Nicole Duran

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An armed U.S. Marshal stands guard outside the Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, N.Y., Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. New York City resident Agron Hasbajrami, in an indictment unsealed in Brooklyn, has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization by plotting to travel to Pakistan to join a radical fighting group. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National Security

U.S. courts hold three foreigners accountable for terrorist ties

Nicole Duran · August 13, 2015 10:25 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the IAEA. (AP Photo)

Graham threatens to block IAEA funding over Iran side deal

Nicole Duran · August 13, 2015 2:07 pm

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, right, speaks as East Haven Police Chief Brent Larrabee, left, listens, during a community policing tour, Tuesday, July 21, 2015, in East Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Lynch optimistic on police reforms despite ongoing violence

Nicole Duran · August 13, 2015 4:01 am

The Society of Professional Journalists wrote President Obama, asking him to help make the workings of the federal government more accessible to journalists and watchdogs. (AP Photo)Â

Reporters demand a more open Obama administration

Nicole Duran · August 12, 2015 9:26 pm

"If government employees simply treated taxpayer money as if it were their own, we'd save hundreds of millions in contracting costs," Ron Johnson said. (AP Photo)Â

Report exposes how federal contracting agencies ‘accept the sticker price’

Nicole Duran · August 12, 2015 5:22 pm

Both Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Ben Cardin of Maryland are undecided on the Iran deal. (Getty Images photos)

Sens. McCaskill, Cardin undecided on Iran deal

Nicole Duran · August 10, 2015 4:01 am

If Congress backs away from the plan, "Does the rest of the world take seriously the U.S. ability to craft international agendas, to reach international agreements, to deliver on them in ways that garner the respect and adherence from other countries?", Obama asked on CNN on Sunday. (Getty Images file)

National Security

Obama: U.S. credibility on the line with nuclear deal

Nicole Duran · August 9, 2015 10:25 pm

"What does it take for Americans to finally wake up to the fact that we are violating the constitutional rights of human beings?Ã¢â¬ï¿½ he asked. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Huckabee could deploy National Guard to stop abortions

Nicole Duran · August 9, 2015 7:29 pm

"The point is, women understood that comment," Fiorina said of Trump. "And yes, it [was] completely inappropriate and offensive ... period." (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fiorina: Trump is a sexist

Nicole Duran · August 9, 2015 7:01 pm

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said that pregnancies resulting from rape, although "horrifying," compose "less than one percent of the cases in the world." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Rubio: I’ll support any law that ‘reduces the number of abortions’

Nicole Duran · August 9, 2015 6:11 pm

Trump pointed out tointing out that President Ronald Regan started out as a registered Democrat. (Getty Images file)

Trump uses his wealth to explain everything

Nicole Duran · August 9, 2015 5:04 pm

Trump denied that his comments about Megyn Kelly were anything more than a reference to her being angry. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump vigorously defends Kelly ‘blood’ comments

Nicole Duran · August 9, 2015 3:01 pm