Tag: Nation

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012, file photo, Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Fla. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Jill Kelley can press her claim that the FBI and Defense Department violated her privacy when officials allegedly leaked information about her to the news media. Berman also tossed out more than a dozen other claims of government wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Judge: Lawsuit in Petraeus scandal can proceed

Sam Hananel · September 15, 2014 7:52 pm

National Security

Decades later, Vietnam soldiers get Medal of Honor

Josh Lederman · September 15, 2014 7:42 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, photo, U.S. troops listen to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as he speaks at the al Udeid air base in Qatar. Just miles from where former Guantanamo Bay terror suspects have resettled, American warplanes take off from a Qatar air base in the global war on extremism. Tiny but rich Qatar is an intriguing player in what President Barack Obama says will be a long battle to stop and eventually destroy the Islamic State group. The U.S. uses the air base as its main air operations center for the Middle East. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

Tiny Qatar plays outsize role in US war strategy

ROBERT BURNSADAM SCHRECK · September 15, 2014 7:17 pm

Kerry to chair UN Security Council meeting on Iraq

Kerry to chair UN Security Council meeting on Iraq

Matthew Lee · September 15, 2014 6:43 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2014 file photo, Valor Christian High School sophomore and volunteer Paige Kula loads a pallet with medical supplies bound for Sierra Leone to combat Ebola, inside the warehouse of Project C.U.R.E., in Centennial, Colo. The US strategy in fighting Ebola is two-pronged: Step up efforts to deliver desperately needed supplies and people to West Africa, while making sure hospitals at home know what to do if someone travels here with the infection. In addition to shipments of hospital beds and protective suits, the government is taking unusual steps to encourage a variety of health care workers to volunteer to go to the outbreak zone _ and is offering some training before they head out. Here are questions and answers on the U.S. response. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

US works to step up Ebola aid, but is it enough?

Lauran Neergaard · September 15, 2014 6:27 pm

$This 2012 image provided by Stanford University, shows fracking operations at a wellpad overlying the Marcellus Formation in Pennsylvania. A new study says that the drilling procedure called fracking didn't cause much-publicized cases of tainted water, blaming contamination on leaky natural gas wells instead. (AP Photo/Stanford University, Rob Jackson)$ News

Study: Leaky wells, not fracking, taint water

Seth Borenstein · September 15, 2014 5:51 pm

US creating programs to counter extremists

US creating programs to counter extremists

Washington Examiner · September 15, 2014 3:44 pm

FILE - In this March 2, 2013 file photo, a view of an oil field under control of Kurdish militias near the town of Deriq, in a Kurdish area of Syria, near the border with Iraq. The Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf nations for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts. The group, which has taken over large sections of Syria and Iraq, controls as many as 11 oil fields in both countries, analysts say. It is selling oil and other goods through generations-old smuggling networks under the noses of some of the same governments it is fighting: Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, Turkey and Jordan. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

National Security

Islamic State group’s war chest is growing daily

Ken Dilanian · September 15, 2014 3:16 pm

US reopens embassy in Central African Republic

US reopens embassy in Central African Republic

Washington Examiner · September 15, 2014 1:18 pm

Hurdles for Obama health law in 2nd sign-up season

Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · September 15, 2014 8:25 am

In this Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey is the big Muslim power that sits atop raging conflicts in Iraq and Syria, so it might be expected to take a leading role in the NATO coalition announced this month to take on the Islamic State group. Instead it told allies that it would stay quietly behind the scenes, keeping its soldiers out of combat operations and even declining to allow NATO to use its bases or territories to launch air attacks. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

White House still seeking coalition in Mideast war

CHARLES BABINGTONLARA JAKES · September 14, 2014 6:33 pm

File-This Aug. 28, 2014, file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking about the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Obama on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, condemned as a "barbaric murder" the slaying of British aid worker David Haines by Islamic State extremists. Haines was abducted last year in Syria, and extremists released a video on Saturday showing his beheading. In a statement issued Saturday night, Obama said the hearts of Americans go out to Haines' family and the people of the United Kingdom. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Obama condemns beheading of Briton by extremists

Washington Examiner · September 14, 2014 3:05 am