Tag: Associated Press

Pennsylvania Democratic congressional hopeful Kevin Strouse, shown here Oct. 3, is one of many veterans who have been recruited to run for House seats. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Parties recruit veterans to run for House in 2014

Associated Press · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, to discus his recent trip to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

US Sen. Jack Reed urges Congress to aid food banks

Associated Press · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, Jimmetta Smith, of Lithonia, Ga., right, the wife of a U.S. Marine veteran, holds her resume while talking with Rhonda Knight, a senior recruiter for Delta airlines, at a job fair for veterans and family members at the VFW Post 2681, in Marietta, Ga. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Gauge of US economy’s health edges up 0.2 percent

Associated Press, Martin Crutsinger · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

Officials inspect the towboat Stephen L. Colby Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 which sank Monday on the Mississippi River waterfront in LeClaire, Iowa, after striking a submerged object. Officials closed the river to barge traffic and are assessing environmental damage from the 100,000 gallons of diesel fuel and oil that leaked into the water. Nine crew members safely escaped. (AP Photo/The Quad City Times, Kevin E. Schmidt) MANDITORY CREDIT

Energy and Environment

Cleanup of fuel leaking from sunken boat continues

David Pitt · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks about his call for a special session of the state Legislature to delay shifting more than 100,000 Wisconsinites to the federal health insurance exchange during a press conference in Madison, Wis., on Nov. 14. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King)

Proposal delaying health care coverage could save Wisconsin $23 million

Associated Press · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

Joe Biden chases place at center of Obama’s orbit

Associated Press · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

FOR STORY BY SOPHIA TAREEN TO RUN WEDNESDAY PMS, NOV. 27 - This June 2011photo provided by Starbelly Studios in Chicago shows Vernita Gray, left, and Patricia Ewert smiling during their civil union ceremony at Millennium Park in Chicago. U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, ordered the Cook County clerk to issue an expedited marriage license to Gray and Ewert before the state's gay marriage law takes effect in June 2014. Gray is terminally ill. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Starbelly Studios, Timmy Samuel) MANDATORY CREDIT

Illinois same-sex couple set to be first to wed

Associated Press · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

The average price of gasoline has tumbled 49 cents from their peak this year to $3.29 a gallon, putting shoppers on track to have the lowest prices at the pump since 2010, according to AAA. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Why holiday sales could ride on lower gas prices

Associated Press · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

In this Nov. 14, 2013 photo, a Taser X26 is shown as Knightstown Police Chief Danny Baker talks about being shot by the weapon to raise money for his department in Knightstown, Ind. Baker is trying to raise money to lease a new car for the department by agreeing to be shot with his Taser. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Police chief in Indiana to be shot with Taser to raise money

Rick Callahan · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

A gas station employee counts money as he walks away from pumping a vehicle at the intersection of State Highway 139 and John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City, N.J., where a Lukoil gas station advertises gas for $2.99, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Crude oil below $93 as US supplies seen rising

Pablo Gorondi · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

This satellite image provided by TerraServer.com and DigitalGlobe shows an image captured on Sept. 2, 2010, shows a portion of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the secret facility known as Penny Lane, upper middle in white. In the early years after 9/11, the CIA turned a handful of prisoners at the secret facility into double agents and released them. Current and former U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the program helped kill terrorists. The program was carried out in the secret facility, built a few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the prison in Guantanamo Bay, bottom of image. The eight small cottages were hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus. (AP Photo/TerraServer.com and DigitalGlobe)

National Security

Penny Lane: Gitmo’s other secret CIA facility

adam-goldman · November 26, 2013 8:42 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday said he would not sign the bill that passed the Senate because its benefits are too generous. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Immigrant tuition bill will go to Chris Christie ‘as is’

Associated Press · November 26, 2013 5:00 am