Tag: Minusextra

Technology developer Jan Langebach sets up a Jenoptik-Votan BIM laser machine for laser cutting of 3D plastic automative parts during a presentation on March 7. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer).

Is it time for a robot tax?

Daniel Chaitin · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan blame the House Freedom Caucus for their lack of party loyalty. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The coming Republican fight on spending

Joseph Lawler, James Antle · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

A city worker assesses a street where a landslide occurred in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles on Jan. 31. The home's backyard crumbled, sending mud and debris down a slope, across a street and into the front yards of two other houses. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Predicting landslides: Western lawmakers want better ways to save communities

Kyle Feldscher · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks with a member of the clergy as they leave St. Mathews Cathedral after the Red Mass in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Thomas set to be longest-serving justice on Supreme Court

Paul Bedard · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

The Justice Department is refusing to say whether it plans to divert any funds in any future settlements its is pursuing or if it instead plans formally prohibit the practice.

Obama’s ‘slush fund’ settlements may survive under Trump

Sean Higgins · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

Audience members react as a woman expresses anguish about proposed cuts to Medicaid during a town hall hosted by U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., on March 24 at the Commerce Center Community Room in Paducah, Ky. (Ryan Hermens/The Paducah Sun via AP)

Last-minute Medicaid expansions complicate Obamacare repeal

Robert King · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

FTC takes over as top cybersecurity enforcer

Charlie Mitchell · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, right, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, depart after a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on March 23. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Conservatives gun for a debt ceiling win under Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump shakes hands with Petty Office 1st Class John Thompson ABE1, during a tour of the nuclear aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, on March 2 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport, Va. Trump traveled to Virginia to meet with sailors and shipbuilders on aircraft carrier which is scheduled to be commissioned this year after cost overruns and delays. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump’s Navy buildup

Jacqueline Klimas · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

"Lots of parents are scraping by to send their child to a school of choice and sacrificing financially to do so and I just don't believe those parents should have to pay twice," said Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

School choice advocates gear up for big win

Joel Gehrke · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

Protesters take part in a No Ban, No Wall rally to support the rights of immigrants, oppose a border wall, and support sanctuary cities on Feb. 28 at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Trump’s sanctuary city threat rests in the hands of Obama-appointed judge

Gabby Morrongiello · April 3, 2017 4:01 am

"I find a refreshing, bipartisan spirit on the Armed Services Committee. Many of my Democrat colleagues especially many of them who have served in the military themselves, they agree that the sequester has greatly diminished the military and limited the ability of the military to rebuild and grow to meet the threats that we face," said Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind. (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Rep. Jim Banks: Trump’s Navy fleet plan is ‘absolutely necessary’

Al Weaver · April 3, 2017 4:01 am