Tag: Nation

US to consider spousal abuse in immigration claims

US to consider spousal abuse in immigration claims

Alicia Caldwell · August 27, 2014 10:39 pm

National Security

Blackwater defense: Iraqi police removed evidence

Pete Yost · August 27, 2014 10:13 pm

This undated handout photo provided by NOAA shows Acropora globiceps which occurs in the Indo-Pacific; within U.S. waters it occurs in Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific Remote island areas and American Samoa. NOAA announced Wednesday it will afford Endangered Species Act protections to 20 coral species. All 20 species will be listed as threatened, none as endangered. Fifteen of the newly listed species occur in the Indo-Pacific and five in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Feds protect 20 species of coral as threatened

Seth Borenstein · August 27, 2014 10:05 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest briefs reporters during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Earnest started his briefing with a question on Syria. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama again faces Congress question on Syria

Julie Pace · August 27, 2014 8:51 pm

Immigration judges’ union wants independent court

Immigration judges’ union wants independent court

Alicia Caldwell · August 27, 2014 8:46 pm

How the US has justified overseas military action

How the US has justified overseas military action

The Associated Press · August 27, 2014 8:39 pm

Ukrainian soldiers park their hardware on roadside as they are waiting for the start of the march into the town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Heavy shelling hit a town of Novoazovsk in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, the third day of an assault that has forced government troops to spread their ranks thinner along the Russian border. Ukraine claimed the shelling was coming both from pro-Russian separatists and from Russia itself. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

US: Russia directing new offensive in Ukraine

Bradley Klapper · August 27, 2014 7:49 pm

NASA’s new giant rocket system passes milestone

NASA’s new giant rocket system passes milestone

Seth Borenstein · August 27, 2014 7:39 pm

Sources: US considering new relief mission in Iraq

National Security

Sources: US considering new relief mission in Iraq

Robert Burns · August 27, 2014 7:18 pm

Obama, Clinton to highlight DNC fundraiser

Obama, Clinton to highlight DNC fundraiser

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 6:36 pm

This undated image provided by the Army shows Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison Sr. Harrison, a two-star Army general faulted for failing to properly investigate sexual assault and other accusations against a colonel on his staff will be retired at one-star rank, the Army announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Chip Steitz)

National Security

Army knocks 2-star down to 1-star rank

Robert Burns · August 27, 2014 5:23 pm

Fallon to lead honors as Leno wins top humor prize

Brett Zongker · August 27, 2014 4:36 pm