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Aziz Ansari plays Bobby Jindal on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

Editorial Staff · November 5, 2015 2:56 pm

The Feb. 1 Iowa contest marks the first election of the 2016 primary season, and Jindal's shoestring campaign is at a distinct disadvantage as the governor battles to become the third consecutive political afterthought to win a surprise caucus upset. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Can Bobby Jindal ride his super PAC to an Iowa upset?

David M. Drucker · November 5, 2015 5:01 am

Former 6th District Congressman Howard Coble died Tuesday night. He was 84 years old.Â (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Former N.C. Rep. Howard Coble dies

Kelly Cohen · November 4, 2015 4:08 pm

"He has tried to go around Congress by ordering his administration to create a new legal status for undocumented immigrants," Speaker Paul Ryan wrote of Presidnet Obama in an op-ed in USA Today.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Ryan: Americans ‘can’t trust’ Obama to ‘uphold the law’

Pete Kasperowicz · November 4, 2015 12:58 pm

Members of the House are scheduled to work 22 fewer days in 2016 than they did in 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

House sets shorter 2016 calendar to prep for election

Pete Kasperowicz · November 3, 2015 6:37 pm

Ryan: ‘Not concerned’ by shots from White House wannabes

David M. Drucker · November 3, 2015 5:40 pm

Ryan hints at policy riders in upcoming spending bills

Susan Ferrechio · November 3, 2015 4:14 pm

GOP hopes to shed ‘shutdown’ label with budget deal

Susan Ferrechio · November 3, 2015 5:01 am

Iowa poll: Cruz rising, Jindal tops Bush and Fiorina

Ryan Lovelace · November 2, 2015 10:35 pm

A surveillance blimpÂ broke loose from its moorings at Aberdeen Proving Ground in MarylandÂ on Wednesday, one of four built for the Army at a cost of $175 million each. The blimp was deflated and brought down in a rural area of Pennsylvania.Â (Jimmy May/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise via AP)

National Security

Chaffetz wants answers on blimp program

Charles Hoskinson · November 2, 2015 5:28 pm

Marco Rubio has an opportunity because he can straddle the various categories better than any of the other candidates. (The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Rubio well placed as an insider outsider

W. James Antle III · November 2, 2015 5:01 am

Boehner officially resigned Saturday, after Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was elected to replace him as speaker. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Date set for special election to replace Boehner

Daniel Chaitin · November 1, 2015 11:49 pm