Tag: Nation

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks about the Federal Reserve's first and next century, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, at the Brookings Institution in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bernanke likens ’08 financial crisis to car crash

Martin Crutsinger · January 16, 2014 7:30 pm

US senator: No evidence NJ traffic study was legit

Washington Examiner · January 16, 2014 7:03 pm

Senate approaches final OK of $1.1T spending bill

Alan Fram · January 16, 2014 6:44 pm

11-term Rep. McKeon leaving, exodus continues

Donna Cassata · January 16, 2014 6:23 pm

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, right, and Tech. Sgt. Justin Richie, a 341st Maintenance Operations Squadron team trainer, riding in a work cage on Nov. 20, 2012, inside the T-9 maintenance trainer at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. The Air Force says 34 nuclear missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification. It is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force.(AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Beau Wade)

National Security

Cheating alleged in US nuclear missile force

LOLITA C. BALDORROBERT BURNS · January 16, 2014 6:09 pm

German man convicted in DC of murder in killing of 91-year-old socialite wife

Washington Examiner · January 16, 2014 6:06 pm

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy and jobs and manufacturing, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Obama urges action on expanding college access

Jim Kuhnhenn · January 16, 2014 5:58 pm

In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, photo, a sold sign is placed on a homesite in the Grace Manor townhouse development in Robinson Township, Pa. Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, releases weekly mortgage rates, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Average US rate on 30-year loan at 4.41 pct.

Washington Examiner · January 16, 2014 4:30 pm

Foreign holdings of US Treasury debt advance

Martin Crutsinger · January 16, 2014 3:08 pm

In Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, photo, slippers are sold at a Kmart in New York. The Labor Department releases Consumer Price Index for December on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

US consumer prices up 0.3 pct, most in 6 months

Christopher Rugaber · January 16, 2014 2:34 pm

US weekly unemployment benefits applications fall to 326k, but 1.35 million about to lose aid

Washington Examiner · January 16, 2014 1:31 pm

Congress wants more potatoes in gov’t program

MARY CLARE JALONICK · January 16, 2014 10:56 am