Tag: Nation

A National Park Service employee uses an edge trimmer as workers tend to the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, after a 16-day partial government shutdown was resolved by lawmakers late Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama: After fiscal crisis, Washington must change

Washington Examiner · October 19, 2013 10:03 am

Obama, Dems are unified now but face tough tests

Julie Pace · October 19, 2013 8:10 am

In this Oct. 16, 2013, photo, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, left, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, walk to the Senate floor to vote on a bill to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government on Capitol Hill in Washington. The budget-debt brawl has widened the rift between the Grand Old Party and tea party lawmakers who are upset that House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to the plan to reopen government without extracting any limits on President Barack Obama's health care law.(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Shutdown showdown widened GOP-Tea Party rift

Laurie Kellman · October 19, 2013 8:03 am

Missed chances to seal budget deal early

cassatajim-kuhnhenn, calvin-woodwarddonna · October 19, 2013 7:56 am

Obama talks Syria, climate with new Norway leader

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2013 11:24 pm

Woman studying to be nun charged in baby’s death

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2013 11:19 pm

Obama to New York to fundraise for House Democrats

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2013 11:13 pm

US, Romania agree on air base rights

Lolita Baldor · October 18, 2013 11:07 pm

President Barack Obama stands with Jeh Johnson, his choice for the next Homeland Security Secretary, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. Johnson was general counsel at the Defense Department during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Homeland Security choice suggests priority shift

Alicia Caldwell · October 18, 2013 9:48 pm

Public tours of White House to resume Nov. 5

Darlene Superville · October 18, 2013 9:48 pm

National energy lab director resigns

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2013 9:35 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif briefs the media after the two days of closed-door nuclear talks, during a press conference at the CICG, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct.16, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Obama, Congress at odds over Iran sanctions relief

BRADLEY KLAPPERMATTHEW LEE · October 18, 2013 8:15 pm