Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients can expect an historically small increase in benefits come January 2014. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

Tiny Social Security hike squeezes seniors, vets

Stephen Ohlemacher · October 14, 2013 11:40 am

Sen. Corker says parties need to be on ‘same page’

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2013 11:20 am

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2013 file photo people visit the closed World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, despite signs stating that the national parks are closed due to the federal shutdown. The Lincoln Memorial is in the background. The shutdown is transforming a musty debate over the role of government in America into a coast-to-coast, prime-time reality show. With landmarks closed, paychecks delayed and workers furloughed, Americans are drawing dueling lessons from the rippling effects of the partial shutdown: either the disruptions show that the feds are way too involved in people's lives, or that the government does a lot of vital things that people take for granted. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Shutdown driving debate over role of government

Nancy Benac · October 14, 2013 8:02 am

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, listens to a reporter's question about their meeting with Senate Republicans regarding the government shutdown and debt ceiling on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Reid: Soft-spoken, combative Obama partner vs GOP

CHARLES BABINGTONNEDRA PICKLER · October 14, 2013 7:59 am

Md. AG responds to report he drove recklessly

Washington Examiner · October 13, 2013 9:53 pm

Noreen Grimm stands next to her husband David Grimm, both from Pittsburgh, Pa., holding a portrait of President George Washington during a rally at the World War II Memorial in Washington Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. The rally was organized to protest the closure of the Memorial, subsequent to the shutdown, and lack of access to it by World War II veterans, who traveled there on Honor Flight visits. Leaders in the Senate have taken the helm in the search for a deal to end the partial government shutdown and avert a federal default. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

DC crowd pushes through barriers to WWII Memorial

Washington Examiner · October 13, 2013 9:41 pm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada walks to the elevators after the rare Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in just four days and end a partial government shutdown that's entering its third week. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Spending stumbling block to budget deal

Donna Cassata · October 13, 2013 9:34 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005 file photo, trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. For the second straight year, millions of Social Security recipients can expect an historically small increase in benefits come January 2014. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

Social Security raise to be among lowest in years

Stephen Ohlemacher · October 13, 2013 4:45 pm

SOCIAL SECURITY COLA

smccrorys.mccrory · October 13, 2013 2:00 pm

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, reads a newspaper before a meeting of the IMFC, during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings at IMF headquarters, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Washington. World finance officials prepared to wrap up three days of meetings in Washington, where fretting about the risk of an unprecedented U.S. debt default overshadowed myriad worries about a shaky global economic recovery. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Hope remains for global recovery beyond US impasse

MARJORIE OLSTERMARTIN CRUTSINGER · October 13, 2013 9:06 am

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, reads a newspaper before a meeting of the IMFC, during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings at IMF headquarters, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Washington. World finance officials prepared to wrap up three days of meetings in Washington, where fretting about the risk of an unprecedented U.S. debt default overshadowed myriad worries about a shaky global economic recovery. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

World finance officials focus on global risks

MARJORIE OLSTERMARTIN CRUTSINGER · October 13, 2013 6:09 am

From left, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Washington. The federal government remains partially shut down and faces a first-ever default between Oct. 17 and the end of the month. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Congress lumbers while threatened default looms

Washington Examiner · October 12, 2013 11:33 pm