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In this file photo from 2012, A police car sits in front of the U.S. Capitol building. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

White House staffer threatens Capitol Police officer boyfriend with his own gun

Kelly Cohen · August 10, 2015 9:12 pm

Demonstrators, marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, face off with police during a protest along West Florrisant Street on August 9, 2015 in Ferguson, Mo. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Violence prompts St. Louis County to declare state of emergency

Kelly Cohen · August 10, 2015 7:47 pm

In this Monday August 3, 2015, file photo, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talk before a trilateral meeting in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Poll: More think Iran got a better deal than the U.S.

Kelly Cohen · August 10, 2015 5:26 pm

A homeless man sleeps on a Manhattan street on August 22, 2014 in New York City. According to the Department of Homeless Services, the number of homeless people in New York City has risen by more than 20,000 over the past five years. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Justice Dept.: Criminalization of homeless is unconstitutional

Kelly Cohen · August 7, 2015 3:35 pm

Â North Korea will set its clock back by 30 minutes to "Pyongyang time" on Aug. 15. (AP Photo)

National Security

North Korea creates own time zone

Kelly Cohen · August 7, 2015 1:40 pm

Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles will begin recalling state-issued license plates that feature the Confederate flag.Â (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Virginia DMV to recall Confederate flag license plates

Kelly Cohen · August 7, 2015 12:14 pm

Kathleen Kane allegedly leaked information about a 2009 grand jury investigation to the Philadelphia Daily News last year, done intentionally to embarrass a former state prosecutor. (AP Photo)Â

Pennsylvania AG charged with obstruction, perjury

Kelly Cohen · August 6, 2015 8:38 pm

Santorum is part of group of seven candidates who did not make the top 10 for Fox News' main debate stage. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Rick Santorum: Limiting GOP debates ‘a disservice to American people’

Kelly Cohen · August 6, 2015 1:40 pm

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a rally at Town Hall in Cleveland, Wednesday, before Thursday's first GOP presidential debate being held at the Quicken Loans Arena. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Heading into first GOP debate, Marco Rubio garners highest favorability

Kelly Cohen · August 6, 2015 1:02 pm

Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced legislation to make the federal background check system for gun buyers more effective. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Top GOP senator introduces NRA-backed gun legislation

Kelly Cohen · August 6, 2015 12:14 pm

Police work the scene of a reported shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. A suspect wielding a hatchet and a gun inside a Nashville-area movie theater died after exchanging gunshots with a police team that stormed the theater, police said Wednesday. (John Partipilo/The Tennessean via AP)

National Security

Suspect in Tennessee movie theater shooting dead

Kelly Cohen · August 5, 2015 8:04 pm

"We now have physical evidence that, as I announced on 24 March last year, flight MH370 tragically ended in the southern Indian Ocean," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed Wednesday. (AP Photo)Â

Malaysia confirms debris came from missing Flight 370

Kelly Cohen · August 5, 2015 7:21 pm