Laura Barrón-López

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Trump claimed that the earth is simultaneously heating and cooling and therefore climate change is not happening. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Trump: Global warming isn’t happening because there’s ‘a cooling, and then there’s a heating’

Laura Barrón-López · January 28, 2018 8:22 pm

Steve Wynn is accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct going back decades. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Susan Collins: GOP colleagues should give back Steve Wynn donations

Laura Barrón-López · January 28, 2018 6:40 pm

Sanders met with his political advisers recently and a potential run for the White House came up, but Sanders said, "there is no big news" to report. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Bernie Sanders keeps 2020 speculation alive

Laura Barrón-López · January 28, 2018 4:54 pm

"People from New York have a different way of talking and speaking," Sen. Joe Manchin said. "I take that literally, he blew off about some things." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Joe Manchin waves off report Trump wanted to fire Robert Mueller: New Yorkers ‘have a different way of talking’

Laura Barrón-López · January 28, 2018 3:53 pm

"The president had a bad idea, he talked to his counsel who explained to president why it was a bad idea," Sen. Susan Collins said of reports that White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to quit if Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Susan Collins: It would be a ‘terrible mistake’ for Trump to fire Rod Rosenstein

Laura Barrón-López · January 28, 2018 3:09 pm

Conor Lamb is a 33-year-old Marine veteran and former assistant U.S. attorney running for the open seat.
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Democrats see Pennsylvania special election as ‘temperature check on Trump’

Laura Barrón-López · January 25, 2018 5:01 am

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., heads to the chamber with fellow Democrats for a procedural vote aimed at reopening the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘The Democrats caved’: Liberals pan Senate deal to end government shutdown

Laura Barrón-López · January 22, 2018 8:20 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Democrats will support what would be a fifth short-term funding measure in the last year, if an agreement can be reached on two-year domestic and defense spending caps, relief for so-called "Dreamers," and border security. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Nancy Pelosi: Democrats ready to back continuing resolution if agreements reached on DACA, spending caps

Laura Barrón-López · January 20, 2018 5:23 pm

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., also plan to vote against the measure. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, may oppose it as well. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Democrats claim votes to block GOP spending bill as shutdown looms

Laura Barrón-López · January 18, 2018 9:36 pm

"Sole impediment to a DACA fix is the speaker's unwillingness to schedule Dream Act or any other solution for a floor vote," Sanchez said in an interview with Latino reporters Thursday. "I think once we did pass something the political pressure would make it very likely that the president would sign something." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Linda Sanchez: Paul Ryan should stop playing ‘Catholic card’ and bring up DACA vote

Laura Barrón-López · January 18, 2018 6:38 pm

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, for a meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hispanic Caucus members leave meeting with John Kelly with few answers on DACA fix

Laura Barrón-López · January 17, 2018 6:25 pm

"I think the president articulates racist language and pursues racist policies based upon race," Rep. Steny Hoyer said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Steny Hoyer: Trump meets the ‘definition of a racist’

Laura Barrón-López · January 16, 2018 8:26 pm