Tag: Joel Gehrke

Two reporters among the dozens taken to jail. (Carlos Ortiz/Democrat and Chronicle via AP)

Seventy-four arrested at protest in Rochester, N.Y.

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 8:50 pm

Trump hasn't named a running mate, despite conducting a relatively-public search. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Report: Anti-Trump forces seek to pick VP nominee

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 8:26 pm

You don't care about the people!" one Sanders backer said during platform fight. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Clinton camp vetoes anti-TPP plank, rankling Sanders backers

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 7:10 pm

"Police are having a really difficult time in communities where they know guns are everywhere." (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Obama: Legal guns drive wedge between cops and communities

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 6:42 pm

President emphasizes the underlying unity of Americans, despite the racially-charged violence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: This is not the 1960s

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 5:42 pm

"There are ways to say things that show we are a party that believes in fairness,—£ one delegate says. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Republicans mull tweaking LGBT platform language

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 5:06 pm

Move pleases Sanders, but he doesn't endorse her yet. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hillary Clinton proposes Obamacare expansion

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 4:50 pm

"The ongoing racial tensions in our nation must be addressed so that we all respect one another as fellow human beings made in the image of God," said House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House panel seeks to increase police accountability, ease racial tensions

Joel Gehrke · July 8, 2016 8:04 pm

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., and other CBC members urged for an end to the violence that has led to the slayings of police officers in Dallas last night and the fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier in the week. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Black lawmakers connect Dallas shooting to congressional inaction on gun control

Joel Gehrke · July 8, 2016 5:11 pm

The back-and-forth showed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid are clearly aware of the larger political stakes of these debates. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

McConnell and Reid fight for ‘the last word’ on spending bills

Joel Gehrke · July 8, 2016 5:27 am

Trump ‘nailed it’ in House GOP meeting but skeptics remain

Joel Gehrke · July 7, 2016 4:12 pm

"The overwhelming majority of Americans want action to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists and criminals," the California Democrat said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pelosi: GOP House ‘refuses to disarm hate’

Joel Gehrke · July 6, 2016 4:41 pm