Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2008 file photo, Lehman Brothers world headquarters is shown in New York, the day the 158-year-old investment bank, choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for bankruptcy. 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. collapse 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/Mark Lennihan, file)

Obama to use Lehman anniversary to cite progress

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 14, 2013 4:29 pm

FILE - In the Sept. 10, 2013, file photo Democratic state Sen. Angela Giron waves to supporters as she gives her concession speech after she lost in a recall vote in Pueblo, Colo. Giron is one of two Colorado state lawmakers, who helped enact stricter firearms laws in the aftermath of the mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut last year, to have been been ousted in National Rifle Association-aided recall elections. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Colorado recall stifles gun effort in Congress

Alan Fram · September 14, 2013 2:49 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House in Washington. After two-and-a-half years of civil war, Obamaâs larger Syria policy is in disarray even as his administration with help from Russia averted a military showdown for the time-being. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Obama’s larger Syria strategy in disarray

Bradley Klapper · September 14, 2013 1:27 pm

Correction: NPR-Staff Buyouts story

Washington Examiner · September 14, 2013 1:04 pm

FILE - This Jan. 11, 2013 file photo shows the Social Security Administration's main campus in Woodlawn, Md. Congressional investigators say Social Security has made more than $1 billion in improper disability payments to people who had jobs when they were supposed to be unable to work. In a report issued Friday, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 36,000 workers got improper payments from December 2010 to January 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Investigators: 36k got improper disability pay

Stephen Ohlemacher · September 14, 2013 12:34 am

White House: No subsidies for union health plans

Sam Hananel · September 14, 2013 12:01 am

President Barack Obama meets with the Kuwait Amir Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. The visit by Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah comes as Obama and top aides are lobbying skeptical lawmakers to support using military force against Syria for a deadly chemical weapons attack the U.S. says was carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Kuwait ruler presses Obama on Guantanamo detainees

Darlene Superville · September 13, 2013 10:41 pm

AP sources: Syria force trigger unlikely at UN

Julie Pace · September 13, 2013 8:43 pm

A woman hands are secured behind her back as she is arrested with over a hundred others as they block the intersection of Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey Avenue SE outside the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept 12, 2013, to protest Congress' inaction on comprehensive and inclusive immigration reform. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Advocates turn to Obama for action on immigration

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2013 8:37 pm

Longtime Clinton aide the link in campaign scheme

Ben Nuckols · September 13, 2013 8:07 pm

FDA OKs implant for enlarged prostate symptoms

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2013 7:06 pm

President Barack Obama meets with the Kuwait Amir Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. The visit by Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah comes as Obama and top aides are lobbying skeptical lawmakers to support using military force against Syria for a deadly chemical weapons attack the U.S. says was carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama hopes Kerry talks ‘bear fruit’ on Syria

Darlene Superville · September 13, 2013 6:57 pm