Tag: Minusextra

The rising GOP star, who just won a fourth term in November, would have cleared the primary field. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Sean Duffy passes on Wisconsin Senate race

Nicole Duran · February 16, 2017 4:58 pm

House GOP leadership filled in a few blanks on how it plans to replace Obamacare, in a policy brief sent to members Thursday. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

GOP fills in a few Obamacare blanks

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 16, 2017 4:55 pm

The vote sets up a final confirmation for Pruitt that could come Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Energy and Environment

Senate sets vote for Pruitt as Trump’s EPA chief

John Siciliano · February 16, 2017 4:34 pm

At least seven Pentagon restaurants are closed Thursday for the "Day Without Immigrants" strike, meant to protest President Trump's immigration policies. (Josh Bachman/The Las Cruces Sun-News via AP)

Trump immigration protest shuts down a handful of restaurants in the Pentagon

Jacqueline Klimas · February 16, 2017 4:34 pm

Poorly sourced stories in acclaimed news outlets are damaging and egregious, but they are not "fake news." (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)?

Beltway Confidential

Calling all sloppy reporting ‘fake news’ hurts efforts to fight media bias

Emily Jashinsky · February 16, 2017 4:30 pm

Without a license to barber, cutting hair in Arizona is a crime. It's written right in the state's law code that "a person shall not perform or attempt to perform cosmetology without a license or practice in any place other than in a licensed salon."

Beltway Confidential

Without license to barber, Arizona shuts down cosmetologist giving free haircuts to homeless

Philip Wegmann · February 16, 2017 4:27 pm

Ads tell viewers to urge their senators to support Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Liberal group blasts Neil Gorsuch’s philosophy as ‘existential threat’ to freedoms

Ryan Lovelace · February 16, 2017 4:22 pm

"I think there's a roadmap," said Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. "Whether we are going to be taking a six lane highway or a four lane highway, I don't think that's been determined yet." (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Broad ideas, but no details on Obamacare repeal in GOP meeting

Paige Winfield Cunningham · February 16, 2017 4:22 pm

"The man I'll be announcing for labor is a star," the president told reporters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to hold press conference to announce ‘star’ new Labor pick

Gabby Morrongiello · February 16, 2017 4:15 pm

U.S. household debt jumped in the fourth quarter of 2016, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Thursday. (iStock Photo)

Soaring household debt nears the 2008 peak

Joseph Lawler · February 16, 2017 4:00 pm

Several groups and military bases were called into action to pay for and help the recent surges of illegal immigrant youths into the U.S. AP Photo

Boom: Wall would save taxpayers $64 billion in freebies for illegals

Paul Bedard · February 16, 2017 3:58 pm

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who is also ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter on Wednesday to Michael Dempsey, the acting director of national intelligence, asking for a "comprehensive intelligence briefing" by Feb. 28. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Democrats demand briefing on Flynn’s contact with Russia, phone transcripts

Jacqueline Klimas · February 16, 2017 3:40 pm