Tag: Nation

Senator: Drop nomination of controversial judge

Senator: Drop nomination of controversial judge

Alan Fram · September 22, 2014 9:52 pm

Homelessness increases among school children

Homelessness increases among school children

Kimberly Hefling · September 22, 2014 7:32 pm

Prosecutor: more than 800 rounds of ammunition found in car of alleged White House intruder

Prosecutor: more than 800 rounds of ammunition found in car of alleged White House intruder

Washington Examiner · September 22, 2014 6:51 pm

A member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division looks out from the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The Secret Service tightened their guard outside the White House after Friday's embarrassing breach in the security of one of the most closely protected buildings in the world. A man is accused of scaling the White House perimeter fence, running across the lawn and entering the presidential mansion before agents stopped him. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: Secret Service does a ‘great job’

Washington Examiner · September 22, 2014 6:50 pm

FILE - In this June 30, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, pauses while making a statement about immigration reform, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Obama over time has been embraced and scorned by immigrant advocates who have viewed him as both a champion and an obstacle to their cause. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama has built a complicated immigration record

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 22, 2014 5:42 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The United Nations Security Council is expected to adopt a binding resolution this week that would require nations to bar their citizens from traveling abroad to join terrorism organizations, part of a U.S.-led effort to galvanize the international community against what Obama administration officials call an "unprecedented" threat from extremists flocking to Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

UN to bind nations on new foreign terrorist rules

Ken Dilanian · September 22, 2014 5:39 pm

FILE - In this July 29, 2014, file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, left, D-N.J., talks with ranking member Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Capitol Hill in Washington. In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez and Corker say they'll draft a bill in the lame-duck session repealing what they call outdated authorizations for the use of force and replace them with a new one. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Syria vote isn’t last word from Congress on war

BRADLEY KLAPPERDONNA CASSATA · September 22, 2014 4:20 pm

Justice Kagan performs her first same-sex wedding

Justice Kagan performs her first same-sex wedding

Washington Examiner · September 22, 2014 3:08 pm

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shake hands before a meeting at the Waldorf Astoria in New York Sunday Sept. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)

National Security

Kerry: US looking for help from Turkey against IS

Washington Examiner · September 22, 2014 12:36 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013, file photo, a worker levels the coal on a freight train in Taiyuan in northern China's Shanxi province. Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014, as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT

Energy and Environment

China, US, India push world carbon emissions up

Seth Borenstein · September 22, 2014 8:46 am

This Sept. 21, 2009 photo provided by Jerry Murphy shows Omar Gonzalez, who was married to Murphy's mother, Samantha, until they divorced in 2012. Authorities have identified Gonzalez as the man who got into the White House after scaling a fence on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jerry Murphy)

Ex-stepson: White House intruder meant no harm

LOLITA C. BALDORJOSH LEDERMAN · September 21, 2014 7:26 pm

UN ambassador: Others ready to fight Islamic State

UN ambassador: Others ready to fight Islamic State

Washington Examiner · September 21, 2014 1:17 pm