Susan Crabtree

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A top adviser to the secretary of state, Marie Harf said Wednesday that she is not responsible for pushing to selectively edit a State Department briefing video in 2013 to delete a discussion about the Iran nuclear agreement. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

National Security

Second ex-State Dept. spokeswoman denies pushing for Iran video edits

Susan Crabtree · June 2, 2016 2:52 pm

Psaki, who's controversial comments were clipped from the video, said she didn't order the edit. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Ex-State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki: It wasn’t me

Susan Crabtree · June 1, 2016 9:21 pm

Elkhart, he said, is symbolic of American's recovery and the fruitfulness of his policies. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama wants ‘intervention’ against Trump’s economic plan

Susan Crabtree · June 1, 2016 9:12 pm

Obama has requested $1.9 billion in funding to help public health professionals across the country prepare for and fight the Zika virus. (Paulo Fridman/Bloomberg, File)

White House: GOP’s Zika plan is to ‘deny … there is a problem’

Susan Crabtree · June 1, 2016 7:00 pm

President Obama is holding listening sessions with the LGBT community as he considers designating the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and an adjoining park as the first LGBT rights monument. (AP Photo)

White House mum on possibility of first LGBT monument

Susan Crabtree · May 31, 2016 9:32 pm

"There was certainly a discussion about how the very early effects of climate change are putting some communities across the country at even greater risk from a hurricane," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday during his daily briefing. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Energy and Environment

WH: Climate change will make hurricane season worse

Susan Crabtree · May 31, 2016 8:44 pm

White House spokesman Josh Earnest was unequivocal in his response to a question on whether President Obama agreed with Eric Holder's perception that Edward Snowden's actions had some redeeming qualities for the public. (AP Photo)

Obama disagrees with Holder on Snowden

Susan Crabtree · May 31, 2016 7:50 pm

National Security

White House condemns North Korea’s failed missile launch

Susan Crabtree · May 31, 2016 6:53 pm

President Obama stands by his earlier statement that Hillary Clinton didn't do anything to jeopardize national security by using a private server for all of her work email when she ran the State Department, White House spokesman said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama still thinks Clinton email use didn’t hurt national security

Susan Crabtree · May 31, 2016 6:39 pm

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron won the backing of other G7 leaders in Japan to keep his country in the European Union. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

G7 warns Brexit would pose risk to global growth

Susan Crabtree · May 27, 2016 11:43 am

President Obama greets members of the U.S. and Japanese military as he arrives to speak at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Iwakuni, Japan, on Friday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Obama thanks U.S., Japanese troops before Hiroshima visit

Susan Crabtree · May 27, 2016 11:19 am

Obama in Hiroshima: ‘We must change our mindset’ on war

National Security

Obama in Hiroshima: ‘We must change our mindset’ on war

Susan Crabtree · May 27, 2016 10:33 am