Tag: Minusextra

Hillary Clinton will write a book reflecting on her loss in the 2016 election to President Trump. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Hillary Clinton to write book about election loss

Sarah Bedford · February 1, 2017 2:58 pm

Republicans advanced the nominations of Steven Mnuchin to be treasury secretary and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., to be health and human services secretary. (AP Photos)

Senate panel advances Mnuchin, Price nominations without Democrats

Joseph Lawler · February 1, 2017 2:49 pm

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will square off in a one-on-one debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photos)

Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz set to debate Obamacare

Kyle Feldscher · February 1, 2017 2:47 pm

Defense Secretary James Mattis has ordered a review of the two expensive Pentagon acquisition programs that have come under scrutiny from President Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Mattis orders accelerated budget review to fund ‘larger, more capable’ military

Jamie McIntyre · February 1, 2017 2:02 pm

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on cyber security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Washington Secrets

Bannon is gold for liberal fundraisers

Paul Bedard · February 1, 2017 1:38 pm

Rep. Gerry Connolly reintroduced legislation aimed at giving federal workers a 3.2 percent pay raise. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Democrat wants 3.2 percent pay hike for federal workers

Pete Kasperowicz · February 1, 2017 1:29 pm

A few Democratic senators pledged Wednesday to give Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick for the court, a chance to make his case for the nomination.

Democrats tell colleagues to give Gorsuch a chance

Kyle Feldscher · February 1, 2017 1:20 pm

Protesters hold signs at airports to denounce President Trump's executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Trump on Wednesday weighed in on whether his Friday executive order amounts to an immigration "ban" or not. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Trump on immigration ban: ‘Call it what you want’

Kyle Feldscher · February 1, 2017 1:10 pm

The New York Times editorial board said Senate Democrats should avoid attempting to block a hearing for federal Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick for the vacant Supreme Court seat. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New York Times to Democrats: Don’t filibuster Gorsuch

Eddie Scarry · February 1, 2017 12:54 pm

African migrants clash with Israeli soldiers after they left Holot detention center in southern Israel and walked towards the border with Egypt near the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nitzana in 2014. Israel build an effective fence to stop the illegal migration that the U.S. is studying for its new border wall. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Copying Israel’s wall would cut Trump’s price nearly in half

Paul Bedard · February 1, 2017 12:25 pm

The nuclear clock is ticking and Chuck Schumer knows it. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Beltway Confidential

The three numbers that will keep Democrats from blocking Neil Gorsuch

Philip Wegmann · February 1, 2017 12:00 pm

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer faced more questions Tuesday afternoon about the reported death of Anwar al-Awlaki's eight-year-old daughter than the Obama administration faced in the five years after it droned the radical cleric's son. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

White House press corps very interested now in the death of one of al-Awlaki’s children

Becket Adams · February 1, 2017 5:06 am