Tag: Nation

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Democratic leaders discuss the government shutdown and their disagreement with Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. There has been no sign of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. From left to right are Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

No. 2 House Democrat: GOP lawmakers running scared

Washington Examiner · October 7, 2013 11:46 am

In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, Marcelo del Canto, right, a budget analyst for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, demonstrates during a rally against the government shut down during a federal union workers demonstration with congressmen outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. These days, many federal workers are frustrated, anxious and growing tired of being pawns in a never-ending political struggle over government funding. Both he and his federally-employed wife been furloughed and worry about making the next mortgage payment on a house they bought in March. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US government work is losing cachet for some

Sam Hananel · October 7, 2013 8:18 am

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-Shabab fighters just outside Mogadishu prepare to travel into the city in pickup trucks after vowing there would be new waves of attacks against Ethiopian troops. International military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, against foreign fighters in the same southern Somalia village where U.S. Navy SEALS four years ago killed a most-wanted al-Qaida operative, officials said. The strike comes exactly two weeks after al-Shabab militants attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall, a four-day terrorist assault that killed at least 67 people in neighboring Kenya. Al-Shabab has a formal alliance with al-Qaida, and hundreds of foreign fighters from the U.S., Britain and Middle Eastern countries fight alongside Somali members of al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Raids suggest future shape of counterterror bids

Associated Press, Robert Burns · October 7, 2013 4:10 am

Cardinal Donald Wuerl walk with U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts as they leave the church, after the Red Mass at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. The Supreme Court's new term starts tomorrow, Monday, Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court term begins with contentious topics

Mark Sherman · October 6, 2013 6:51 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., left, arrives at a news conference to discuss the government shutdown and their disagreement with Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. There has been no sign of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

How the impasses in Washington might play out

Charles Babington · October 6, 2013 6:37 pm

In this Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, photo provided by CBS News U.S. Treasury Jacob Lew speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Lew said Congress needs to quickly pass legislation re-opening the government and also a measure boosting the nation's $16.7 trillion debt limit. Lew said President Barack Obama has not changed his opposition to tying these measures to Republican demands on health care and spending cuts. "What we've seen is ... 'Unless I get my way, you know, that we'll bring these terrible consequences of shutdown or default,' " Lew said Sunday. "Those kinds of threats have to stop." (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

Boehner to Obama: No debt hike without concessions

DONNA CASSATAMARTIN CRUTSINGER · October 6, 2013 6:21 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate are at an impasse, neither side backing down, after House GOP conservatives linked the funding bill to President Obama's existent health care law. There has been no sign of progress toward ending the government shutdown that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Boehner: No idea when government shutdown ends

Washington Examiner · October 6, 2013 2:25 pm

Cruz: Tie debt-ceiling rise to ‘Obamacare’ changes

Cruz: Tie debt-ceiling rise to ‘Obamacare’ changes

Michele Salcedo · October 6, 2013 2:08 pm

Lew warns of dangers if borrowing limit not raised

Lew warns of dangers if borrowing limit not raised

Martin Crutsinger · October 6, 2013 1:02 pm

FILE - In this June 11, 2013, file photo B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama's nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), testifies at his nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. To the committee Jones knowledge that the ATF is "very much in distress". And repairing the agency, which is still boxed in by politics despite the gun debate, has not been easy for Jones so far. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Despite gun debate, ATF still boxed in by politics

Alicia Caldwell · October 6, 2013 12:46 pm

Obama: Iran ‘year or more’ from getting bomb

Julie Pace · October 6, 2013 8:40 am

CORRECTS AMY CAREY TO AMY CAREY-JONES - Amy Carey-Jones, center, sister of Mariam Carey, listens as her sister Valarie, left, takes questions from the media outside her home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, in New York. Law-enforcement authorities have identified Miriam Carey, 34, as the woman who, with a 1-year-old child in her car, led Secret Service and police on a harrowing chase in Washington from the White House past the Capitol Thursday, attempting to penetrate the security barriers at both national landmarks before she was shot to death, police said. The child survived. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Use of force to be studied in DC police chase

ERIC TUCKERLARRY NEUMEISTER · October 6, 2013 3:48 am