Tag: Nation

High court refuses to delay Calif. prison releases

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2013 7:59 pm

Halfway house for woman charged in DC vandalism

Jessica Gresko · August 2, 2013 7:56 pm

FILE - In this June 10, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Struggling to salvage a massive surveillance program, Obama faced congressional critics of the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' telephone records Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, as snowballing concerns made new limitations on the intelligence effort appear increasingly likely. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Senate seeks numbers from NSA on phone collection

Donna Cassata · August 2, 2013 7:52 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, where she told reporters that Congress has too much critical, unfinished work to be leaving for a five-week recess. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Health care fix spares insurance hike for Congress

Josh Lederman · August 2, 2013 7:46 pm

FILE IN this July 17, 2013 file photo, acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) head Daniel Werfel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. A GOP lawmaker accused the IRS of obstructing congressional investigations into the agency's targeting of tea party groups, a charge the head of the IRS denied. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said the IRS has been slow to produce documents that are so thoroughly blacked out they are useless to investigators. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rep. Issa accuses IRS of obstructing investigation

Stephen Ohlemacher · August 2, 2013 7:22 pm

Supreme Court won’t delay release of California prison inmates

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2013 6:37 pm

FILE - In this July 29, 2013, file photo, demonstrators in support of fast food workers march towards a McDonald's as they demand higher wages and the right to form a union without retaliation in New York's Union Square. Labor leaders are getting more creative _ and some say more desperate _ in trying to boost their sagging numbers. Unions are helping non-union fast food workers around the country hold strikes to protest low wages and poor working conditions. They are organizing home day care workers, university graduate students and even newly legalized marijuana dealers.

Unions get creative to halt decline in membership

Sam Hananel · August 2, 2013 6:20 pm

House OKs 40th effort to repeal health law

Alan Fram · August 2, 2013 5:56 pm

A variety of foods labeled Gluten Free are displayed in Frederick, Md., Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. Consumers are going to know exactly what they are getting when they buy foods labeled "gluten free." The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is at last defining what a "gluten free" label on a food package really means after more than six years of consideration. Until now, manufacturers have been able to use their own discretion as to how much gluten they include. Under an FDA rule announced Friday, products labeled "gluten free" still won't have to be technically free of wheat, rye and barley and their derivatives. But they almost will: "Gluten-free" products will have to contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

FDA defining what “gluten free” means on packages

MARY CLARE JALONICK · August 2, 2013 5:49 pm

Obama seeks new post for ousted labor board member

The Associated Press · August 2, 2013 5:34 pm

FILE - In this July 17, 2013 file photo U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. nominee Samantha Power testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate easily confirmed President Barack Obama's selection for ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, capping a month in which senators used a bipartisan truce on once-mired nominations to fill a cluster of vacancies in the president's second-term administration. Senators approved Samantha Power for the post by 87-10. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Samantha Power sworn in as new US ambassador to UN

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2013 3:14 pm

In this still image taken on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 and released by Russia24 TV channel, shows Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, second right in the center, and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, center back to a camera, as Snowden leaves Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. Snowden has received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow's airport, his lawyer said Thursday. Kucherena said that Snowden's whereabouts will be kept secret for security reasons. (AP Photo/Russia24 via Associated Press Television) TV OUT

US careful not to let Snowden destroy Russia ties

Bradley Klapper · August 2, 2013 3:04 pm