Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student's lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The rolls are made using apple sauce instead of trans fats. Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade as nutritionists have criticized them and local governments have banned them. The Food and Drug Administration is now finishing the job as they announce Nov. 7, 2013, that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out trans fats, saying they are a threat to the health of Americans.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Q&A: What are trans fats?

MARY CLARE JALONICK · November 8, 2013 4:29 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law. Obama says he's sorry Americans are losing health insurance plans he repeatedly said they could keep under his signature health care law. But the president stopped short of apologizing for making those promises in the first place. "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," he said in an interview Thursday, Nov. 7 with NBC News. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Obama apologizes to people losing health coverage

Julie Pace · November 8, 2013 4:00 pm

US consumer spending slows to 0.2 percent gain

Martin Crutsinger · November 8, 2013 1:32 pm

US consumer spending slows to 0.2 percent gain in September; income rises 0.5 percent

Washington Examiner · November 8, 2013 1:31 pm

US employers add 204,000 jobs in October, unemployment rate rises to 7.3 percent

Washington Examiner · November 8, 2013 1:30 pm

FILE -In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, file photo, job applicants arrives for an internship job fair held by the Miami Marlins, at Marlins Park in Miami. The government issues the October jobs report, on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, which had been delayed a week because of the government shutdown. ( AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

US government shutdown could distort jobs report

Christopher Rugaber · November 8, 2013 12:15 pm

Obama to pitch US exports at New Orleans port

Josh Lederman · November 8, 2013 10:10 am

FILE - In this June 13, 2013, file photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, pats President Barack Obama, right, on the chest while he speaks at a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride month. Moments after the Senate passed a historic measure to outlaw workplace discrimination against gays on Nov. 7, 2013, activists turned their attention toward Obama and a long-sought executive order that would have the same effect, though on a much smaller scale. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

After Senate win, gay groups shift focus to Obama

Julie Pace · November 8, 2013 9:10 am

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law. Obama says he's sorry Americans are losing health insurance plans he repeatedly said they could keep under his signature health care law. But the president stopped short of apologizing for making those promises in the first place. "I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me," he said in an interview Thursday, Nov. 7 with NBC News. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Obama: ‘I’m sorry’ Americans are losing insurance

Julie Pace · November 8, 2013 6:07 am

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2012, file photo, Alexes Garcia makes cinnamon rolls for student's lunch in the kitchen at Kepner Middle School in Denver. The rolls are made using apple sauce instead of trans fats. Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade as nutritionists have criticized them and local governments have banned them. The Food and Drug Administration is now finishing the job as they announce Nov. 7, 2013, that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out trans fats, saying they are a threat to the health of Americans.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

No more trans fat: FDA banning the artery-clogger

MARY CLARE JALONICK · November 8, 2013 4:28 am

National Security

US may split command of spy and cyber agencies

Nedra Pickler · November 8, 2013 12:53 am

Obama: Modest relief for Iran if it halts activity

Jim Kuhnhenn · November 8, 2013 12:19 am