A summary of all-things Washington for Monday, August 15, 2011.
Teenagers arrested Friday night for breaking new weekend curfew.
Fernandez praised the primary election as "historic" and a "qualitative leap" for Argentina.
Hacking group releases personal information of more than 2,000 transit riders.
As the biggest holder of U.S. debt, China has bitterly criticized the Americans? profligate ways as well as the recent debt-ceiling fiasco in Washington.
A series of bomb blasts rocked Iraq on Monday, killing at least 170 people and wounding 67. The attacks, which disrupted the otherwise quiet holy month of Ramadan, took place in less than two weeks after the Iraqi government said it would negotiate with the U.S. for keeping some of its troops after the end of the year.
Syrians say Sunni areas are being shelled from land and sea.
Libyan regime denies talking to insurgents about dictator's departure.
Wisconsin's series of recall elections concludes Tuesday when voters go to the polls in two state Senate districts where Democrats are being forced to defend their seats.
Two of the leading Republican presidential candidates avoided confrontation Sunday as they attended the same Iowa fundraiser to court social and religious conservatives.
President Barack Obama has no reprieve from his summer blues. His approval ratings have taken a hit as Americans are deeply concerned about their future amid sluggish economic growth and unemployment rate that remains above 9 percent.
A fifth person has died from the collapse of an outdoor concert stage in heavy wind just before a weekend show at the Indiana State Fair, which was shut down on Sunday, authorities said.
Pakistan gave China access to the previously unknown U.S. "stealth" helicopter that crashed during the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May despite explicit requests from the CIA not to, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
The last time Verizon workers went on strike was in August 2000, when members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) held a work stoppage for eighteen days.
Millions of people in Britain lived lives of appalling, often unspeakable poverty and degradation.
Did last week?s wild stock market swings make you concerned that your 401K will soon turn into a ?201K? ? Then it sounds like it?s a good time to get an assessment of the U.S. economy from two respected economists, Paul Krugman and Irwin Kellner.
This week investors should focus on the performance of European sovereign debt markets.
Tim Pawlenty has dropped his 2012 GOP presidential nomination bid. Why the move spells trouble for Mitt Romney.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has ended his presidential campaign. After a third-place finish Saturday in the Iowa Straw Poll Pawlenty announced Sunday he's out of the GOP presidential nomination race.
The corporation seeks to dramatically reduce health care benefits for its wire line employees ? the workers are demanding they be retained.
China should rest easy that its investments in the dollar remain safe, the newly arrived U.S. ambassador in Beijing, Gary Locke, said on Sunday, adding that the world's two biggest economies could find common ground despite economic and political strains.
Pakistan's restive Balochistan province was rocked by a bomb blast, and the persisting violence which left five people dead and injured dozens others.
Reportedly, incidents of wire-cutting by aggrieved strikers have interfered with the phone services of thousands of customers between Virginia and Massachusetts.
Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll on Saturday in the first big test of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign, as Texas Governor Rick Perry launched a White House bid that could reshape the race.
Authorities in northeastern China on Sunday ordered a petrochemical plant to be shut down immediately after thousands of people demonstrated, demanding the relocation of the factory at the center of a toxic spill scare, state media said.
Authorities are investigating if Britain's News Corp had a broader pattern of misconduct in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Saturday.
It was Michele Bachmann's big moment in the political spotlight and Rick Perry stomped all over it.
A prominent British historian has sparked outrage by blaming the ongoing riots in England on black Afro-Caribbean culture.
The body of a New York Police Department Officer, who went missing on Friday afternoon, was recovered from Long Island Sound early Saturday afternoon.
Berlin's mayor said on Saturday he was appalled that some Germans were nostalgic for the Berlin Wall and supported a newly fashionable leftist view that there were legitimate reasons for building it in 1961.