Tag: Nation

Obama thankful for founders, troops, freedoms

Obama thankful for founders, troops, freedoms

Darlene Superville · November 28, 2013 12:39 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, a citizen journalism image provided by the United Media Office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the United Nations investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be a chemical rocket, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)

AP sources: Plan calls for ship to destroy weapons

LOLITA C. BALDORPAULINE JELINEK · November 28, 2013 9:10 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, a citizen journalism image provided by the United Media Office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the United Nations investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be a chemical rocket, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)

US offering to destroy Syrian chemicals at sea

LOLITA C. BALDORPAULINE JELINEK · November 28, 2013 5:00 am

Navy suspends another ship-services contractor

Navy suspends another ship-services contractor

Washington Examiner · November 28, 2013 12:29 am

Health care contract moving from Verizon to HP

Health care contract moving from Verizon to HP

Washington Examiner · November 28, 2013 12:25 am

Obama discusses Iran deal with Saudi Arabia’s king

Obama discusses Iran deal with Saudi Arabia’s king

Washington Examiner · November 28, 2013 12:22 am

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2013, file photo, an American flag, left, and a District of Columbia fly outside The Washington Post building in Washington. The longtime headquarters building of The Washington Post is being sold to a real estate development company for $159 million. Graham Holdings Co. is the former parent of The Washington Post newspaper. The company announced a deal Nov. 27, to sell the downtown Washington building to Carr Properties. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Developer buys Washington Post building for $159M

Washington Examiner · November 28, 2013 12:19 am

President Barack Obama, right, and first lady Michelle Obama participate in a Thanksgiving service project by handing out food at the Capital Area Food Bank on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 in Washington. The Capital Area Food Bank distributes 30 million pounds of food annually. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Obama helps hand out Thanksgiving fixings to needy

Stacy Anderson · November 27, 2013 10:57 pm

Popcorn, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, from Badger, Minn., stands on the North Portico at the White House in Washington, before being pardoned by President Barack Obama, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. This is the 66th anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation by the President. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama pardons turkeys as part of annual rite

Jim Kuhnhenn · November 27, 2013 10:26 pm

In this frame grab taken from enhanced video made by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft, comet ISON, left, approaches the sun on Nov. 25, 2013. Comet Encke is shown just below ISON, The sun is to the right, just outside the frame. ISON, which was discovered a year ago, is making its first spin around the sun and will come the closest to the super-hot solar surface on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013, at 1:37 p.m. EST. (AP Photo/NASA)

Space hosts busy Thanksgiving with launch, comet

Seth Borenstein · November 27, 2013 9:49 pm

President Barack Obama signs a bill in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 in Washington. According to the White House, President Obama signed S. 252 : Prematurity Research Expansion and Education for Mothers who deliver Infants Early Reauthorization Act or the "PREEMIE Reauthorization Act", H.R. 1848: Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013, and H.R. 3204: Drug Quality and Security Act. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Obama signs bill for more scrutiny for drug mixers

Washington Examiner · November 27, 2013 9:17 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Shepherd Center shows Jason DiSanto, left, receiving a tongue piercing at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. An experimental device is letting paralyzed people drive wheelchairs simply by flicking their tongue in the right direction. The Tongue Drive System was developed at Georgia Tech and tested at Shepherd Center in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Georgia Tech, Gary Meek)

Tongue pierce lets the paralyzed drive wheelchairs

Lauran Neergaard · November 27, 2013 9:16 pm