Sean Lengell

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A worker at the Alternative Herbal Health Services cannabis dispensary weighs medicinal marijuana in San Francisco. The Senate Judiciary Committee invited Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss ways to resolve conflicts between state and federal marijuana laws. (Getty Images)

Senate panel asks attorney general to help hash out conflicts with pot laws

Sean Lengell · August 26, 2013 4:00 am

Energy and Environment

Decision on Keystone pipeline likely delayed until 2014

Sean Lengell · August 26, 2013 4:00 am

Black columns of smoke rise from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood, east of Damascus, Syria, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Members of Congress press for military action against Syria

Sean Lengell · August 25, 2013 4:00 am

Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said lawmakers must be fully aware of government surveillance programs within the United States. (Examiner File/Graeme Jennings)

Lawmakers accuse NSA of keeping Congress in dark

Sean Lengell · August 25, 2013 4:00 am

Ben Affleck's casting as Batman in an upcoming film drew rave reviews from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Senate's leading Batman fanatic. (AP image)

Pow! Sen. Patrick Leahy loves Affleck pick for Batman role

Sean Lengell · August 23, 2013 4:00 am

Obama: Conflicts in Syria, Egypt require US ‘attention’

Obama: Conflicts in Syria, Egypt require US ‘attention’

Sean Lengell · August 23, 2013 4:00 am

A coalition of evangelical groups began airing radio ads in 14 states this week to press Congress to reform the nationâs immigration laws, which it says have led to âa moral, economic and political crisis in America.â (AP/Ben Margot)

Evangelical groups use radio ads to push for immigration reform

Sean Lengell · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. James Clyburn told Sirius XMâs POTUS show on Thursday that while race relations have improved in the U.S. under President Obama, âright wing bloggersâ â with the complicit help of the mainstream media â have unfairly demonized the Obama administration other favorite conservative targets. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. James Clyburn scolds ‘right wing bloggers’ for acting like Nazis

Sean Lengell · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

Justice Department sues Texas over voter ID law

Justice Department sues Texas over voter ID law

Sean Lengell · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

House Republicans sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner Ohio, left, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, calling for the body to continue efforts to repeal Obamacare. (AP File)

House Republicans urge their leaders to defund Obamacare

Sean Lengell · August 22, 2013 4:00 am

UPS drops health insurance for employee spouses, blames Obamacare

UPS drops health insurance for employee spouses, blames Obamacare

Sean Lengell · August 21, 2013 4:00 am

Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin, D-Mich., made public previously redacted IRS training documents showing that agency employees were instructed to screen tax-exemption applications for Democratic leaning âemergeâ organizations alongside âprogressiveâ and conservative âTea Partyâ groups. (AP File)

Documents show IRS targeted liberal groups

Sean Lengell · August 20, 2013 4:00 am