Tag: Nation

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Partisan sparks were flying in Congress on Tuesday as Sebelius, President Barack Obama's top health official apologized for wasting consumers' time as they tried to use the crippled website that allows them to buy government mandated health insurance under the overhaul known as Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FACT CHECK: A Sebelius dodge at hearing

Calvin Woodward · October 31, 2013 2:30 am

US declines to name China currency manipulator

Martin Crutsinger · October 31, 2013 12:42 am

Jin hye Jo wipes a tear as she testifies during a hearing of the United Nations mandated Commission of Inquiry about the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Washington. Jo wiped the tear while talking about her brother dying in her arms. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

NKorea defector testifies at UN rights probe in US

Matthew Pennington · October 31, 2013 12:13 am

President Barack Obama smiles after he said that environmental protesters who interrupted his speech were at the wrong event as he speaks at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall about the federal health care law, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, Obama's rival in the 2012 presidential election, signed the state's landmark health care law in 2006, with top Democrats standing by his side. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

For Obama, risks and rewards in knowing too much

Josh Lederman · October 30, 2013 11:03 pm

This undated photo provided by Google shows a Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The Washington Post is reporting Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, that the National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. The Post cites documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with officials. (AP Photo/Google)

National Security

Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centers

Lolita Baldor · October 30, 2013 10:55 pm

Biden on website glitches: ‘We apologize’

Washington Examiner · October 30, 2013 10:48 pm

National Security

Government sues company that handled Snowden vetting

Pete Yost · October 30, 2013 10:27 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2013, file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Graham threatened Monday, Oct. 28, to hold up all nominations for federal government positions until survivors of last year's deadly attack on the diplomatic post in Libya appear before Congress. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Graham to block Fed, Homeland picks over Benghazi

Donna Cassata · October 30, 2013 10:12 pm

Veterans make up growing share of federal workers

Kevin Freking · October 30, 2013 10:12 pm

FDA: Imported spices have double salmonella risk

MARY CLARE JALONICK · October 30, 2013 9:50 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., prior to testifying before the committee's hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Sebelius, President Barack Obama's top health official faced tough questioning by a congressional committee Wednesday that will demand she explain how the administration stumbled so badly in its crippled online launch of the president's health care overhaul. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

New security issues surface for health website

LAURIE KELLMANRICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR · October 30, 2013 9:49 pm

Lawmakers meeting in hopes of limited budget deal

Andrew Taylor · October 30, 2013 9:41 pm