Tag: Nation

DC mayor uses march rally to call for DC statehood

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2013 4:03 pm

Bernice King recalls day of MLK’s speech

Brett Zongker · August 28, 2013 3:40 pm

Bush remembers King and legacy of a ‘great man’

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2013 3:25 pm

In this Tuesday, July 23, 2013, photo, a sold sign hangs outside a home in Mt. Lebanon, Pa. The National Association of Realtors reports on a measure of the number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes in July on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pending sales of US homes slip but remain solid

Christopher Rugaber · August 28, 2013 2:42 pm

White House enlists Bill Clinton on health care

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2013 2:08 pm

Rev. Al Sharpton, left, and Martin Luther King III stand together during an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, in Washington. Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, to commemorate King's famous ""I Have a Dream" speech, made Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

King bemoans ‘staggering’ joblessness among blacks

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2013 12:44 pm

Vice President Joe Biden speaks during The American Legion's annual convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Biden says there is no doubt that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government is responsible for the heinous use of chemical weapons. Biden's comments make him the highest-ranking U.S. official to say the Syrian regime is the culprit in a large-scale chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson) MANDATORY CREDIT

US readies rationale for possible Syria strike

JULIE PACEROBERT BURNS · August 28, 2013 2:22 am

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2010, file photo, Richard A. Clarke a former adviser to President Bill Clinton for cyber-security attends a news conference of the film 'S.O.S. - State of Security' at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany. Clarke is on a review panel formed by President Barack Obama to review U.S. intelligence and communications. Also on the panel are Michael Morrell, former deputy CIA director, and former Obama officials Cass Sunstein and Peter Swire.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Obama taps former aides for intel review panel

Josh Lederman · August 28, 2013 12:44 am

FILE - In this April 18, 2013, file photo then-Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Veterans and disabled workers who often struggle to find work could have an easier time landing a job under new federal regulations. The rules, announced Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, by the Labor Department, will require most government contractors to set a goal of having disabled workers make up at least 7 percent of their employees.(AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Labor rules to boost employment for vets, disabled

Sam Hananel · August 28, 2013 12:37 am

Envoy to seek release of American held in NKorea

MATTHEW LEEMATTHEW PENNINGTON · August 27, 2013 11:00 pm

Russian air defense missile system Buk-M2 is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Russia has supplied similar missiles to Syria. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Already questions about endgame in Syria

Lolita Baldor · August 27, 2013 10:57 pm

This photo taken Aug. 26, 2013 shows President Barack Obama speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Barack Obama was 2 years old and growing up in Hawaii when Martin Luther King delivered his âI Have a Dreamâ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Fifty years later, President Obama keeps a bust of King in the Oval Office and a framed copy of the program from that historic day when more than 200,000 people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama holds Martin Luther King as personal hero

Darlene Superville · August 27, 2013 10:32 pm