Melissa Quinn

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House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., likened the surgeries he faced after he was shot at a Republicans baseball practice to "rebuilding Humpty Dumpty." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Steve Scalise: Surgeries after shooting was like the ‘rebuilding of Humpty Dumpty’

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 1:01 pm

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Trump has approved a request to waive the Jones Act for Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

White House waives Jones Act shipping rules to help Puerto Rico

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 12:22 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., discuss the Republican tax plan on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump accuses Democrats of opposing tax cuts

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 12:16 pm

President Trump said he still has confidence in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell despite the most recent failure of Republicans' attempts to overhaul Obamacare. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump still has confidence in Mitch McConnell after failed healthcare bill

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 11:56 am

President Trump said that NFL owners won't prohibit their players from kneeling during national anthem because they are "afraid of" them. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Trump: NFL team owners are ‘afraid of their players’

Melissa Quinn · September 28, 2017 11:31 am

Trumpâs approval rating remains stuck in the mid-thirties, with 36 percent of American voters approving of the job the president is doing. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Majority of Americans think Trump is unfit to serve as president

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2017 8:16 pm

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, said Wednesday he believes there are "equally effective" ways for NFL players to protest police brutality and racial injustice that don't involve kneeling for the national anthem.(AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards: ‘There are other ways’ to protest instead of kneeling for national anthem

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2017 6:17 pm

Paul Horner, a famous writer of fake news, was found dead in his bed at his house outside of Phoenix on Sept. 18, Mark Casey, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, told the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Fake news writer who duped Trump campaign officials during election found dead

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2017 6:12 pm

"The NFL is in a very bad box." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: NFL’s business will ‘go to hell’ if league doesn’t change

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2017 5:58 pm

Jared Kushner is registered to vote as a woman in the state of New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Jared Kushner registered to vote in New York as a woman

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2017 4:23 pm

Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., sent letters to 24 federal agencies and White House chief of staff John Kelly asking for information about the use of government-owned and private planes for both official and personal trips. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

House Oversight Committee probing Trump administration officials’ use of private, government-owned jets

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2017 2:47 pm

The West Point graduate posted two photos on Twitter this week expressing pro-communist views. In one photo, tweeted Monday, Rapone opened the buttons of his uniform to show a Che Guevara T-shirt underneath. (Image courtesy screenshot)

National Security

West Point condemns graduate who wore Che Guevara shirt under uniform

Melissa Quinn · September 27, 2017 2:10 pm