WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of Republican senators on Thursday unveiled legislation that requires the Obama administration to impose stricter sanctions on every sector of Iran's economy that supports the country's ballistic missile program.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., is a reflection of longstanding exasperation among GOP lawmakers who've complained that President Barack Obama has failed to properly punish Tehran for repeatedly defying a U.N. ballistic missile test ban.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commuters in the nation's capital returned to their regular routines Thursday morning after an unprecedented daylong shutdown of the Washington subway system that revealed more than two dozen places in need of urgent repair.
The Metro system reopened at 5 a.m. Thursday, and the morning rush hour was largely uneventful, with trains on all lines running on time and packed as usual with federal workers and other commuters from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, some of whom stayed home on Wednesday because they had few attractive options for getting to work.
