Tag: Nation

This Aug. 28, 2013, photo, shows a general view of Iran's parliament in Tehran. The U.S. has concluded that nearly half of Iran's monthly earnings from crude oil exports are accumulating in accounts overseas because of sanctions that restrict Tehran's access to the money. The estimates, provided to The Associated Press by a senior U.S. official and never released before, are the latest indication that new sanctions imposed in February are deepening Iran's economic distress and making it increasingly difficult to access billions of dollars in vital oil revenues. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Energy and Environment

APNewsBreak: US: Iran can’t access much oil income

Marjorie Olster · August 30, 2013 7:44 am

This photo combo shows Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, left, and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. Summers is the White House insider with a direct line to President Barack Obama. Yellen is the Federal Reserve veteran with a long list of congressional patrons. The two Ivy League trained economists have emerged as leading contenders to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Fed, the nationâs central bank. Obama could announce his nominee in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, J. Scott Applewhite)

Weighing Yellen vs. Summers for Federal Reserve

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 30, 2013 7:41 am

White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest answers reporters questions in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, where he talked about Syria and the use of chemical weapons as the administration debates what action to take. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US readies possible solo action against Syria

Julie Pace · August 30, 2013 3:39 am

National Security

Dispute over report about secret NSA budget

Stephen Braun · August 30, 2013 2:54 am

UN vehicles leave the Four Season Hotel in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. U.N. experts investigating purported poison gas attacks left their Damascus hotel Thursday, but anti-regime activists said the team's destination was not immediately known. (AP Photo)

AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no ‘slam dunk’

KIMBERLY DOZIERMATT APUZZO · August 30, 2013 1:36 am

Congressman: No decision yet on Syria action

Bradley Klapper · August 30, 2013 12:23 am

Clapper to publish numbers of secret spying orders

Kimberly Dozier · August 30, 2013 12:21 am

Congressman: Obama hasn’t made decision yet on timing, scope of Syria action

Washington Examiner · August 30, 2013 12:13 am

Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee, left, is joined by state Attorney General Bob Ferguson as he talks to the media in Olympia, Wash. about the federal government's announcement that it will not sue to stop Washington and Colorado from taxing and regulating recreational marijuana for adults, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Last fall, voters made both states the first in the country to legalize the sale of marijuana to adults over 21 at state-licensed stores. The states are creating rules for the system, with sales expected to begin early next year. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

Feds won’t sue to stop marijuana use in 2 states

GENE JOHNSONPETE YOST · August 29, 2013 11:23 pm

Phone recording played at USNA sex assault hearing

Brian Witte · August 29, 2013 11:16 pm

White House: US interests to guide Syria decision

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2013 11:11 pm

This undated product image provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol bearing a new warning label on the cap alerting users to potentially fatal risks of taking too much of the pain reliever. Johnson & Johnson, the company that makes Tylenol, says the warning will appear on the cap of new bottles of Extra Strength Tylenol sold in the U.S. starting in October 2013 and on most other Tylenol bottles in coming months. (AP Photo/Johnson & Johnson)

J&J launches new cap to curb Tylenol overdoses

Matthew Perrone · August 29, 2013 10:39 pm