CAMPAIGN SEEKS TO PUSH SEATTLE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP FILE — In this Aug. 1, 2013 file photo, Seattle police officers take Caroline Durocher, center, into custody after Durocher sat in a downtown intersection during…
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CONGRESS SPLIT ON CUTTING OFF AID TO EGYPT
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER In this photo taken March 10, 2011, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress, becomes emotional as he testifies before the House Homeland Security…
WHITE HO– USE TRAVEL DIRECTOR KEEPS ENTOURAGE MOVING
By NEDRA PICKLER In this Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 photo White House travel office director Ashley Tate-Gilmore stands near a row of rocking chairs at the entrance to the Vineyard…
NEW NSA REVELATIONS STIR CONGRESSIONAL CONCERN
By KIMBERLY DOZIER FILE – This June 6, 213 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The NSA has broken privacy…
DC FIRE DEPT. STRAINS TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY CARE
FILE – In this Dec. 16, 2010, file photo, Kenneth Ellerbe Washington then-Washington Mayor-Elect Vince Gray’s nominee for Chief of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, center, talks as fellow nominees,…
GOP MODERATES PUSH BACK ON TEA PARTY SPENDING CUTS
By ANDREW TAYLOR FILE – In this Aug. 1, 2013, file photo House Speaker, Republican John Boehner of Ohio, takes questions from reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference as…
CHILLY RECEPTION FOR KERRY IN BRAZIL, COLOMBIA?
By DEB RIECHMANN In this photo taken Aug. 9, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry listens to translation as he meets with Russian Foreign and Defense ministers at the State…
OBAMA: REFORM SPY PROGRAM, PA– USE RUSSIA ‘RESET’
By JULIE PACE President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013. The president…