Nicole Duran

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"We can't keep on funding transportation by the seat of our pants, three months at a time," Obama said. (AP)

Obama scolds Congress for leaving town

Nicole Duran · July 31, 2015 9:14 pm

"I haven't asked him that question point blank, but I do know that he is aware of the news that those videos have generated," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. (AP Photo)Â

Obama probably hasn’t watched Planned Parenthood videos

Nicole Duran · July 31, 2015 8:54 pm

Members of the media raise their hands during Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz's briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Moniz: The Iran side deal is ‘confidential,’ not ‘secret’

Nicole Duran · July 31, 2015 7:35 pm

President Barack Obama, left, talks with Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" during a taping on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jon Stewart White House visits almost never happened

Nicole Duran · July 31, 2015 3:51 pm

President Obama walks across the tarmac with Rep. Mike Michaud, D-Maine. (AP Photo/Joel Page)

Former congressman nominated to Labor Department post

Nicole Duran · July 30, 2015 10:17 pm

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. arrives to pose for photographers in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House mocks Tom Cotton for a wasted trip to Austria

Nicole Duran · July 30, 2015 9:30 pm

In this undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Cecil the lion rests in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. (Andy Loveridge/Wildlife Conservation Research Unit via AP)

Energy and Environment

Feds to investigate Cecil the lion’s death

Nicole Duran · July 30, 2015 8:56 pm

Anti-abortion activists hold a rally opposing federal funding for Planned Parenthood in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery/Getty Images)

Obama would veto bill to defund Planned Parenthood

Nicole Duran · July 30, 2015 6:57 pm

Obama wants to build world’s best supercomputer

Nicole Duran · July 30, 2015 2:45 pm

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House scolds Congress for having the ‘gall’ to leave for August break

Nicole Duran · July 29, 2015 8:20 pm

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz ridiculed theÂ argument from conservatives in Congress that President Obama failed to live up to a law passed earlier this year that forces him to provide all documents to Congress on the Iran deal.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House: Kerry will get to bottom of Clinton email controversy

Nicole Duran · July 29, 2015 7:31 pm

The White House's online petition site called "We the People" is displayed on a computer screen in Beijing Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

White House promises 60-day turnaround on citizen petitions

Nicole Duran · July 29, 2015 5:22 pm