Tag: Nation

FILE--In this Oct. 10, 2013 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., arrives to hold a hearing with Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic officials say President Barack Obama intends to nominate Montana Sen. Max Baucus as ambassador to China. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FIle)

Officials: Baucus to be named ambassador to China

DAVID ESPODONNA CASSATA · December 19, 2013 2:57 am

FILE - This June 6, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. A presidential advisory panel has recommended dozens of changes to the government's surveillance programs, including stripping the NSA of its ability to store Americans' telephone records and requiring a court to sign off on the individual searches of phone and Internet data. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

White House task force urges limit on NSA snooping

JULIE PACEKIMBERLY DOZIER · December 19, 2013 2:06 am

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber for the final votes on the bipartisan budget deal designed to keep Congress from lurching from one fiscal crisis to the next and ease the harshest effects of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bipartisan budget agreement clears Congress

David Espo · December 18, 2013 11:57 pm

Insurers allow more time to pay under health law

Insurers allow more time to pay under health law

Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · December 18, 2013 11:46 pm

In this photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a soldier closes the gate at the now abandoned Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. Detainees were housed in open air pens until the completion of Camp Delta in April 2002. Many detainees at Guantanamo Bay may be closer to heading home under a bipartisan deal reached in Congress that gives President Barack Obama a rare victory in his fight to close the prison for terror suspects. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

Defense bill gives Obama rare Guantanamo victory

Nedra Pickler · December 18, 2013 11:20 pm

Senate bill would allow US to resume Egypt aid

Senate bill would allow US to resume Egypt aid

Bradley Klapper · December 18, 2013 11:14 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a government spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington. With the new budget deal in place, economists say the U.S. economy has a good chance to accelerate at its fastest pace since before the Great Recession struck six years ago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

How budget deal should help support US economy

Josh Boak · December 18, 2013 11:12 pm

US sanctions al-Qaida supporters

National Security

US sanctions al-Qaida supporters

Deb Riechmann · December 18, 2013 10:58 pm

Senate GOP leader assails Dems on defense bill

Senate GOP leader assails Dems on defense bill

Donna Cassata · December 18, 2013 10:32 pm

Democratic officials: Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., expected to be named ambassador to China

Democratic officials: Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., expected to be named ambassador to China

Washington Examiner · December 18, 2013 10:28 pm

Fed focus shifting to stubbornly low US inflation

Fed focus shifting to stubbornly low US inflation

Christopher Rugaber · December 18, 2013 10:14 pm

Employer groups oppose pension fees in budget deal

Employer groups oppose pension fees in budget deal

Sam Hananel · December 18, 2013 10:13 pm