Tag: Nation

Officials: White House to hold Cabinet-level meeting Tuesday to discuss cutting some Egypt aid

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2013 5:51 pm

This handout photo provided by Charles Tripp, taken in 2012 shows liver transplant recipient William Sherbert at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Sherbert of Garden Grove, Calif., temporarily moved from California, among the toughest parts of the country to get a donated liver, to Florida for a faster liver transplant. He recovered for his May 2012 transplant. (AP Photo/Charles Tripp)

Mapping the way to a more fair wait for new livers

Lauran Neergaard · August 20, 2013 4:36 pm

White House principal deputy press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug., 19, 2013. For the Obama administration, thereâs a new wrinkle that could further complicate ties with post-coup Egypt: the possible release of the countryâs jailed former leader, Hosni Mubarak. For nearly three decades, the U.S. propped up Mubarak and the Egyptian military with financial and military support. In exchange, Egypt helped protect U.S. interests in the region, including a peace treaty with Israel. "President Mubarak is part of an ongoing Egyptian legal process right now," Earnest said. "And because that is a process that is internal to Egypt, it's not something that I'm in a position to comment on from here." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mubarak casts shadow over US policy in Egypt

Julie Pace · August 20, 2013 3:06 pm

FILE - In this May 11, 2007 file photo, a Wall Street sign is seen at an entrance to the New York Stock Exchange. Three years after President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules, implementation of the law is behind schedule with scores of regulations yet to be written, let alone enforced. Obama was meeting with top banking regulators Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, for a status report with the five-year anniversary of the financial meltdown approaching this fall. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Obama urges renewed push for Wall Street overhaul

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 20, 2013 7:19 am

In this image released by The White House, Bo, left, and Sunny, the Obama family dogs, on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. The White House says the Obamas have added Sunny, a Portuguese Water Dog like Bo, to the first family. Sunny was born last June in Michigan and arrived at the White House on Monday. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)

Obamas adopt 2nd White House dog, name her Sunny

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2013 12:24 am

Budget cuts mean fewer children at Head Start

Suzanne Gamboa · August 19, 2013 9:34 pm

Rates mixed at weekly US Treasury auction

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2013 9:08 pm

Fed says big banks must improve financial cushions

Martin Crutsinger · August 19, 2013 8:59 pm

Courts to cut pay for federal defenders

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2013 8:30 pm

FILE - In this July 31, 2013 file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at a Pentagon news conference in Washington. Hagel will meet for the first time with China's Minister of National Defense Gen. Chang Wanquan at the Pentagon on Monday, Aug. 19. Hagel is presiding over a Pentagon making a deliberate "pivot" to Asia after more than a decade of wars in the greater Middle East, and improving ties with China is at the heart of the Obama administration's Asia strategy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Hagel says he will visit China next year

Robert Burns · August 19, 2013 8:14 pm

President Barack Obama makes a statement to the media regarding events in Egypt, from his rental vacation home in Chilmark Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. The president announced that the US is canceling joint military exercise with Egypt amid violence. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Benghazi aftershocks affecting US policy in Egypt

Bradley Klapper · August 19, 2013 8:01 pm

CEO Gary Knell leaving NPR after less than 2 years

Ben Nuckols · August 19, 2013 7:41 pm