Tag: Nation

NASA: Asteroid coming close in 2032 no concern

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2013 6:02 pm

Judges weigh challenge to force-feeding at Gitmo

Frederic J. Frommer · October 18, 2013 5:27 pm

Former House Speaker Tom Foley has died, according to House Democratic aides

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2013 3:51 pm

No safe bets for Obama despite toned-down agenda

JIM KUHNHENNJOSH LEDERMAN · October 18, 2013 3:46 pm

For now, a last-minute end to twin fiscal crises

Tom Raum · October 18, 2013 8:38 am

FILE - In this file image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam Adams Award in Moscow, Russia. In an interview with the New York Times posted to its website on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, Snowden says that he did not take any secret NSA documents to Russia and that intelligence officials in China as well as Russia could not get access to the documents he had obtained before leaving the United States. (AP File Photo)

Snowden: No classified documents taken to Russia

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2013 2:12 am

National Park Service employees remove barricades from the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Barriers went down at National Park Service sites and thousands of furloughed federal workers began returning to work throughout the country Thursday after 16 days off the job because of the partial government shutdown.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama lashes Republicans as government reopens

David Espo · October 17, 2013 11:46 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S. Justice Department has brought fresh charges against former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors over a deadly 2007 shooting on the streets of Baghdad. The jury indictment announced Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 charges four men with voluntary manslaughter and other crimes. The case stems from the shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians. Blackwater security contractors were guarding U.S. diplomats when they opened fire at an intersection. Their lawyers have said the insurgents ambushed the guards. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

APNewsBreak: New charges in Blackwater shootings

ERIC TUCKERFREDERIC J. FROMMER · October 17, 2013 11:44 pm

AP source: Obama taps Homeland Security secretary

Nedra Pickler · October 17, 2013 10:06 pm

Parts didn’t breach failed airline engine’s casing

Joan Lowy · October 17, 2013 9:40 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters waiting outside a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans as news emerged that leaders reached a last-minute agreement to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a partial, 16-day shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. Cruz said he would not try to block the agreement. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Vote to end shutdown could linger in 2014

Ken Thomas · October 17, 2013 9:34 pm

Senator lifts hold on Air Force nominee

Donna Cassata · October 17, 2013 9:21 pm