Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2009 file photo, pallbearers carry the casket of 4-year-old Roberto Lopez Jr., outside Our Lady of Angels Church in Los Angeles. The boy was shot in the chest a week earlier as he walked with his 5-year-old sister in a gang-plagued Echo Park neighborhood. In the wake of the Dec. 14, 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the small town of Newtown, Conn., there is now much political discussion about gun control. For urban advocates, this new emphasis on gun control is long overdue. (AP Photo/Mark Boster, Pool, File)

Urban advocates say new gun control talk overdue

Jesse Washington · December 22, 2012 9:15 pm

Head of national nuke security agency departing

Washington Examiner · December 22, 2012 8:06 pm

Fuel tanker overturns, leaks fuel on I-65 in Ala.

Washington Examiner · December 22, 2012 7:47 pm

In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, an American bittern hides in the grass during an annual 24-hour Christmastime ritual to count birds along the Texas Gulf Coast in Mad Island, Texas. The data collected, with the help of more than 50 other volunteers spread out into six groups across the 7,000-acre Mad Island preserve, will be regionally and nationally analyzed, landing in a broad database that includes results from hundreds of other bird counts going on nationally during a two week period. What began 113 years ago as an Audobon Society protest to annual bird hunts that left piles of carcasses littered in different parts of the country now helps scientists understand how birds react to short-term weather events, such as drought and flooding, and seek clues on how they might behave as temperatures rise and climate changes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues

Ramit PlushnickMasti · December 22, 2012 7:40 pm

This Nov. 28, 2012 photo provided by The United States Coast Guard shows a WWII minesweeper on the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Mo. The lack of rain has left many rivers at low levels unseen for decades offering a glimpse at things not normally seen. The minesweeper, once moored along the Mississippi River as a museum at St. Louis before it was torn away by floodwaters two decades ago, has become visible _ rusted but intact. (AP Photo/United States Coast Guard, Colby Buchanan)

Low-water rivers offering up glimpse of history

Jim Salter · December 22, 2012 6:21 pm

This Dec. 19, 2012 image shows a frame grab of gofundme.com. This web page solicits donations to rebuild a New York restaurant, The Good Fork. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, some who lost their homes or businesses have turned to crowd-funding websites. (AP Photo/gofundme.com)

Crowd-funding draws donations for Sandy relief

Brett Zongker · December 22, 2012 4:04 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Hopes for avoiding the "fiscal cliff" that threatens the U.S. economy fell Friday after fighting among congressional Republicans cast doubt on whether any deal reached with President Barack Obama could win approval ahead of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts kick in Jan. 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘Fiscal cliff’ leaves Boehner a wounded speaker

Alan Fram · December 22, 2012 2:07 pm

US Attorney in Utah collects $31M in 2012

Washington Examiner · December 22, 2012 11:12 am

Plans pass Senate to rename post office for Marine

Washington Examiner · December 22, 2012 9:01 am

2 adults fatally shot inside Alabama nightclub

Washington Examiner · December 22, 2012 8:49 am

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where Adam Lanza opened fatally shot 27 people, including 20 children. People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible _ partly because as commonplace as these calamities seem, they are relatively rare crimes. Still, a combination of risk factors in troubled kids or adults including drug use and easy access to guns can increase the likelihood of violence, experts say. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Predicting who’s at risk for violence isn’t easy

Lindsey Tanner · December 22, 2012 8:32 am

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2009 file photo, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, whispers with the U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, as Kai Eide head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is seen, center, during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. Kerry, President Barack Obamaâs choice for secretary of state, is a familiar face to the world leaders vital to American interests. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Kerry a familiar face on the world stage

Donna Cassata · December 22, 2012 8:08 am