Tag: Nation

FILE - This July 6, 2013 file-pool photo shows work continuing at the crash site of the train derailment and fire in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Federal inspection teams are headed to the booming Bakken oil region in Great Plains states to see if rail shipments of crude oil meet safety regulations. The inspections are dubbed the "Bakken blitz." U.S. officials announced them at a rail safety meeting Thursday. Inspections were prompted by last month's rail disaster in the lakeside Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, near the Maine border. An unattended train carrying oil from the Bakken region came loose and derailed, sending tank cars into the center of the town, where they exploded. Forty-seven people were killed and much of the town was destroyed. (AP Photo/Ryan Remiorz, Pool)

Safety inspection blitz of oil shipments launched

Joan Lowy · August 29, 2013 7:13 pm

Biden to visit Panama, Mexico in September

Josh Lederman · August 29, 2013 7:03 pm

FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo House Speaker, Republican John Boehner of Ohio, pauses during a meeting with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional Republicans and Democrats are pressing President Barack Obama to explain why the U.S. military should attack Syria and involve Americans in a deadly civil conflict that has roiled the Mideast. Boehner, wrote the president on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, in seeking answers as the drumbeat of war grew louder. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama briefs Boehner on Syria

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2013 6:59 pm

Obama briefs Boehner on Syria, speaker seeks further talks, consultation with Congress

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2013 6:48 pm

Man arrested for threats to Hawaii Congresswoman

Henry Jackson · August 29, 2013 5:56 pm

Feds won’t sue to stop recreational marijuana legalization in states of Colorado, Washington

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2013 5:31 pm

Shawn and Carrie Pratt of Kingwood, W.Va., with their daughter Dagen, speak to the media outside a federal health meeting in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. Dagen was part of a controversial study of premature babies that has sparked questions about how to inform patients about the risks of medical research. (AP Photo/Lauran Neergaard)

Baby study spurs ethics debate over research risks

Lauran Neergaard · August 29, 2013 5:20 pm

Average US rate on 30-year mortgage at 4.51 pct.

Marcy Gordon · August 29, 2013 4:36 pm

US banks earn record $42.2B in 2nd quarter

Marcy Gordon · August 29, 2013 4:10 pm

In this Aug. 22, 2013 photo, cars travel on the rebuilt Vermont Route 107 in Bethel, Vt. In what some consider a bit of an engineering marvel, a three-mile section of Route 107 between Bethel and Stockbridge, a major east-west highway that was destroyed by the storm, was rebuilt and reopened in 119 days, a job that normally would have taken two years. Driving in America has stalled, leading researchers to ask: Is the national love affair with the automobile over? After rising for decades, total vehicle use in the U.S. peaked in August 2007. It then dropped sharply during the Great Recession and has largely plateaued since. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Americans driving less as car culture wanes

Joan Lowy · August 29, 2013 3:45 pm

FILE - This July 26, 2013 file photo shows green paint splattered on the base of the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral with green paint and suspected of similar vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial and other sites has been admitted to a hospital psychiatric ward. A lawyer for Jiamei Tian told a judge during a hearing Thursday that if Tianâs metal condition stabilizes, she can go back to a halfway house where she has been staying. The lawyer, Nancy Glass, didnât elaborate on concerns about Tianâs mental health. Another status hearing in the case was set for Sept. 18. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Woman charged in cathedral vandalism hospitalized

Washington Examiner · August 29, 2013 3:34 pm

Obama to address AFL-CIO convention next month

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 29, 2013 3:19 pm