Tag: PennAve

"The Koran teaches us that God's children tread gently on the earth," he said. "â¦We affirm that whatever our faith, we are one family." (AP)

Obama talks religious freedom, Charleston slayings at Iftar dinner

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2015 8:37 am

OPM silence leaves workers, lawmakers guessing and grumbling

Nicole Duran · June 23, 2015 6:14 am

A Secret Service agent covers up from the wind as Marine One lands in New York City with President Barack Obama. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Exclusive: Secret Service officer loses his gun outside girlfriend’s apartment

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

Republican anxiety over the Confederate flag revealed

David M. Drucker · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

Czech soldiers participate in the NATO Noble Jump military exercises of the VJTF forces on June 18, 2015 in Zagan, Poland. The VJTF, the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, is NATO's response to Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Troops from Germany, Norway, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Holland were among those taking part today. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

National Security

Pentagon chief seeks to reassure nervous Baltic states

Charles Hoskinson · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

Inside the super PACs putting Ben Carson on top

Ryan Lovelace · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

Survivors of pediatric cancer are living longer, a new study found. (AP)

Medicare lacks tools for evaluating cancer care

Robert King · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

In this file photo taken Feb. 14, 2011, construction progresses on the John W. Turk, Jr., power plant near Fulton, Ark. Environmental groups and an electric utility agreed Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 to settle their litigation over the $2.1 billion coal-fired electric generation plant still under construction. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Energy and Environment

Coal industry urges White House to change rules for new power plants

John Siciliano · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

"This year, more than half of our states guarantee their workers a wage higher than the federal minimum, but despite this progress we still have work to do," Obama said in a statement. (Getty)

Obama hails Rhode Island’s minimum wage hike

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2015 1:25 am

Boehner joins call to remove Confederate flag from South Carolina

Susan Ferrechio · June 23, 2015 12:57 am

Coast Guard Vice Commandant Peter Neffenger is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2015, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on his nomination to head the Transportation Security Administration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate confirms new leader for dysfunctional TSA

Nicole Duran · June 23, 2015 12:27 am

"A single American life is worth more than all the guns in the United States," Martin O'Malley said while giving a speech at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco. (AP Photo)

OMalley: A single life ‘worth more than all the guns in the United States’

Ariel Cohen · June 22, 2015 11:51 pm