SENATE DEMOCRATS UNVEIL GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL
By ANDREW TAYLOR FILE – In this Jan. 1, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. leaves a Republican caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. A…
United States government
NAVY: 3 DEAD IN E. WASH. MILITARY PLANE CRASH
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS This photo provided by Stan Dammel shows a field near Harrington, Wash. where a E/A-6B Prowler military airplane from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island crashed Monday,…
OBAMA FRIEND OR FOE? MCCAIN CHARTS HIS COURSE
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this March 7, 2013 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican McCain is a walking contradiction,…
AFGHAN TROUBLES SPELL TOUGH START FOR HAGEL
By LOLITA C. BALDOR U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, meets with Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Ghulam Mujtaba Patang at the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) headquarters in Kabul, Sunday,…
OBAMA CRACKS WISE AT ANNUAL GRIDIRON DINNER
President Barack Obama walks with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, right, as they leave the Gridiron Dinner through a loading area at a hotel in Washington, Saturday, March 9, 2013.…
AP SOURCE: OBAMA POISED TO PICK PEREZ FOR LABOR
By JIM KUHNHENN and SAM HANANEL FILE – In this Thursday, May 10, 2012 file photo, United States Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, left, who heads up the civil rights…
AFGHAN BOMBERS STRIKE DURING US OFFICIAL’S VISIT
KIMBERLY DOZIER and RAHIM FAIEZ Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel prepares to step aboard a C-17 military aircraft en route to Kabul, Afghanistan, after greeting U.S. troops stationed at Manas Air…
FIRST LADY PUSHES FOOD INDUSTRY
By MARY CLARE JALONICK First lady Michelle Obama speaks at the Partnership for a Healthier America’s second Building a Healthier Future Summit on childhood obesity, Friday, March 8, 2013, at…