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According to the Chicago Tribune, January homicides are up 24 percent compared to last year. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Chicago: 2017 shootings near 300

Kelly Cohen · January 30, 2017 10:04 pm

In 2016, the FDA announced it would be shelling out $36 million on a campaign to inform young people that "smokeless doesn't mean harmless." (Food and Drug Administration via AP)

Beltway Confidential

FDA must come clean about the real risks of smokeless tobacco

Guy Bentley · January 30, 2017 9:59 pm

Newsrooms hinting Quebec shooting was inspired by islamophobia without any real evidence. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Francis Vachon)

Beltway Confidential

Newsrooms show curious standard in covering the Quebec shooting

Becket Adams · January 30, 2017 9:59 pm

A day before President Trump plans to announce his nominee to the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday portrayed Democrats as a party with a long history of opposing Republican picks to fill the high court. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

McConnell: Democrats have long history of obstructing GOP Supreme Court picks

Susan Ferrechio · January 30, 2017 9:58 pm

Democrats invoked a rarely used Senate rule to put off the treasury nominee's vote until Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Committee vote on Mnuchin nomination delayed

Joseph Lawler · January 30, 2017 9:56 pm

House Republicans will move Monday to undo one of President Obama's efforts to change labor regulations to benefit unions. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

GOP moves to undo one of Obama’s final labor rules

Sean Higgins · January 30, 2017 9:40 pm

"Lewandowski simply has no shame," says former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Roger Stone reflects on Trump campaign in new book: Lewandowski ‘has no shame’

Eddie Scarry · January 30, 2017 9:36 pm

"If [Trump] picks a nominee who is as extreme as he has indicated, activists will gather at the Supreme Court at 9 p.m. calling on senators to stand up for the Constitution and reject the nominee," reads an advisory distributed by the Alliance for Justice. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Left-leaning groups to demonstrate outside Supreme Court after Trump selects a nominee

Ryan Lovelace · January 30, 2017 9:28 pm

"I urge my Republican colleagues to help us overturn this wrong-headed and un-American executive order," Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a floor speech Monday. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Democrats ask GOP to help repeal Trump immigration order

Susan Ferrechio · January 30, 2017 9:21 pm

In China, the ratio of boys to girls has dropped from 121 boys to 100 girls in 2004 to 114:100 in 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Beltway Confidential

How parents learned to stop worrying and love their daughters

Daniel Allott · January 30, 2017 9:15 pm

"An FTC framework for fraud news would treat these readers as 'consumers,'" says MSNBC's Ari Melber. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Reporter: FTC can regulate what’s real news, what’s ‘fake news’

Daniel Chaitin · January 30, 2017 9:14 pm

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., took the lead on the letter to Trump. (AP Photos)

Lawmakers urge Trump to support Mattis’ exemption from ban for Iraqi interpreters

Jacqueline Klimas · January 30, 2017 8:46 pm