Pete Kasperowicz

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General Electric offered to sell its major appliances division to Electrolux for $3.3 billion, but the Justice Department asked a court to stop the transaction over the summer. (AP Photo)

Feds thwart foreign purchase of GE’s appliance division

Pete Kasperowicz · December 7, 2015 6:47 pm

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expected to announce a new federal probe into the police shooting in Chicago last year that left a black teenager dead. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Justice Dept. to probe Chicago cops in killing of black teen

Pete Kasperowicz · December 7, 2015 12:31 pm

Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairs the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, a big job in light of the seemingly endless stream of scandals pouring out of VA headquarters. (CQ Roll Call via AP)

Bill would bar mega payouts for VA workers

Pete Kasperowicz · December 7, 2015 5:01 am

National Security

‘Defend and distract’: Paul Ryan blasts Obama’s speech

Pete Kasperowicz · December 7, 2015 2:15 am

President Barack Obama is still refusing to call the California shooting an act of terrorism, even after the FBI said it is now investigating the shooting as a terrorist event. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama still won’t say Calif. shooting was terrorism

Pete Kasperowicz · December 5, 2015 1:58 pm

Obama's executive action from a year ago was aimed at sparing millions of illegal immigrants from deportation and allowing them to work. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dems: Let illegals work, or they’ll break even more laws

Pete Kasperowicz · December 5, 2015 5:01 am

FBI treating San Bernardino shooting as terrorist attack

Pete Kasperowicz · December 4, 2015 7:29 pm

A dozen House Dems have re-introduced a resolution warning that the teaching of creationism in public schools "compromises the scientific and academic integrity of the United States education systems." (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Energy and Environment

Dems: Creationism, global warming doubters a threat to science

Pete Kasperowicz · December 4, 2015 7:03 pm

The Dar Al-Hijrah center received a bomb threat and Molotov cocktails were thrown in the parking lot. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Dems to worship at mosque with ties to terrorists

Pete Kasperowicz · December 4, 2015 4:11 pm

Osuna indicated that immigration courts are prioritizing the most dangerous immigrants. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pressure: Immigration court caseload nearly triples in four years

Pete Kasperowicz · December 3, 2015 10:02 pm

White House threatens shutdown to stop GOP policies

Pete Kasperowicz · December 3, 2015 8:53 pm

Republicans allowed the charter of the Export-Import Bank to expire over the summer, and since then, it has only been able to service existing loans and loan guarantees. (Meghana Kurup/Washington Examiner)

House votes to revive Export-Import Bank

Pete Kasperowicz · December 3, 2015 7:55 pm