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File- This Dec. 17, 2010 file photo shows Director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers arriving for the tax cut extension bill during a ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington. President Barack Obama says he has accepted Lawrence Summers' decision to withdraw from consideration for the role of Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Obama says Summers was a critical member of his economic team and says he is grateful for his service on behalf of the country. Summers was the leading candidate to replace current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke but faced opposition from some Democrats. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Summers withdraws from consideration for Fed chief

JULIE PACEMARTIN CRUTSINGER · September 16, 2013 4:02 am

FILE - In the Sept. 14, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama speaks about the financial crisis on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers at Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York. After weeks of intense focus on the crisis in Syria, the White House is set to use the five-year anniversary of the Lehman Bros. Sept. 15, 2008, bankruptcy filing next week to lay claim to an economic turnaround and to press congressional Republicans to not use the threat of a shutdown or a unprecedented debt default to extract a delay of President Barack Obama's signature health care. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama: Budget tightening could widen income gap

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 16, 2013 12:00 am

FILE - In this May 2, 2002, file photo, Phylicia Rashad, left, and Keshia Knight Pulliam from the "Cosby Show" arrive at NBC's 75th anniversary celebration at New York's Rockefeller Center. The Tony Award-winning actress, Rashad, is directing a reading of the play "Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963" at the Kennedy Center Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)

Phylicia Rashad takes on directing role

Stacy Anderson · September 15, 2013 10:57 pm

Lawrence Summers withdraws name from consideration to lead Federal Reserve

Washington Examiner · September 15, 2013 8:41 pm

File- This Dec. 17, 2010 file photo shows Director of the National Economic Council Lawrence Summers arriving for the tax cut extension bill during a ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington. President Barack Obama says he has accepted Lawrence Summers' decision to withdraw from consideration for the role of Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Obama says Summers was a critical member of his economic team and says he is grateful for his service on behalf of the country. Summers was the leading candidate to replace current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke but faced opposition from some Democrats. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Summers withdraws name from Fed consideration

JULIE PACEMARTIN CRUTSINGER · September 15, 2013 8:14 pm

In this image from video pretaped at the White House in Washington Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, for Sunday morning's ABC's "This Week" President Barack Obama answers questions about Syria, and other pressing national and international issues during an interview with George Stephanopoulos. Trying to lay claim to an economic turnaround, Obama acknowledged that despite progress, middle and low-income Americans have not benefited as much as the top 1 percent in the country. "We came in, stabilized the situation," citing 42 months in a row of growth, 7 1/2 million jobs created and a revitalized auto industry. He said that when it comes to a crucial deadline to raise the nation's borrowing limit next month, he would not negotiate with Republicans. (AP Photo/ABC News)

Lawmakers debate whether US was outfoxed on Syria

Libby Quaid · September 15, 2013 6:06 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, Mary Beth Tinker, 61, shows one of her collection of arm bands during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington. Tinker was 13 years old in 1965 when she wore a black armband to school to protest the Vietnam War. School officials suspended her, leading to a lawsuit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, almost 50 years later, Tinker has resigned her job as a nurse to spend six months traveling around the country to colleges and high schools to talk about free speech. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Plaintiff in iconic school speech case starts tour

Jessica Gresko · September 15, 2013 5:25 pm

In this May 2, 2013, photo, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani delivers a speech during his campaign for the presidential election in Tehran, Iran. The U.N. has slotted the new moderate-leaning president to address the global gathering of leaders on Sept. 24 - just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to wrap up his speech. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Obama: Syria debate is diplomacy lesson for Iran

Washington Examiner · September 15, 2013 1:01 pm

A road crew works on a stretch of highway washed out by flooding along the South Platte River in Weld County, Colorado near Greeley, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. Hundreds of roads in the area have been damaged or destroyed by the floodwaters that have affected parts of a 4,500-square-mile (11,655-square-kilometer) area â an area the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut. (AP Photo/John Wark)

Rescuers issue stern warning to flooded towns

Washington Examiner · September 15, 2013 5:55 am

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2013, file photo Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington after a closed-door meeting about Syria with President Barack Obama. In a statement released Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, McCain and Graham said a Syrian chemical weapons agreement is meaningless. They said friends and enemies of the U.S. will view the deal, reached between the U.S. and Russia Saturday, as "an act of provocative weakness" by America, that it will embolden Iran as it continues its push for a nuclear weapon, and that Syrian President Bashar Assad will just use the time the agreement gives him to delay and deceive the world. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

McCain, Graham blast Syrian chemical weapons deal

Darlene Superville · September 14, 2013 9:41 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2005, file photo Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, walk during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow during for a four-day visit amid Israeli allegations that his government sought to buy Russian missiles. Assad and his father before him have been Moscowâs foremost Arab allies for decades. Currently much of the weaponry Syria deploys against the rebels fighting to the Assad regime comes from Russia. Even as evidence mounts that his military launched the Aug. 21, 2013, chemical attack that the U.S. says killed more than 1,000 people, Russia insists that the rebels used the deadly chemicals. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS, Presidential Press Service, File)

Analysis: Russia wants seat back at Mideast table

Steven Hurst · September 14, 2013 7:09 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013, President Barack Obama reaches to shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin during arrivals for the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Obama welcomed an agreement reached with Russia Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, but warned that the U.S. remains prepared to act if the attempt at a diplomatic solution fails. "I welcome the progress made between the United States and Russia through our talks in Geneva, which represents an important, concrete step toward the goal of moving Syria's chemical weapons under international control so that they may ultimately be destroyed," Obama said Saturday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool File)

Obama welcomes Syrian chemical weapons agreement

Darlene Superville · September 14, 2013 6:44 pm