Tag: Nation

In these October 2013 photos, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, left, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testify at separate hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington. When it comes to the Internet, the Obama administration appears simultaneously to be a bungling amateur and a stealthy wizard. The same federal government that apparently intercepted communications to and from Google and Yahoo data centers without leaving a trace is facing scorn because it can't put together a working website for health care. (AP Photo)

Feds proving Internet-adept and inept at same time

Seth Borenstein · October 30, 2013 9:27 pm

Congress begins talks on food stamps, farm aid

MARY CLARE JALONICK · October 30, 2013 9:25 pm

US budget deficit down to $680B, lowest in 5 years

Martin Crutsinger · October 30, 2013 9:16 pm

FEDERAL FUNDS RATE

fduckettf.duckett · October 30, 2013 9:03 pm

Education Department seeks feedback on ratings system

Kimberly Hefling · October 30, 2013 8:52 pm

The decision of the Federal Reserve appears on a television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. The Fed says in a statement after a two-day policy meeting that it will keep buying $85 billion a month in bonds to keep long-term interest rates low and encourage more borrowing and spending. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Fed leaves low interest-rate policies unchanged

Martin Crutsinger · October 30, 2013 8:51 pm

House committee pushes VA on conference spending

Kevin Freking · October 30, 2013 8:46 pm

US deficit falls to $680.3B in 2013, first time in 5 years imbalance falls below $1T

Washington Examiner · October 30, 2013 8:31 pm

This photo taken Sept. 30, 2013 shows Dina Herbert, a librarian holding the Kol Bo book from the 1540's, that was one of the Iraqi Jewish documents being conserved at the National Archives in College Park, Md. The tattered Torah scroll fragments, Bibles and other religious texts found in a flooded Baghdad basement 10 years ago testify to a once-thriving Jewish population that's all but disappeared from Iraq. Recovered from the Iraqi intelligence headquarters and shipped to the United States for years of painstaking conservation was a literary trove of more than 2,700 books and tens of thousands of documents that are being digitized and put online. A sample of that treasure is being displayed for the first time this fall at the National Archives in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trove of Iraqi Jewish belongings to go on display

ERIC TUCKERRANDY HERSCHAFT · October 30, 2013 8:24 pm

This undated handout image provided by the Social Security Administration shows a prepaid MasterCard debit card that Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients who do not have bank accounts have the option of getting with their benefits instead of a paper check. The annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is based on a government measure of inflation that will be released Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Social Security Administration)

Social Security benefits to go up by 1.5 percent

Stephen Ohlemacher · October 30, 2013 7:43 pm

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger holds the Smokey the Bear stuffed toy which was presented to him by the U.S. Forest Service during a ceremony at the Agriculture Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, where he was named the agency's third honorary Forest Ranger for his leadership on climate change. Schwarzenegger joins actress Betty White and Rolling Stones keyboard player Chuck Leavell as an honorary ranger. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Energy and Environment

Agency names Arnold Schwarzenegger honorary ranger

Washington Examiner · October 30, 2013 7:39 pm

President Barack Obama is greeted by well-wishers as he arrives at Boston Logan Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before going to Faneuil Hall to speak about the federal health care law. Faneuil Hall is where former Massachusetts 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)

Obama to cite Mass. health care law’s slow start

Nedra Pickler · October 30, 2013 7:34 pm