Tag: Nation

McCain attaches strings to support of Obama’s plan

Washington Examiner · September 3, 2013 11:24 am

FILE - This Feb. 22,2013 file photo shows Two heavily damaged homes on the beach in Mantoloking, N.J., from Superstorm Sandy. Man-made global warming may decrease the likelihood of the already unusual steering currents that pushed Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey in a freak 1-in-700 year path, researchers report. While that may sound like the rare good climate change news, it's probably not, according to the study's authors, because they only looked at steering currents and other factors, including stronger storms, and sea level rise can and likely will outweigh any benefit from changing air patterns. The study is disputed by other scientists who have been vocal about the meteorological factors behind Sandy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Sandy’s ‘freaky’ path may be less likely in future

Seth Borenstein · September 3, 2013 7:18 am

President Barack Obama arrives to deliver remarks about the crisis in Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013 in Washington. Obama says he has decided that the United States should take military action against Syria in response to a deadly chemical weapons attack. But he says he will seek congressional authorization for the use of force. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In first major test, Obama overrules new team

Julie Pace · September 3, 2013 7:17 am

FILE - This Oct. 17, 2012 file photo shows a patient getting a flu shot in Jackson, Miss. Flu vaccination is no longer merely a choice between a jab in the arm or a squirt in the nose. This fall, some brands promise a little extra protection. For the first time, certain vaccines will guard against four strains of flu rather than the usual three. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Some flu vaccines promise a little more protection

Lauran Neergaard · September 3, 2013 7:16 am

Midshipmen questioned in sexual assault hearing

Brian Witte · September 3, 2013 1:03 am

In this photo provided by CBS News, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., talks about the U.S. response to Syria on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. McCain said he and others on Capitol Hill would want to see a plan and a strategy, that will achieve some goals that the country needs achieved. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

Obama tries persuading the skeptical on Syria

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 2, 2013 10:45 pm

Marine website compromised with pro-Assad message

Associated Press · September 2, 2013 7:52 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, accompanied by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013, following a closed-door meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss the situation with Syria. President Barack Obama, working to persuade skeptical lawmakers to endorse a U.S. military intervention in civil war-wracked Syria, hosted the two leading Capitol Hill foreign policy hawks for talks and directed his national security team to testify before Congress in a determined effort to sell his plan for limited missile strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP senators say details needed on Syria strategy

Washington Examiner · September 2, 2013 7:45 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2013 file photo safety guard Renee Green high-fives Demari Hill, 5, as she heads to Gresham Elementary School with her parents Destiny and Anthony Hill on her first day of kindergarten classes in Chicago. The National Center for Education Statistics estimated that in 2013, 50.1 million children will be enrolled in U.S. public schools and 5.2 million will be in private school. That doesnât include home-schooled students, an estimated 1.5 million in 2007, which home-school advocates say are higher now. As for teachers there are about 3.3 million elementary and secondary public teachers in 2013, leading to a student teacher ratio of 15-to-1, NCES said. (AP Photos/M. Spencer Green, File)

Facts, figures as students return to the classroom

Carole Feldman · September 2, 2013 8:04 am

FILE- In this Feb. 5, 2013, file photo House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, center, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., right, and Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., share a laugh prior to their committee hearing on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. The question central to immigration legislation is whether the 11 million immigrants already in the US illegally should get a path to citizenship. The answer from a small but growing number of House Republicans is "yes". But but not a "special" path to citizenship, says Chaffetz. "But there has to be a legal, lawful way to go through this process that works, and right now it doesn't." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Immigration bill knot: ‘Special’ citizenship path

Erica Werner · September 2, 2013 7:41 am

Naval Academy sex assault case continues

Brian Witte · September 2, 2013 2:46 am

In this image from video U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks from the State Department in Washington Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013, making a case for U.S. intervention in Syria. Kerry appeared at State in a series of interviews on Sunday news shows to say that the case for intervention in Syria's 2 1/2-year civil war was strengthening each day and that he expected American lawmakers to recognize the need for action when the "credibility of the United States is on the line." He said President Barack Obama has the authority to launch retaliatory strikes with or without Congress' approval, but Kerry stopped short of saying the president would do so if the House or Senate withholds support. (AP Photo/APTN)

Citing sarin use, US seeks Congress’ OK for action

Bradley Klapper · September 1, 2013 10:40 pm