Zack Colman

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks to supporters in Hope, Ark., Tuesday, May 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Mike Huckabee: Save Social Security

Zack Colman · May 10, 2015 4:38 pm

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks to supporters in Hope, Ark., Tuesday, May 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Mike Huckabee: I wasn’t selling snake oil diabetes cure

Zack Colman · May 10, 2015 4:28 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington,Wednesday, May 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Sen. Bernie Sanders: ‘We are living in a very strange moment in American history’

Zack Colman · May 10, 2015 3:49 pm

"The threat of the challenge is enormous and it's something we've never seen before," said Brett McGurk, the State Department's special envoy on defeating the Islamic State. (AP File)

Obama official: Defeating Islamic State ‘going to take time’

Zack Colman · May 10, 2015 2:21 pm

First lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address at Tuskegee University, Saturday, May 9, 2015, in Tuskegee, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Michelle Obama: Blacks have been ‘frustrated and invisible’ for ‘decades’

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 9:14 pm

Obama: Elizabeth Warren is ‘absolutely wrong’

Obama: Elizabeth Warren is ‘absolutely wrong’

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 7:47 pm

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivers the commencement address at Liberty University in Williams Stadium at the school in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, May 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Jeb Bush: Obama uses ‘coercive federal power’ to stomp out religious freedom

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 5:17 pm

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, seated, waves to his supporters as he attends with his two sons Gamal Mubarak, left, and Alaa Mubarak, the verdict in the corruption case dubbed by the Egyptian media as the "presidential palaces" affair concerning charges that Mubarak and his two sons embezzled millions of dollars' worth of state funds over the course of a decade in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

National Security

Ex-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak set free

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 4:56 pm

Ebola patient Beatrice Yardolo, center, leaves the Chinese Ebola treatment center were she was treated, surrounded by Ebola health workers on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, March 5, 2015. Liberia released its last Ebola patient, a 58-year old English teacher, from a treatment center in the capital on Thursday, beginning its countdown to being declared Ebola free. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia Ebola-free, says World Health Organization

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 3:53 pm

A South Korean man watches a TV news program showing an image published in North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper of North Korea's ballistic missile believed to have been launched from underwater, at Seoul Railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-oon)

National Security

North Korea says it successfully fired missile from submarine

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 2:57 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, gestures while speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping, second left, watching the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2015. Xi's wife Peng Liyuan is at left, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is on the right, speaking to a veteran. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

National Security

Putin stages biggest military parade since WWII, criticizes West

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 2:47 pm

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairwoman Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told reporters last week that she hoped a draft version would emerge by week's end, though that never materialized. (AP Photo)Â

Energy and Environment

The technical but important bills that could change energy policy

Zack Colman · May 9, 2015 9:00 am