Tag: Nation

United States Attorney Gen. Eric Holder speaks to the American Bar Association Annual meeting Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, in San Francisco. In remarks to the association, Holder said the Obama administration is calling for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would cut back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Holder goes after mandatory federal drug sentences

PAUL ELIASPETE YOST · August 12, 2013 10:16 pm

A look at federal prisons, by the numbers

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2013 9:54 pm

Cambodia suspends military programs with US

Matthew Pennington · August 12, 2013 9:34 pm

US providing $15m to fund for Syrian opposition

Bradley Klapper · August 12, 2013 8:03 pm

US urges NKorea to free detainee as health worsens

Associated Press · August 12, 2013 7:25 pm

This Oct. 4, 2010 file photo shows Attorney General Eric Holder speaking during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. Holder is calling for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh prison sentences for certain drug-related crimes, divert people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment and community service programs and expand a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, non-violent offenders. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Holder proposes changes in criminal justice system

Pete Yost · August 12, 2013 7:06 pm

US budget deficit down 37.6 percent through July

Martin Crutsinger · August 12, 2013 6:32 pm

In this Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013 photo, youngsters attending LitCamp, a summer reading program offered through the nonprofit literacy organization LitWorld, find sections of a rooftop patio for their independent reading, in New York's Harlem neighborhood. "We want to do something always fun," said Madison Graboyes, who runs the day camp. "They can read what they want. They are encouraged to feel positive about what they're learning," Graboyes added. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Not vacation: Summer learning programs crucial

Philip Elliott · August 12, 2013 7:27 am

Mari Torres, 39, poses for a picture in her office in Springfield, Va., Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Each year, consumers return about $264 billion worth of merchandise, almost nine percent of total sales, according to industry estimates, but many people are not aware that some of their returns are being monitored at stores that outsource information on shoppers who return merchandise to a third-party company. âI had absolutely no idea they were doing that,â said Torres. "I honestly think itâs an invasion of privacy,â she says. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Retailers keeping tabs on consumers’ return habits

Jennifer Kerr · August 12, 2013 7:26 am

FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold "Hal" Rogers, R-Ky., talks about his role as a pain manager of the nationâs fiscal difficulties in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tea party forces may have dominated the House GOPâs approach to the budget so far, but pragmatists in the party, like Rogers, have served notice they wonât stand idly by for indiscriminate spending cuts to politically popular community development grants, education programs and even Amtrak. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FILE)

GOP moderates push back on tea party spending cuts

Andrew Taylor · August 12, 2013 7:08 am

In this photo taken Aug. 9, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry listens to translation as he meets with Russian Foreign and Defense ministers at the State Department in Washington, a sit-down tainted by the case of American National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, currently in Russia. This week on Kerry's first visit to South America as the Obama administration's chief diplomat, the disclosures by Snowden could chill talks on trade and energy, and even discussions about the Oct. 23 state dinner that President Barack Obama is hosting for Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Chilly reception for Kerry in Brazil, Colombia?

Deb Riechmann · August 12, 2013 4:18 am

FILE - In this July 30, 2013, file frame grab from Rossiya 24 television channel, Lon Snowden, the father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, speaks during an interview with Russian the state-owned Rossiya 24 television in Washington. Lon Snowden says he has secured a visa to visit his son in Russia. Snowden and family attorney Bruce Fein aren't saying when they'll visit Russia. They also say they haven't spoken directly with his son since he fled the United States for Russia, which has given him asylum. (AP Photo/Rossiya 24 via APTN, File) TV OUT

Snowden’s father gets visa to visit son in Russia

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2013 2:18 pm