Tag: Nation

FILE - This Dec. 7, 2011, file photo, shows customers shopping at a Costco, in Portland, Ore. The Commerce Department will release its wholesale trade inventories report, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

US wholesale stockpiles rise by most since January

Christopher Rugaber · October 25, 2013 2:17 pm

Former spy chief gets eavesdropping lesson

Washington Examiner · October 25, 2013 2:05 pm

US wholesale stockpiles jump in August by most since January as sales also rise

Washington Examiner · October 25, 2013 2:01 pm

FDA proposes rules to make animal food safer

MARY CLARE JALONICK · October 25, 2013 1:18 pm

In this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013 photo, appliances are on display at a Sears store in Berlin, Vt. Commerce Department reports on business orders for durable goods in September Friday Oct. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Long-lasting US factory goods orders rise 3.7 pct.

Christopher Rugaber · October 25, 2013 1:13 pm

National Security

AP sources: foreign help to US could be exposed

Kimberly Dozier · October 25, 2013 1:13 pm

Higher aircraft demand lifts orders for long-lasting US factory goods; business spending falls

Washington Examiner · October 25, 2013 12:31 pm

Fabrice Bregier, the CEO of Airbus, pauses during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Airbus promotes its US links on Boeing’s turf

Joan Lowy · October 25, 2013 1:54 am

Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI listens at left as Andy Slavitt, representing QSSI's parent company, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government's health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government's responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Website contractors point fingers at Obama admin.

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARSTEPHEN OHLEMACHER · October 25, 2013 1:35 am

Chancellery minister Ronald Pofalla delivers a statement after the meeting of the parliamentary control committee in the German Bundestag parliament in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Oct. 24, 2013. The committee met to discuss the possible tapping of Chancellor Merkel's mobile phone by US secret services. (AP Photo/dpa, Rainer Jensen)

National Security

How and why NSA spies on US allies

Kimberly Dozier · October 25, 2013 12:56 am

Vice President Joe Biden applauds as President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The president said now that the partial government shutdown is over, Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to fix what he called "a broken immigration system." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama calls for immigration law by end of the year

DONNA CASSATAJIM KUHNHENN · October 25, 2013 12:38 am

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen pills, also known as Vicodin, are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 recommended new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

FDA wants limits on most prescribed painkillers

Matthew Perrone · October 25, 2013 12:03 am