Pete Kasperowicz

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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., speaks to media after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Reid predicts more support for Iran deal

Pete Kasperowicz · August 24, 2015 10:07 pm

State spokesman John Kirby said Monday the government believes the IAEA will give it all the "access and information" it needs. (Screengrab courtesy of State Department Youtube video)

State Dept. shifts its story on details of Iran deal

Pete Kasperowicz · August 24, 2015 7:26 pm

"Deep fat fried butter," King says as he picks up a wooden stick that had a wad of fried butter at the end of it. (Steve King Twitter)

Watch: Lawmaker braves a stick of fried butter

Pete Kasperowicz · August 21, 2015 6:01 pm

U.S. military guards walk a detainee through Camp Delta in the Guantanamo Bay detention center on March 29, 2010 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Justice Dept. ignores law on foreign prisoner transfers

Pete Kasperowicz · August 21, 2015 4:38 pm

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, speaks with the International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general, Yukiya Amano, at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 2, 2015. The head of the U.N. atomic agency, Amano, visited Tehran to discuss remaining outstanding issues over Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

National Security

State Dept. won’t press IAEA to release Iran details

Pete Kasperowicz · August 20, 2015 9:14 pm

A man works at a computer in TechHub, an office space for technology start-up entrepreneurs, near the Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch which has been dubbed 'Silicon Roundabout' due to the number of technology companies operating from the area on March 15, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Watchdog: VA employees waste time goofing off on social media

Pete Kasperowicz · August 20, 2015 6:57 pm

One report pressed State spokesman John Kirby on how Secretary of State John Kerry could have said the IAEA's inspection regime for Iran could be seen as "routine" if it lets Iran choose who does the inspecting.Â (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

State ‘very comfortable’ with deal letting Iran inspect its own site

Pete Kasperowicz · August 19, 2015 7:11 pm

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald, left, and Jame Tuchschmidt, M.D., acting principal deputy under secretary for health, Veteran Affairs Administration, wait to testify about pending Veteran Affairs healthcare budget shortfall and system shutdown at a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Congress mulls new subpoena to demand secret Philly VA report

Pete Kasperowicz · August 19, 2015 5:40 pm

Obama administration emails found in Ashley Madison data dump

Pete Kasperowicz · August 19, 2015 4:36 pm

A report said if the Veterans Affairs OIG had not stepped in, "it is likely that. ... staff would have inappropriately destroyed the nine claims-related documents we found."Â (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

VA caught sending veterans’ mail to the shredder

Pete Kasperowicz · August 18, 2015 8:48 pm

RonÂ Dermer appealed to lawmakers as the Obama administration works to convince them to support the Iran deal. (AP Photo)

National Security

Israel: Iran deal a ‘tornado coming at us’

Pete Kasperowicz · August 17, 2015 4:50 pm

"How many Americans must die at the hands of unlawful criminal immigrants before the Obama administration takes a serious look at the failure of its own policies?" askedÂ Representative Bob Goodlatte. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

‘How many Americans must die?’ Lawmaker blames Obama for latest illegal immigrant murder

Pete Kasperowicz · August 14, 2015 8:36 pm