Tag: Nation

The Supreme Court will take up a Florida case over how judges should determine if a death row inmate is mentally disabled, and thus ineligible for execution. (Thinkstock Image)

High court to look at death row inmate with low IQ

Associated Press, Mark Sherman · October 21, 2013 5:47 pm

US existing-home sales drop 1.9 pct. in September

Christopher Rugaber · October 21, 2013 2:32 pm

Carol Burnett is honored with the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)

Carol Burnett receives top US humor prize in DC

Brett Zongker · October 21, 2013 2:20 pm

US existing home sales drop 1.9 percent in September due to higher mortgage rates, prices

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2013 2:00 pm

FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, a crowd of job seekers attends a health care job fair in New York. Almost 6 million young people, ages 16 to 24, are neither in school nor working, according to a study released Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, by The Opportunity Nation coalition. The study also finds that 49 states have seen an increase in the number of families living in poverty and 45 states have seen household median incomes fall in the last year. The dour report underscores the challenges young adults face now and foretell challenges they are likely to face as they get older. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Study: 15 percent of US youth out of school, work

Philip Elliott · October 21, 2013 10:17 am

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2013, file photo Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old girl from Pakistan, who was shot in the head by the Taliban last October for advocating education for girls, speaks on occasion of the International Day of the Girl at the World Bank in Washington. Malala has inspired the development of school curriculum encouraging advocacy. George Washington University announced Monday, Oct. 14, that faculty members are creating curriculum tools to accompany her book, "I Am Malala." Several faculty members will pilot the curriculum early next year for both college and high school instruction. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Malala inspires school curriculum

Kimberly Hefling · October 21, 2013 8:11 am

What has changed after 16 days of shutdown?

Connie Cass · October 21, 2013 8:09 am

GOP renews focus on ‘Obamacare’

DONNA CASSATARICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR · October 21, 2013 8:06 am

Former informant suing US for abandoning her

Frederic J. Frommer · October 21, 2013 7:47 am

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2013 file photo Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington to urge Congress to reopen the government and lift the US borrowing cap. Lew said Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013, that the fight over government spending pushed the country near the brink of default and the lesson has to be that it can't happen again. Lew says this latest battle was scarier than the 2011 budget fight because it got "so close to the edge." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Shutdown over, solution to next crisis unclear

Philip Elliott · October 21, 2013 7:45 am

Despite setback, GOP has impressive budgetary wins

Charles Babington · October 21, 2013 7:31 am

File- Thgis Oct. 17, 2013 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Administration officials say about 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges, the most detailed measure yet of the problem-plagued rollout of President Obama's signature legislation. However, the officials continue to refuse to say how many people have actually enrolled in the insurance markets. Without enrollment figures, it's unclear whether the program is on track to reach the 7 million people projecting by the Congressional Budget Office to gain coverage during the six-month sign-up period. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

For Obama, a frustrating health care rollout

Julie Pace · October 20, 2013 11:19 pm