Tag: Nation

GOP blasts Obama for terror trial plans

Bradley Klapper · October 15, 2013 1:52 pm

House GOP preps separate debt limit, funding bill

Andrew Taylor · October 15, 2013 1:49 pm

FILE - This file image from the FBI website shows Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al-Libi. Al-Libi, who was captured in an Oct. 5, 2013, raid and held aboard a U.S. warship, is now in the United States. He is expected to stand trial over whether he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

As Gitmo plods, Obama’s winning the case for court

Eileen Sullivan · October 15, 2013 1:42 pm

Court to hear appeal over gun buying conviction

Washington Examiner · October 15, 2013 1:40 pm

AP Sources: House GOP to push separate bill to reopen government, raise debt limit

Washington Examiner · October 15, 2013 1:39 pm

FILE - This Feb. 5, 1930, file photo shows former President and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft in his judicial robes. History buffs know Taft is the only president-turned-Supreme Court chief justice, but he's also remembered as the president whose weight, at times well over 300 pounds, made headlines. But in the early 1900s, way before Weight Watchers, the nation's 27th president was helping to usher in a modern approach to treating obesity according to a report released Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. (AP Photo/Files)

Portly Taft helped usher in modern obesity care

Lauran Neergaard · October 15, 2013 6:11 am

Automatic cuts re-emerge as budget battle issue

Andrew Taylor · October 15, 2013 6:03 am

Rights groups urge Justice probe of 1985 bombing

Stacy Anderson · October 15, 2013 3:17 am

Report: NSA collecting millions of contact lists

Washington Examiner · October 15, 2013 2:40 am

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. Reid reported progress Monday toward a deal to avoid a threatened default and end a two-week partial government shutdown as President Barack Obama called congressional leaders to the White House to press for an end to the impasse. "We're getting closer," Reid told reporters. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Shutdown deal in sight? Reid, McConnell optimistic

David Espo · October 14, 2013 11:52 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010, file photo then-Michigan Attorney General-elect Bill Schuette speaks in Detroit. After the Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that race could be a factor in college admissions in a Michigan case, affirmative action opponents persuaded the state's voters to outlaw any consideration of race. Now, the high court is weighing whether that change to Michigan's constitution is itself discriminatory. ( AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Justices consider Michigan affirmative action ban

Mark Sherman · October 14, 2013 11:32 pm

President Barack Obama walks back to the Oval Office after he visited Martha's Table, which assists the poor and where furloughed federal employees are volunteering, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2013. Speaking there Obama said that if Republicans can't resolve the standoff over the debt ceiling and the partial government shutdown, quote, "we stand a good chance of defaulting." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

For Obama, budget fight has high stakes for agenda

Julie Pace · October 14, 2013 9:46 pm