Nicole Duran

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is calling on Democrats to make Feb. 18 a day of action in support of the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pelosi calls for day of action to save Obamacare

Nicole Duran · February 3, 2017 9:29 pm

Khizr Khan, the father of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, left, introduces Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, during a rally at The Armory at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, N.H., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Khizr Khan: From Gold Star dad to political animal?

Nicole Duran · February 3, 2017 5:01 am

House Democrats ramped up their criticism of President Trump's executive order curtailing travel to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries, holding an unofficial hearing in the Capitol Thursday to bring attention to the order's short-comings. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

National Security

Democrats escalate pressure against Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’

Nicole Duran · February 2, 2017 11:14 pm

Rule expanded who must automatically be entered into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

House votes to undo Obama-era gun control rule

Nicole Duran · February 2, 2017 10:36 pm

"I think this is all about Bannon more than it is about Trump," says Rep. Crowley of the immigration ban. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Top House Democrat quips that ‘President Bannon’ is running the show

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2017 11:52 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said he and President Trump have talked more in one month than he and former President Barack Obama did throughout the entire Obama presidency. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Ryan: I’ve spoken more to Trump in 1 month than I did to Obama in 8 years

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2017 11:21 pm

Khizr Khan, the father of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan, says Jeff Sessions supports policies that are "not the American way." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Khizr Khan reemerges to lead boycott of ‘everything’ Trump

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2017 10:14 pm

Leaders of the three major ethnic caucuses on Capitol Hill wrote President Trump demanding he remove chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

House minority leaders call Bannon a ‘white supremacist;’ want him off NSC

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2017 7:44 pm

Trump's domestic policy agenda raised some red flags for skeptical conservatives. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP grapples with potential executive overreach — by a Republican

Nicole Duran · February 1, 2017 5:01 am

Democrats and some Republicans still worry about how the Trump administration plans to carry out President Trump's controversial executive order regarding immigration, even after Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly came to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers in a classified setting Tuesday evening. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Democrats happy with Kelly, still mad about immigration order

Al Weaver, Nicole Duran · February 1, 2017 12:19 am

Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell among those meeting with Secretary Kelly. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Congressional leaders to meet with DHS secretary about immigration order

Nicole Duran · January 30, 2017 11:48 pm

Rep. Himes called the executive order on immigration "profoundly dangerous to the security of this country." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Democrats blast Trump’s immigration order on the House floor

Nicole Duran · January 30, 2017 6:30 pm