Tag: Nation

US manufacturing production slipped 0.1 percent in July, reflecting drop in auto output

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2013 1:16 pm

Weekly applications for US unemployment benefits drop to 6-year low of 320K as layoffs ease

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2013 12:31 pm

US consumer prices rise 0.2 percent in July as food, energy costs increase at modest pace

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2013 12:31 pm

FILE - This Aug. 10, 2013 file photo shows Yemeni soldiers inspecting a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the U.S. and British embassies in Sanaa, Yemen. In secretive chat rooms and on encrypted Internet message boards, al-Qaida fighters have been planning and coordinating attacks _ including a threatened if vague plot that U.S. intelligence officials say closed 19 embassies across Africa and the Middle East for more than a week. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Online forums provide key havens for terror plots

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2013 7:32 am

Education Department makes changes to PLUS loans

Shaquille Brewster · August 15, 2013 12:20 am

Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., leaves federal court in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Jackson was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on TV's, restaurant dinners, an expensive watch and other costly personal items. His wife received a sentence of one year. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Prison for Jesse Jackson Jr.: a 2 ½-year sentence

FREDERIC J. FROMMERJESSICA GRESKO · August 14, 2013 9:42 pm

This undated publicity image released by Random House shows journalist Jack W. Germond. Germond, 85, the portly, cantankerous columnist and pundit who covered 10 presidential elections and sparred with colleagues on TV's "The McLaughlin Group," died Wednesday morning, Aug. 14, 2013. He had recently finished his first novel, "A Small Story for Page Three," about a reporter investigating political intrigue, being published Friday. Germond wrote two memoirs, "Fat Man in a Middle Seat: Forty Years of Covering Politics," and "Fat Man Fed Up: How American Politics Went Bad." (AP Photo/Random House, David Burnett)

Longtime political columnist Germond dead at 85

Ben Nuckols · August 14, 2013 8:52 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a statement on the ongoing situation in Egypt before the start of a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Kerry said the violence in Egypt is deplorable and is a serious blow to reconciliation efforts. He says it runs counter to Egyptians' aspirations for peace. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US: Egypt violence ‘serious blow’ to peace efforts

JULIE PACEMATTHEW LEE · August 14, 2013 8:24 pm

New tool peeks into brain to measure consciousness

Lauran Neergaard · August 14, 2013 7:43 pm

FILE - This Aug. 10, 2013 file photo shows Yemeni soldiers inspecting a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the U.S. and British embassies in Sanaa, Yemen. In secretive chat rooms and on encrypted Internet message boards, al-Qaida fighters have been planning and coordinating attacks _ including a threatened if vague plot that U.S. intelligence officials say closed 19 embassies across Africa and the Middle East for more than a week. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Terrorists turn to online chat rooms to evade US

Washington Examiner · August 14, 2013 7:16 pm

Kerry: Violence in Egypt is ‘serious blow’ to reconciliation efforts

Washington Examiner · August 14, 2013 6:23 pm

FILE - In this April 18, 2013, file photo, Thomas Perez testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2013, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on his nomination as Labor Secretary. With Perez now confirmed as head of the Labor Department, the agency is expected to unleash a flurry of new regulations that have been bottled up for months _ a prospect that has business leaders worried and labor advocates cheering. Some long-awaited rules would help boost employment for veterans and the disabled, increase wages for home health care workers, and set new limits for workplace exposure to dangerous silica dust. Other more controversial rules and actions could help labor unions in organizing campaigns and allow union officials to take part in safety inspections at non-union companies. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Likely Labor regs would aid vets, disabled, unions

Sam Hananel · August 14, 2013 5:49 pm