Nicole Duran

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Workers at the Orange County GOP office set up a makeshift operation with folding tables on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016 in Hillsborough, N.C. Authorities are investigating the campaign office after it was was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan, damaging the interior. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew)

White House condemns vandalism against GOP office

Nicole Duran · October 17, 2016 6:42 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House won’t confirm or deny Assange disruption

Nicole Duran · October 17, 2016 6:06 pm

President Barack Obama speaks to students, teachers and invited guests at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, to highlight the progress his administration has made over the last eight years to improve education across the country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama boasts recovery in high school graduation rates

Nicole Duran · October 17, 2016 4:20 pm

President Obama told Congress on Friday that he ordered airstrikes against radar installations in Yemen on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

National Security

Obama tells lawmakers he ordered airstrikes in Yemen

Nicole Duran · October 14, 2016 9:20 pm

President Obama will head to Florida next week to make up for the trip to the Sunshine State he canceled because of Hurricane Matthew. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama reschedules Miami trip canceled by Hurricane Matthew

Nicole Duran · October 14, 2016 7:06 pm

Schultz was mum on whether Obama is close to a decision regarding next steps for the Syrian civil war. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Iraq focus of Obama’s Friday anti-Islamic State meeting

Nicole Duran · October 14, 2016 7:02 pm

The Obama administration in July refused the House Select Benghazi Committee's subpoena for emails. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House: Other administrations kept emails confidential too

Nicole Duran · October 14, 2016 6:37 pm

Obama mocks Trump’s fight against the ‘global elite’

Obama mocks Trump’s fight against the ‘global elite’

Nicole Duran · October 14, 2016 3:54 pm

President Obama said he was going to let his wife Michelle's reaction to sexual assault allegations levied at Donald Trump suffice during the Ohio Democratic Party's annual dinner Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama rips into Trump, GOP ‘swamp of crazy’

Nicole Duran · October 14, 2016 1:39 am

White House sidesteps Trump sexual assault claims

White House sidesteps Trump sexual assault claims

Nicole Duran · October 13, 2016 8:09 pm

Amnesty International USA is calling on President Obama to focus on three human-rights issues in his final days in office. (AP Photo)

Amnesty International demands human-rights progress in Obama’s last days

Nicole Duran · October 13, 2016 8:08 pm

President Obama issued an executive order outlining how the federal government will prepare for and respond to "space-weather events," such as solar flares that can wreak global havoc. (AP Photo/NASA)

Energy and Environment

Obama orders government to prepare for ‘space-weather events’

Nicole Duran · October 13, 2016 3:27 pm