the investigations continue.

Menendez sets up fund for ethics, Justice probes

Henry Jackson · January 31, 2014 11:52 pm

Senate Republicans raise almost $37M in 2013

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2014 10:48 pm

President Barack Obama greets supporters after speaking at McGavock High School on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. Also pictured is former Vice President Al Gore, behind. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Obama asks CEOs for help hiring long-term jobless

Jim Kuhnhenn · January 31, 2014 10:16 pm

US assails apparent torture of Ukrainian protester

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2014 9:23 pm

GOP committee has $21M banked to defend House

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2014 8:37 pm

Oust that tune: Study details cures for earworms

Seth Borenstein · January 31, 2014 8:31 pm

This image released by the FBI shows a photo of Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis. Alexis, who killed 12 people in last year's rampage at Washington's Navy Yard lied so convincingly to Veterans Affairs doctors before the shootings that they concluded he had no mental health issues despite serious problems and encounters with police during the same period, according to a review by The Associated Press of his confidential medical files. (AP Photo/FBI)

National Security

Gunman’s doctor before rampage: ‘No problem there’

Kevin Freking · January 31, 2014 7:07 pm

In this Jan. 29, 2014, photo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on current and projected national security threats against the U.S. Clapper, said this week that the loss of state secrets as a result of leaks by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden was the worst in American history. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

FACT CHECK: NSA leaks worst intelligence breach?

Stephen Braun · January 31, 2014 5:12 pm

Two workers take a break at the Sanki Sliding Center, a venue for bobsleigh, skeleton and luge at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Obama says Sochi Olympics are safe

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2014 11:42 am

House GOP question changes in flood insurance bill

Andrew Taylor · January 31, 2014 9:17 am

Air Force brass: Culture of fear led to cheating

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · January 31, 2014 9:00 am

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. fields a flurry of phone calls in his Capitol Hill office in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, after he announced that he would retire after 40 years in the House of Representatives. Waxman, 74, has been a liberal force in the House, focusing on clean air issues, investigating the tobacco industry, expanding Medicaid and helping to write and enact the 2010 Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo)

20-term Dem Waxman to retire; Sandra Fluke may run

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2014 2:02 am