Tag: Nation

First lady Michelle Obama, center, with PBS Sesame Street's characters Elmo, left, attend an event to help promote fresh fruit and vegetable consumption to kids in an event in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Sesame Workshop and the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) joined in Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) in announcing a 2-year agreement to making healthy choices by using the Sesame Street characters to help deliver the messages about fresh fruits and vegetables. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Big Bird, Elmo to encourage kids to eat produce

Associated Press, Darlene Superville · October 30, 2013 4:00 am

Senate OKs Obama picks, but other battles brew

Alan Fram · October 30, 2013 2:26 am

Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Stressing that improvements are happening daily, the senior Obama official closest to the administration's malfunctioning health care website apologized Tuesday for problems that have kept Americans from successfully signing up for coverage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Health policy cancellations: New blow for admin.

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARSTEPHEN OHLEMACHER · October 30, 2013 12:19 am

White House meets with Jewish groups on Iran

Josh Lederman · October 29, 2013 11:55 pm

Obama taps 2 campaign supporters to be ambassadors

Washington Examiner · October 29, 2013 11:28 pm

Senators bicker over state stand your ground laws

Laurie Kellman · October 29, 2013 10:55 pm

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on potential changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Faced with anger over revelations about U.S. spying at home and abroad, members of Congress suggested Tuesday that programs the Obama administration says are needed to combat terrorism may have gone too far. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Security

Intel chief: US spies on allies, they do it, too

JULIE PACELARA JAKES · October 29, 2013 10:35 pm

House OKs bill to delay financial advice rules

Donna Cassata · October 29, 2013 10:08 pm

National Security

US looks to Asia nations to build their militaries

Matthew Pennington · October 29, 2013 9:59 pm

President Barack Obama speaks in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, during a memorial service for the late former House Speaker Thomas S. Foley. Foley was a 30-year veteran of the House who died last week at the age of 84. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama: Foley represented civility in Congress

Henry Jackson · October 29, 2013 9:39 pm

Energy and Environment

Lawmakers push to delay huge flood insurance hikes

Andrew Taylor · October 29, 2013 9:07 pm

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis, right, speaks at a town hall meeting Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 in West Bend, Wis. Sensenbrenner gave more surveillance power to U.S. government spies, railed against civil liberties advocates who warned about privacy abuses and even shut down a 2005 hearing to silence critics. Now he wants to scale back some of the counterterror laws he once championed, citing an overreach by the National Security Agency. The Wisconsin Republican plans to offer legislation as early as Oct. 29 to overhaul the NSA. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

US spying prompts reversal by anti-terror lawmaker

Lara Jakes · October 29, 2013 8:33 pm