Pete Kasperowicz

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Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, is in Iraq with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford. (Photo: Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Dominique A. Pineiro)

National Security

Kushner visits Iraq in first overseas trip under Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · April 3, 2017 11:26 am

Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, right, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, depart after a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on March 23. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Conservatives gun for a debt ceiling win under Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

Democratic bill would ban immigration arrests at hospitals, schools

Pete Kasperowicz · March 31, 2017 4:22 pm

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said "I think that Donald Trump is a conservative based on the Cabinet members he's picked, the Supreme Court nominee that he nominated, the budget he put forth." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Mark Meadows: ‘Donald Trump is a conservative’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 31, 2017 12:01 pm

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Friday that the Russian government didn't try to influence the U.S. election last year. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

Putin’s spokesman: ‘Read Mr. Putin’s lips’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 31, 2017 11:31 am

A bill from Rep. David Loebsack,D-Iowa, would cut lawmaker pay by 10 percent and end the automatic pay hikes for members of Congress. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House Democrats don’t want their paychecks anymore

Pete Kasperowicz · March 30, 2017 12:36 pm

President Trump said Thursday he expects his meeting next week with President Xi Jinping of China will be "a very difficult one." (AP Photo/Files)

Trump to host China’s Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago

Pete Kasperowicz · March 30, 2017 11:01 am

"The bottom line is, Congress has lost control of the budget." (iStock)

Clinton, Bush GAO director: Federal government is ‘too big’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 29, 2017 8:27 pm

"The president wanted to be here last weekend, he wants to be here this weekend," Spicer said. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Sean Spicer: Complaints over Trump travel aren’t keeping him in DC

Pete Kasperowicz · March 29, 2017 4:44 pm

House Democrats say it should be illegal for people to carry handguns into airports, even though they admit that law could leave people unprotected from "attacks by armed gunmen" that are happening increasingly in airports. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang, File)

National Security

Democrats push to ban guns at airports, leave people vulnerable to ‘attacks by armed gunmen’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 29, 2017 12:08 pm

Watch: Sean Spicer tells April Ryan to stop shaking her head while he answers

Pete Kasperowicz · March 28, 2017 6:14 pm

Eric Trump, son of President Trump, jumped to Fox News' Sean Hannity rescue, by saying Hannity is the world's foremost patriot. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Eric Trump: ‘No better patriot in the world than Sean Hannity’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 28, 2017 11:29 am