SUPREME COURT TERM BEGINS WITH CONTENTIOUS TOPICS
By MARK SHERMAN FILE – In this June 27, 2012, file photo law enforcement officers set up a perimeter controls in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on the eve…
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DESPITE GUN DEBATE, ATF STILL BOXED IN BY POLITICS
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL 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,…
SISTERS QUESTION FATAL SHOOTING IN DC POLICE CHASE
By LARRY NEUMEISTER 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…
HO– USE HARD-LINERS STAND UNITED IN BUDGET SHOWDOWN
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, then-Republican House candidate, now, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks in Claremore, Okla. Hard-line House conservatives are demanding concessions…
IN ASIA, OBAMA’S NO-SHOW IS A BOOST FOR CHINA’S XI
By GILLIAN WONG Chinese President Xi Jinping, foreground right, bows as he inspects a guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at Parliament Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct.…
MOTHER: WOMAN KILLED IN DC CHASE WAS DEPRESSED
By ERIC TUCKER A damaged Capitol Hill police care is surrounded by crime scene tape after a car chase and shooting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.…
POLICE SHOOT DRIVER OUTSIDE CAPITOL AFTER CHASE
By BRADLEY KLAPPER and LAURIE KELLMAN This view from the Russell Senate Office Building shows police converging on the scene of a shooting on Constitution Avenue on Capitol Hill near…
COUNTDOWN: GOP UNITY FRAYS AS SHUTDOWN GROWS NEAR
By DAVID ESPO Speaker of the House John Boehner, R- Ohio, pauses during a news conference after a House Republican Conference meeting about the ongoing budget fight on Capitol Hill…