Politics
Latest Stories
APTOPIX Mideast Egypt_Lea.jpg
Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square as demonstrators gather in Cairo on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, to protest Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's seizure of nearly unrestricted powers. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Congress Democrats_Reps.jpg
This May 5, 2011, photo shows Rep. Walter Jones, North Carolina Republican, speaking on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) ** FILE **
20121204-211927-pic-479456485.jpg
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey has resigned as chairman of the tea party group FreedomWorks in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments. The former Texas lawmaker also has left his position at its sister organization, FreedomWorks Foundation. (Associated Press)
20121204-211819-pic-135368884.jpg
Mary M. Cheh, Ward 3 Democrat, said the prevalence of speed cameras is more significant than the fine. “The thing that assures the highest compliance with traffic laws is the certainty that violators will be caught,” she said Tuesday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
20121204-211819-pic-54528174.jpg
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray says the city should 'double down' on its gun laws in the wake of the school shooting in Newton, Conn. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
20121204-211312-pic-990013401.jpg
Conservative lawmakers and interest groups have said House Speaker John A. Boehner's offer of $800 billion in tax increases abandoned core Republican principles and earned no credit from a White House that has insisted on even bigger tax hikes. (Associated Press)
20121204-203555-pic-840889786.jpg
A protest by tens of thousands of Egyptians outside the presidential palace in Cairo turned violent as tensions grew over President Mohammed Morsi’s power grab. (Associated Press)
Obama Fiscal Cliff_Star(1).jpg
President Obama, flanked by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, National Governors Association (NGA) Chairman, and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, NGA Vice Chair, meets Dec. 4, 2012, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington with the NGA executive committee regarding the fiscal cliff. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is at right. (Associated Press)
Mideast Syria__Live.jpg
A Free Syria Army fighter receives treatment Dec. 3, 2012, at a makeshift clinic during clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)
20121204-163205-pic-4569457.jpg
Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq has absorbed more than 30,000 Syrian Kurds since April, housing many of them in U.N. Refugee Agency tents. (Giulio Petrocco/ Special to The Washington Times)
