Tag: Nation

Biden voices support for Georgia’s NATO wishes

Biden voices support for Georgia’s NATO wishes

Washington Examiner · August 22, 2014 3:59 pm

FILE - This Aug. 20, 2014 file photo shows Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey speaking at Madison Square Garden in New York. During a Pentagon briefing Thursday, Dempsey said it's possible to contain the Islamic State militants, but it can't be done permanently without going after the group in Syria. Speaking to reporters with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Dempsey said he wasn't predicting U.S. airstrikes in Syria, but said the problem must be addressed diplomatically, politically and militarily by America and its regional partners. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

National Security

Dempsey hits Islamic militant ‘end-of-days’ vision

Washington Examiner · August 22, 2014 11:56 am

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, file photo, police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer on Aug. 9, in Ferguson, Mo. The national legal standards that govern when police officers are justified using force against people trace their lineage to a 1984 case from Charlotte, N.C. Brown's shooting has prompted multiple investigations and triggered days of rioting reflecting long-simmering racial tensions in a town of mostly black residents and a majority white police force. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Supreme Court case to shape Ferguson investigation

Eileen Sullivan · August 22, 2014 8:25 am

National Security

Slaying of American reopens debate on ransoms

LARA JAKESELLEN KNICKMEYER · August 22, 2014 7:48 am

Former Washington photo editor Toby Massey, right, and Florida photo editor Phil Sandlin, left, edit photos at Kennedy Space Center during an early Space Shuttle launch as photograher Steve Pyle, rear, coordninates transmissions with New York. Massey, a photographer and photo editor who directed coverage of presidents and political conventions as well as natural disasters, the space program and sporting events during a 38-year career with The Associated Press, died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. He was 80. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)

Former AP photo editor Toby Massey dies

Douglass Daniel · August 22, 2014 3:38 am

National Security

Foley case lays bare debate over paying ransom

LARA JAKESELLEN KNICKMEYER · August 22, 2014 3:32 am

FILE - This August 2014 file photo provided by Eugene R. Fidell shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl preparing to be interviewed by Army investigators. The attorney for Bergdahl, who was held as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years before his release, says the soldier wants to go to college once the investigation of how he was captured by the Taliban is finished. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

National Security

GAO: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl swap

Donna Cassata · August 21, 2014 11:43 pm

FILE - This July 3, 2014 file photo shows Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaking at the Pentagon. Hagel said Thursday that US airstrikes have helped Iraqi and Kurdish forces regain their footing in Iraq, but he expects Islamic State militants will regroup and stage a new offensive. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Pentagon: Islamic State militants will regroup

Robert Burns · August 21, 2014 9:14 pm

Colorado’s Mark Udall gets ad boost in Senate race

Philip Elliott · August 21, 2014 9:05 pm

US ‘concerned’ by arrest of American in Israel

US ‘concerned’ by arrest of American in Israel

MATTHEW LEEYOUSUR ALHLOU · August 21, 2014 8:35 pm

Study: Combining vaccines boosts polio immunity

Lauran Neergaard · August 21, 2014 7:12 pm

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014, about he would be open to sending U.S. combat forces to Iraq to fight the deadly Islamic State after its attacks on a Christian minority and the beheading of an American journalist. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Perry presses for greater US involvement in Iraq

Donna Cassata · August 21, 2014 6:39 pm