Caitlin Yilek

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Mourners pay their respects following a funeral service for the late Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, in the Mississippi State Capitol rotunda in Jackson, Miss., Monday, June 3, 2019. Cochran was 81 when he died Thursday in a veterans' nursing home in Oxford, Mississippi. He was the 10th longest serving senator.

GOP aides demoted over taxpayer-funded government jet flight to senator’s funeral

Caitlin Yilek · June 19, 2019 1:45 pm

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar Green Beret, who died from non-combat related injuries in Mali in June 2017.

Navy SEAL convicted in death of Green Beret under investigation for contact with victim’s widow at party

Caitlin Yilek · June 19, 2019 1:30 pm

President Donald Trump claps at his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 in Washington.

Would lawmakers accept opposition research from foreign sources? We asked all of them

Anthony Leonardi, Caitlin Yilek, Noah Garfinkel, Regina Barton · June 19, 2019 12:00 am

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, speaks at the Poor People's Moral Action Congress presidential forum in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2019.

Biden: ‘I don’t believe the polls right now, guys’

Caitlin Yilek · June 18, 2019 7:14 pm

John A. Catsimatidis attends the 18th Annual ASPCA Bergh Ball at the Plaza Hotel on Thursday, April 9, 2015, in New York.

Billionaire Trump supporter who attended Biden fundraiser says he rejected 2020 candidate’s request for help

Caitlin Yilek · June 18, 2019 6:58 pm

In this Thursday, June 13, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington.

Trump planning to live-tweet Democratic debates

Caitlin Yilek · June 18, 2019 2:10 pm

FILE - In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death, Saturday, May 16, 2015, over a 2011 mass prison break..

Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi collapses in court and dies

Caitlin Yilek · June 17, 2019 5:29 pm

Italian Francesco Galdeli arrested by Thai police officers.

Italian posing as George Clooney arrested in Thailand over clothing scam

Caitlin Yilek · June 17, 2019 5:06 pm

Pope Francis arrives in a coliseum in Puerto Maldonado, the city considered a gateway to the Amazon in the Madre de Dios province, Peru, to meet with several thousand indigenous people in the first full day of the pontiff's visit to Peru, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.

Vatican says Catholic Church should consider ordaining married men in Amazon

Caitlin Yilek · June 17, 2019 3:13 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg arrives for a grassroots event on Friday, June 14, 2019, in Alexandria, Va.

Buttigieg raises $7 million in one month

Caitlin Yilek · June 17, 2019 12:49 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks on foreign policy and national security during a speech at the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, June 11, 2019.

Buttigieg: It’s ‘almost certain’ we’ve had a gay president

Caitlin Yilek · June 17, 2019 12:12 pm

Protesters hold signs in a crosswalk in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019.

Majority of Texas independents say they wouldn’t vote for Trump

Caitlin Yilek · June 17, 2019 11:39 am