Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 file photo, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after a hearing in his court martial. Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, a day after he was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Manning’s gender transition sets up legal showdown

DAVID DISHNEAUPAULINE JELINEK · August 23, 2013 9:14 pm

Gov’t seeks new limits on silica dust

Sam Hananel · August 23, 2013 9:14 pm

President Barack Obama speaks about affordable college education during a town hall meeting at Binghamton University, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, in Vestal, N.Y. Obama is on a the second day of his two-day bus tour in upstate New York and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

As capital looks to avert shutdown, default looms

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 23, 2013 8:56 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2013, file photo, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks during the debate on the proposed Cabinet at the parliament, in Tehran, Iran. New signs are emerging that international sanctions are taking a deepening toll on Iran's economy _ putting tens of billions of dollars in oil money out of the government's reach. Yet there is no indication the distress is achieving the West's ultimate goal of forcing the Islamic Republic to halt its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Sanctions biting but Iran not budging

Marjorie Olster · August 23, 2013 7:44 pm

FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, a construction worker drills on the roof of a new home in New Paltz, N.Y. The Commerce Department reports on new-home sales for July, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Jump in mortgage rates hurts US sales of new homes

Christopher Rugaber · August 23, 2013 7:05 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2005, file photo, a pedestrian makes his way past The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, N.C. The center is located in the F.W. Woolworth building, birthplace of the Civil Rights movement where four freshmen from historically black North Carolina A&T State University sat at the store's whites-only lunch counter and requested service. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Museums retrace March on Washington 50 years later

Brett Zongker · August 23, 2013 5:58 pm

Black leaders issue goals of anniversary march

Suzanne Gamboa · August 23, 2013 5:54 pm

US new-home sales plummet 13.4 pct. in July to lowest level in 9 months as mortgage rates rise

Washington Examiner · August 23, 2013 2:01 pm

Egyptian army soldiers guard Tora prison, where Egypt's deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak has been held, in Cairo, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Mubarak has been released from jail and taken to military hospital in Cairo. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

US divided over how to respond to Mideast violence

DEB RIECHMANNLOLITA C. BALDOR · August 23, 2013 11:07 am

Rev. Bobby Turner or Columbus, Ohio, places his hand on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013, in Washington. President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at a ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

50 years after King, marchers gather again in DC

Suzanne Gamboa · August 23, 2013 8:14 am

80 House members: Shutdown better than ‘Obamacare’

Charles Babington · August 23, 2013 8:12 am

Outgoing FBI director Robert Mueller speaks during an interview at FBI headquarters on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, in Washington. The nature of terrorism has changed in Robert Muellerâs dozen years as FBI director, but his concerns for the future are much the same as when terrorists struck on Sept. 11, 2001, merely a week after heâd taken over the bureau. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Departing FBI chief worries about airborne terror

Pete Yost · August 23, 2013 8:12 am