Tag: Nation

Senate GOP blocks defense bill over Dem tactics

Donna Cassata · November 21, 2013 9:43 pm

This image provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows an artists rendering on how a gamma ray burst occurs with a massive star collapsing and creating a black hole and beaming out focused and deadly light and radiation bursts. Astronomers and space telescopes in April 2013 saw the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, a large gamma ray burst. (AP Photo/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

‘Monster’ cosmic blast zipped harmlessly by Earth

Seth Borenstein · November 21, 2013 9:12 pm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, after the Democrat majority in the Senate pushed through a major rules change, one that curbs the power of the Republican minority to block President Barack Obama's nominations for high-level judgeships and cabinet and agency officials. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate Dems to push Iran sanctions next month

Bradley Klapper · November 21, 2013 8:26 pm

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a dinner in honor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom awardees at the Smithsonian Museum of American History on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

US: Afghan pact should be signed by end of year

Julie Pace · November 21, 2013 8:07 pm

Obama honors teachers who bring tech to classroom

Josh Lederman · November 21, 2013 7:48 pm

Obama backs Senate move to curb filibuster

Washington Examiner · November 21, 2013 7:09 pm

White House: Obama to make statement on Senate vote regarding judicial, other nominees

Washington Examiner · November 21, 2013 6:40 pm

Homelessness drops for third straight year in US

Hope Yen · November 21, 2013 6:25 pm

Vice President Joe Biden carries a bag full of food as he talks with reporters outside Capriotti's Sandwich Shop in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. He entered the 2020 race today and already leads in Wisconsin.

Joe Biden welcomes Delaware-born sandwich shop to DC

Josh Lederman · November 21, 2013 6:18 pm

Wild winter this year? Not likely, NOAA forecasts

Seth Borenstein · November 21, 2013 6:08 pm

600K baby monitors recalled after 2 deaths

Washington Examiner · November 21, 2013 5:58 pm

Energy and Environment

House backs bill to speed natural gas pipelines

Matthew Daly · November 21, 2013 5:45 pm