Tag: Nation

Lincoln Memorial vandalism cleanup complete

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2013 3:55 pm

FILE - This June 6, 213 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the intelligence agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington Post reports. In one case, telephone calls from Washington were intercepted when the city's area code was confused with the dialing code for Egypt. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Report: NSA spying broke privacy rules many times

Kimberly Dozier · August 16, 2013 3:52 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 9, 2013, file photo, a zero net energy home under construction is seen from the interior of another at The Preserve at Mountain Vista in New Paltz, N.Y. The Commerce Department reports the pace at which builders broke ground on homes in July on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

US builders broke ground on more homes in July

Christopher Rugaber · August 16, 2013 3:15 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 8, 2013, file photo, Jeff Caldwell, 29, right, a chassis assembly line supervisor, checks a vehicle on the assembly line at the Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit. The government reports on worker productivity and labor costs in the April-June quarter on Friday,Aug. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

US worker productivity up modestly in April-June

Paul Wiseman · August 16, 2013 1:08 pm

US builders started work on more homes in July, led by a jump in apartment construction

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2013 12:32 pm

FILE - In this Friday, July 12, 2013, file photo, shoppers peruse the aisles at a Wal-Mart in Bristol, Pa. Americans increased their spending at an annual rate of just 1.8 percent in the April-June quarter, down from a 2.3 percent rate in the January-March period. Consumer spending is expected to improve in the second half of the year. But most economists foresee only a slight acceleration to an annual rate of 2 percent to 2.5 percent. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Tepid US retail sales raising doubts about economy

ANNE D'INNOCENZIOCHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER · August 16, 2013 4:01 am

FILE - In this July 31, 2013, file photo, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon. Hagel has ordered his top leaders to be sure to only base their judicial decisions on facts and their own independent judgment. The one-page memo tells the military that even though senior U.S. leaders may openly condemn sexual assault, drug abuse, hazing and other crimes, such comments are not intended to sway the outcome of any particular case.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Hagel looks to cut impact of recent Obama remarks

Lolita Baldor · August 15, 2013 10:16 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari take their seats at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, before a meeting. Kerry met Thursday with the foreign minister, and said that since he visited Baghdad in March, some progress has been made to stop Iraq from being a transit zone for weapons. But he says "very significant" progress has yet to be made. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US warns of rising threat from al-Qaida in Iraq

Deb Riechmann · August 15, 2013 10:08 pm

Sentencing panel to focus on mandatory minimums

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2013 8:50 pm

Judge: EPA may have tried to skirt disclosure law

Frederic J. Frommer · August 15, 2013 8:41 pm

A decade of Pentagon struggles bared at trial

DAVID DISHNEAUPAULINE JELINEK · August 15, 2013 8:13 pm

This undated photo provided by the Smithsonian Institution shows an olinguito. The Smithsonian announced Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013 that they have discovered that the mammal, which they had previously mistaken for an olingo, is actually a distinct species. The olinguito belongs to the grouping of large creatures that include dogs, cats and bears. The raccoon-sized critters leap through the trees of the cloud forests of Ecuador and Colombia at night, according to a Smithsonian researcher who has spent the past decade tracking them. (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution, Mark Gurney)

Adorable new mammal species found ‘in plain sight’

Seth Borenstein · August 15, 2013 7:08 pm