Tag: Nation

Judge: Mass. sex change inmate’s lawyers get $700K

Washington Examiner · December 20, 2012 1:46 am

Cars navigate along the Marsha Sharp Freeway during a dust storm in Lubbock, Texas, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. A dust storm in West Texas triggered a series of accidents Wednesday that killed one person, injured at least 17 others and led authorities to close part of Interstate 27 north of Lubbock, a spokesman with the Texas Department of Public Safety said. (AP Photo/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Zach Long) ALL LOCAL TV OUT

1 dead, 17 injured in Texas dust storm accidents

Washington Examiner · December 20, 2012 1:38 am

Woman said to be drug lord’s daughter is freed

Elliot Spagat · December 20, 2012 1:23 am

President Barack Obama speaks at the Diplomatic Corps Holiday Reception at the State Department, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama says world stands with US after shootings

Ken Thomas · December 20, 2012 1:16 am

Asperger’s referenced in Wyo. college killing note

Mead Gruver · December 20, 2012 12:32 am

FILE - This Nov. 8, 2012 file photo shows marijuana plants flourishing under the lights at a grow house in Denver. President Barack Obama says he won't go after Washington state and Colorado for legalizing marijuana. In a Barbara Walters interview airing Friday on ABC, Obama is asked whether he supports making pot legal. He says, "I wouldn't go that far." (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Will cigarette makers jump into pot market?

Nicholas Geranios · December 20, 2012 12:31 am

Slain Conn. teacher remembered as selfless hero

Washington Examiner · December 20, 2012 12:16 am

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011 file photo provided by Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. The Army says it will seek the death penalty against Bales, accused of massacring 16 Afghan villagers during pre-dawn raids in March. The announcement Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 followed a pretrial hearing last month for Bales, who faces premeditated murder and other charges in the attack on two villages in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)

US Army seeks death penalty in 16 Afghan killings

Gene Johnson · December 19, 2012 11:54 pm

FILE - This Nov. 1, 2012, file photo shows former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel speaking in Omaha, Neb. President Barack Obama's possible pick of Republican Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon raises serious concerns among some of his former Senate colleagues, who question his pronouncements on Iraq, Israel and the Middle East. The reservations publicly expressed by a few Republicans and even a Democrat hardly rival the unyielding GOP objections to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who withdrew from consideration last week for secretary of state in the face of relentless attacks mostly over her public statements about the Sept. 11 assault on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Possible Hagel pick raises concerns in Senate GOP

Donna Cassata · December 19, 2012 11:54 pm

A school bus rolls towards a memorial for victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. Classes resume Tuesday for Newtown schools except those at Sandy Hook. Buses ferrying students to schools were festooned with large green and white ribbons on the front grills, the colors of Sandy Hook. At Newtown High School, students in sweatshirts and jackets, many wearing headphones, betrayed mixed emotions. Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

New school to re-create the old for Newtown pupils

John Christoffersen · December 19, 2012 11:16 pm

Mikulski to head Appropriations, senator says

Jim Abrams · December 19, 2012 11:13 pm

Arizona group eyes allowing guns in schools

Paul Davenport · December 19, 2012 11:07 pm