Barbara Boland

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Donald Trump is leading the poll with 25 percent of Republican primary voters favoring his candidacy, followed by Dr. Ben Carson with 12 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz, garnering 10 percent. (AP photos)

Poll: Trump, Carson, Cruz winners

Barbara Boland · August 16, 2015 3:25 pm

Trump buzzes Hillary, gives kids helicopter rides at Iowa State Fair

Trump buzzes Hillary, gives kids helicopter rides at Iowa State Fair

Barbara Boland · August 15, 2015 10:49 pm

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (L) speaks as he is interviewed by moderator David Gregory (R) during a taping of 'Meet the Press' at the NBC studios February 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press)

Hillary’s email scandal, 2016 the talk of Sunday shows

Barbara Boland · August 15, 2015 10:35 pm

This image taken from video provided by the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, shows an Italian Navy RIB rescuing migrants from a fishing boat, off the coast of Libya. At least 40 migrants died on Saturday in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, apparently killed by fuel fumes. (Marina Militare via AP)

40 migrants die off coast of Italy, Europe’s refugee crisis worsens

Barbara Boland · August 15, 2015 5:52 pm

President Obama will sign an imperfect bill funding the government in order to avoid shutting down the federal government. (AP Photo)

Obama: Task force will improve policing with ‘communities of color’

Barbara Boland · August 15, 2015 3:35 pm

In this photo illustration U.S. Treasury checks are piled at the U.S. Treasury printing facility July 18, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo Illustration by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)

Four Social Security myths

Barbara Boland · August 14, 2015 6:35 pm

Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, left, leads Interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis into a classroom to meet with students participating in a junior state's attorney program, Thursday, July 9, 2015, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Former prosecutor: Mosby has role in Baltimore’s ballooning murder rate

Barbara Boland · August 14, 2015 2:33 pm

Smoke rises while civilians gather at the scene of bomb attack in Jameela market in the Iraqi capital's crowded Sadr City neighborhood Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

National Security

Islamic State takes credit for Baghdad blast that killed 67

Barbara Boland · August 13, 2015 7:31 pm

CIA Director John Brennan addresses a meeting in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National Security

CIA director almost apologized for spying on Senate

Barbara Boland · August 13, 2015 6:59 pm

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now called the Islamic State group, marching in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant Website via AP, File)

National Security

ISIS claims massive US military personnel hack

Barbara Boland · August 13, 2015 3:05 pm

Planned Parenthood has an unlikely ally in the Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.Â (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Planned Parenthood finds an ally in Donald Trump

Barbara Boland · August 12, 2015 7:43 pm

"I want the private sector to be $3 trillion bigger. ThatÃ¢â¬â¢s how jobs are created," Sen. Rand Paul said. (AP Photo)

Rand Paul: ‘My tax plan gets rid of the payroll tax’

Barbara Boland · August 10, 2015 12:28 pm