Sean Lengell

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Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, left, and Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, far right, listen as President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the government's Ebola response, in the Oval Office of the White House Thursday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama considers Ebola point person, rules out travel ban

Sean Lengell · October 17, 2014 1:49 am

The court so far has cut early voting by a week in Ohio, let North Carolina end same-day voter registration and blocked Wisconsin from implementing a new voter identification law. Justices also are considering a challenge to Texas' voter ID law. (iStock)

Supreme Court stays busy ruling on state voting laws

Sean Lengell · October 16, 2014 9:11 pm

"I believe that it is ridiculous the amount of money we're spending on these elections; it's gone into the realm of the bizarre and absurd, and even for Washington, D.C., standards," Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Michele Bachmann: Campaign spending levels have gotten ‘bizarre and absurd’

Sean Lengell · October 15, 2014 10:21 pm

Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore has pushed back at Republican proposals for a travel ban to and from West Africa as a means to protect the U.S. from the Ebola virus, saying such a "reactionary" move would only make the epidemic worse. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congresswoman: Proposed travel ban with West Africa ‘impractical’

Sean Lengell · October 15, 2014 8:56 pm

GOP ramps up early voting push

GOP ramps up early voting push

Sean Lengell · October 15, 2014 10:00 am

Tabitha Simmons, left, and Katherine Sprague, right, are married by Rev. Elizabeth Stevens, from the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, outside the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow, Idaho, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Sprague and Simmons were the first couple to be issued a same-sex marriage license in Latah County. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Geoff Crimmins)

Gay marriage begins Wednesday in Idaho

Sean Lengell · October 13, 2014 9:12 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio called on Turkey to play a greater role in the U.S.-led effort against the Islamic State, saying it has a responsibility "as a member of NATO" to give safe haven to refugees fleeing battle-torn northern Syria. (AP/Molly Riley)

National Security

Rubio: Turkey must give Kurds safe haven

Sean Lengell · October 13, 2014 7:21 pm

Protesters sit silent for over four minutes at the Ferguson Police Department Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014, during a rally in remembrance of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

St. Louis protesters promise more civil disobedience

Sean Lengell · October 12, 2014 10:28 pm

U.S. pledges $212 million in Gaza aid

U.S. pledges $212 million in Gaza aid

Sean Lengell · October 12, 2014 10:05 pm

Susan Rice: Iraq must take lead to defeat Islamic State

Susan Rice: Iraq must take lead to defeat Islamic State

Sean Lengell · October 12, 2014 6:16 pm

Unknown ‘breach’ led to latest case of Ebola in Texas

Unknown ‘breach’ led to latest case of Ebola in Texas

Sean Lengell · October 12, 2014 4:57 pm

Saudi pilots sit in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria,Â in this image released Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 by the official Saudi Press Agency. Sen. Bernie Sanders noted Saudi Arabia is the world's fourth-largest defense spender, yet he suggested the country hasn't done enough to help defeat Islamic State militants. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

Bernie Sanders: U.S. needs Arab partners to help defeat Islamic State

Sean Lengell · October 12, 2014 3:10 pm