Tag: Associated Press

FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 file photo shows an American Airlines plane and a US Airways plane at parked at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, the Justice Department says it has reached an agreement to allow the merger of the two airlines. The agreement requires them to scale back the size of the merger at key airports in Washington and other big cities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Government reaches agreement to allow airline merger

Washington Examiner · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Al Jazeera America reported it had obtained a sealed FBI affidavit alleging Ron Calderon Montebello accepted $88,000 in return for his help promoting bills. (AP Photo)

Lawmakers weigh action against embattled California senator

Associated Press · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Seat belts on commercial buses have been delayed 45 years

Washington Examiner · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Springer's Sanitation drops off a load of garbage at the Watertown CRRA transfer station on Echo Lake Road in Watertown. CRRA needs to develop new sources of revenue and make other changes to remain financially viable, according to an outside review. (Republican-American)

Energy and Environment

Report advises changes for Connecticut trash agency

Associated Press · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Rep.Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., is distancing himself from the administration and heeding GOP calls to delay key parts of the health care law. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Health care law could be liability for Democrats

Associated Press · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2009 photo shows village malaria worker Phoun Sokha, 47, showing his malaria medicine kit at O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless. This time, scientists have confirmed the first signs of resistance to the only affordable treatment left in the global medicine cabinet for malaria: Artemisinin. U.S. experts are raising the alarm over the spread of drug-resistant malaria in several Southeast Asian countries, endangering major global gains in fighting the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 600,000 people annually. The report warns that could be a health catastrophe in the making, as no alternative anti-malarial drug is on the horizon. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)

Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia

Associated Press, Matthew Pennington · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND APRIL 30-May 1 ** In this undated photo provided ConocoPhillips, two ConocoPhillips emploees overlook pipelines on the West Sak oil field on Alaska's North Slope. BP and ConocoPhillips are betting that heavy oil in Alaska will result in a big payoff. Heavy oil, which has the consistency of thick molasses instead of olive oil, lies in sandstone above the huge reservoir of North Slope light oil that has been flowing down the trans-Alaska pipeline since 1977. With that reservoir being drawn down, the Texas-based companies are turning to hard-to-pump heavy oil to extend the life of the oil fields. (AP Photo/ConocoPhillips, Judy Patrick)

Energy and Environment

Alaska lawmakers touring Point Thomson petroleum field

Washington Examiner · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Global Aviation Holdings Inc., the largest provider of private airlift services to the military, has filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware, citing the cancellation of missions. (Photo: Thinkstock)

National Security

Airlift supplier to US military in bankruptcy

Randall Chase · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Defendant Bobby Thompson, who authorities say is a Harvard-trained attorney and former military intelligence officer named John Donald Cody, looks over papers during his trial Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP/Tony Dejak)

Defendant may take stand in Cleveland fraud trial

Associated Press · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

(AP File)

High court considers whistleblower protections

Washington Examiner · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

Peggy Lynch, center, facing camera, wife of outgoing Seattle mayor Mike McGinn, is handcuffed and waits to be loaded into Bellevue Police van after her arrest with other immigration reform protesters, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, at Washington State Republican Party Headquarters in Bellevue. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Ken Lambert)

Group condemns former Washington state GOP chair ‘hags’ tweet

Washington Examiner · November 12, 2013 5:00 am

The Supreme Court is declining to revive Oklahoma's strict ultrasound law for women seeking abortions. (Thinkstock Image)

Supreme Court won’t hear Oklahoma ultrasound case

Associated Press · November 12, 2013 5:00 am