Tag: Nation

Sabrina Fulton, mother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, speaks at the podium in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, with Rev. Al Sharpton, left, Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon Martin, second from right, and Jahvaris Fulton, brother of Trayvon Martin, right, during the 50th anniversary commemoration of the of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Powell: Trayvon Martin verdict ‘questionable’

Washington Examiner · August 25, 2013 6:13 pm

FILE- This Aug. 21, 2013, file image provided by by Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show several bodies being buried during a funeral in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. A senior administration official said Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013, that there is âvery little doubtâ that a chemical weapon was used by the Syrian regime against civilians in an incident that killed at least a hundred people last week, but added that the president had not yet decided how to respond. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, File)

US official: chemical weapons likely used in Syria

Kimberly Dozier · August 25, 2013 3:31 pm

White House: “Very little doubt” chemical weapon used by Syria regime against civilians

Washington Examiner · August 25, 2013 12:10 pm

In this image from video provided by the Smithsonian National Zoo, Mei Xiang gives birth to a cub two hours after her water broke Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, at the National Zoo in Washington. The zoo has been on round-the-clock panda watch since Aug. 7, when Mei Xiang began showing behavioral changes consistent with a pregnancy or pseudopregnancy. (AP Photo/Smithsonian National Zoo)

DC panda that birthed live cub has stillborn 1 too

Jessica Gresko · August 25, 2013 4:38 am

A picture taken through a window shows the United Nations high representative for disarmament affairs, Angela Kane, second left, at a hotel in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. The United Nations disarmament chief arrived today to press President Bashar Assad's regime to allow U.N. experts to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack this week that reportedly killed more than 130 people. Kane who was dispatched by the U.N. secretary-general to push for a speedy investigation into Wednesday's purported attack outside the Syrian capital, did not speak to reporters upon her arrival in Damascus. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

US moves forces toward Syria, inquiry continues

BRADLEY KLAPPERROBERT BURNS · August 25, 2013 12:49 am

Mideast defense chiefs to meet in Jordan

Washington Examiner · August 25, 2013 12:49 am

Participants march down Independence Avenue away from the Lincoln Memorial during the rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington 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/Jose Luis Magana)

Marching for King’s dream: ‘The task is not done’

Suzanne Gamboa · August 25, 2013 12:36 am

ADDING SECOND SENTENCE TO CAPTION - Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledges applause before speaking at a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013. Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said he would not be in office, nor would Barack Obama be president, without those who marched. "They marched in spite of animosity, oppression and brutality because they believed in the greatness of what this nation could become and despaired of the founding promises not kept," Holder said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Holder: I wouldn’t be AG without 1963 marchers

Washington Examiner · August 24, 2013 10:23 pm

President Barack Obama speaks on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013 at the Lackawanna College student union in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo / The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys)

Obama, national security team meet on Syria

Washington Examiner · August 24, 2013 9:57 pm

A sheet of the U.S. Postal Service stamp commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington is seen during an unveiling event at the Newseum in Washington, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Moment in 1963 March on Washington now a stamp

Shaquille Brewster · August 24, 2013 5:25 pm

March on Washington meets post-9/11 America

Associated Press · August 24, 2013 3:37 pm

FILE - A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. The U.S. governmentâs efforts to determine which highly classified materials Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowdenâs sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials tell the AP. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

Snowden suspected of bypassing electronic logs

Washington Examiner · August 24, 2013 1:41 pm