Tag: Nation

APNewsBreak: Pentagon may revise same-sex benefits

Lolita Baldor · August 7, 2013 9:16 pm

In this Wednesday, June 12, 2013 file photo, Jani McAllister browses through a sales rack outside Festivity, a boutique in Virginia Highlands, in Atlanta. The Federal Reserve reports how much consumers borrowed in June on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White)

US consumer borrowing rose $13.8 billion in June

Martin Crutsinger · August 7, 2013 9:05 pm

USDA says it will stop cotton payments to Brazil

MARY CLARE JALONICK · August 7, 2013 9:04 pm

FILE - In this May 28, 2013, file photo, recycled cardboard boxes are ready for transport outside a Walmart store in Duarte, Calif. Wal-Mart agreed Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, to improve safety conditions for employees who use trash compactors and cleaning chemicals at more than 2,800 stores as part of a settlement agreement with the Labor Department.. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Wal-Mart agrees to safety fixes at 2,857 stores

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2013 8:52 pm

US extends ban on gems imports from Myanmar

Matthew Pennington · August 7, 2013 8:18 pm

FILE - This April 8, 2013 file photo shows a worker cleaning empty cages used for transporting chickens, to prevent an outbreak of H7N9 infections at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong. Scientists who sparked an outcry by creating easier-to-spread versions of the bird flu want to try such experiments again using a worrisome new strain. Since it broke out in China in March, the H7N9 bird flu has infected more than 130 people and killed 43. Leading flu researchers say that genetically engineering this virus in the lab could help track whether itâs changing in the wild to become a bigger threat. They announced the pending plans Wednesday in letters to the journals Science and Nature. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Scientists plan controversial lab-made bird flu

Lauran Neergaard · August 7, 2013 6:54 pm

A goat grazes in the brush in a fenced off area at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. More than 100 goats will be taking over Washington's Historic Congressional Cemetery to help clean up brush in an area away from the graves. The goats will graze 24 hours a day for six days to eliminate vines, poison ivy and weeds, while also "fertilizing the ground." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Grazing goats to clean Capitol Hill cemetery in DC

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2013 4:52 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 30, 2013, file photo, A home is seen for sale Tuesday, July 30, 2013 in Gilbert, Ariz. Freddie Mac reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Freddie Mac earns $5 billion in second quarter

Marcy Gordon · August 7, 2013 2:51 pm

Schumer sees path to passage of immigration bill

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2013 12:01 pm

Closing Fannie, Freddie could boost mortgage rates

Andrew Miga · August 7, 2013 7:19 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, a man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. News reports say the Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. CNN, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, that unspecified counts had been filed in the 2012 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri, File)

AP sources: First charges filed in Benghazi attack

Donna Cassata · August 7, 2013 1:14 am

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 file photo, a Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.S. military evacuated non-essential U.S. government personnel from Yemen on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, due to the high threat of attack by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

US embassy closures a window into threat concern

Matthew Lee · August 7, 2013 12:23 am