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President Barack Obama, second from left, Sasha Obama, and first lady Michelle Obama, are greeted as they exit Air Force One on arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Sunday Aug. 18, 2013, after a family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Also with them was Malia Obama, not pictured. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Post-vacation, Obama to face Egypt, spending talks

Darlene Superville · August 19, 2013 6:45 pm

US got ‘heads up’ on Snowden-linked detention

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2013 5:55 pm

FILE - In this May 10, 2011 file photo, Jose Morales, 7, a first-grader at Tracy Elementary School in the low-income community of Baldwin Park, spins a hula-hoop during after-school exercise activities in Baldwin Park, Calif. Minority and low-income parents are more likely to see serious problems in their schools, from low expectations to bullying and out-of-date technology and textbooks, than those who are affluent or white, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Poll. The divisions fall along the familiar fault lines of income, education and race that drive so much of American life. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

AP-NORC Poll: Race, income divide views of schools

JENNIFER AGIESTAPHILIP ELLIOTT · August 19, 2013 5:28 pm

Unemployment rates rise in most US states in July

Christopher Rugaber · August 19, 2013 3:59 pm

Lengthy federal role in civil rights cases

CONNIE CASSSUZANNE GAMBOA · August 19, 2013 6:49 am

In this photo taken March 10, 2011, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress, becomes emotional as he testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on the extent of the radicalization of American Muslims on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic leaders have generally supported President Barack Obama's stance on Egypt. But Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, Ellison said, "I would cut off aid but engage in intense diplomacy in Egypt and in the region to try to say, look, we will restore aid when you stop the bloodshed in the street and set up a path towards democracy that you were on before." He said, "In my mind, there's no way to say that this was not a coup. It is. We should say so. And then follow our own law, which says we cannot fund the coup leaders." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress split on cutting off aid to Egypt

Stephen Ohlemacher · August 19, 2013 4:21 am

President Barack Obama, second from left, Sasha Obama, and first lady Michelle Obama, are greeted as they exit Air Force One on arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Sunday Aug. 18, 2013, after a family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Also with them was Malia Obama, not pictured. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama returns to Washington after summer vacation

Darlene Superville · August 19, 2013 3:41 am

FILE - In this July 13, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman, center, talks to his attorneys Don West, left, and Mark O'Mara during jury deliberations in his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Almost as soon as Zimmerman was pronounced "not guilty, the cry of protestors went up, that the U.S. government must get "justice for Trayvon," the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, killed by Zimmerman. Attorney General Eric Holder, the first black man to lead the nation's law enforcement, says the Justice Department is investigating. But an investigation does not mean a case will move forward; these investigations can take months, even years, and are hard to prosecute. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool)

A look at federal role in civil rights cases

CONNIE CASSSUZANNE GAMBOA · August 18, 2013 2:11 pm

FILE - In this April 18, 2013, file photo, Burgess-Peterson Elementary School principal Robin Robbins, center, meets with students during an after-school study program in Atlanta, in preparation for state standardized testing, soon to begin. A new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds parents of school-age children view standardized tests as a useful way to track student progress and school quality. Most parents say their own children are given about the right number of standardized tests, according to the AP-NORC poll. And almost three quarters say they favor changes that would make it easier for schools to fire poorly performing teachers. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

AP-NORC Poll: Parents back high-stakes testing

JENNIFER AGIESTAPHILIP ELLIOTT · August 17, 2013 9:36 pm

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FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters regarding events in Egypt from his rental vacation home in Chilmark, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard. As Arab Spring democracy uprisings spread across the Middle East, Obama's response to the political unrest has been to voice support for people seeking representative governments but limit the role the United States will play to shape those efforts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Egypt challenges Obama’s Arab Spring philosophy

Julie Pace · August 17, 2013 2:54 pm

8 injured when insulation falls at DC music event

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2013 7:20 am