Tag: Minusextra

Trump should work with Congress to enact meaningful criminal justice reforms, including axing some mandatory minimum sentences, repealing outdated criminal laws and ending racial disparity for drug crimes. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trump’s Nixon-in-China opportunity with black voters

Washington Examiner · November 28, 2016 5:03 am

The reasoning and stated positions of the protesters seem to have little to do with the citizens of Morton County, N.D., or even the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Who are the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters standing with?

Bruce Strinden · November 28, 2016 5:02 am

Most of the GOP, along with more than half the nation's state attorneys general, believe the Clean Power Plan is illegal and should be repealed, which Trump has vowed he will do. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Energy and Environment

GOP fighting off last-minute attempts at new climate regs

John Siciliano · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

Will the 45th president do for infrastructure what he did for Wollman Rink? (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Will Donald Trump do for infrastructure what he did for Wollman Rink?

Michael Barone · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

The Trump team, and the president-elect himself, haven't been shy about calling out China for unfair trade practices. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China could retaliate if Trump follows through with threats over trade policies

Charlie Mitchell · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

After November's election, the Republican Party faces the unexpected trifecta of holding the presidency, a majority on the FCC and retaining Antonin Scalia's seat on the court. (AP Photo)

Why net neutrality’s days may be numbered

Rudy Takala · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

Two U.S. service members were killed and four more were wounded in northern Afghanistan as they helped Afghan Security forces who were battling the Taliban in Kunduz province. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

More Americans are dying in Afghanistan, but no one’s talking about how to stop it

Jacqueline Klimas · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

Over the past few years, the Financial Stability Oversight Council has been studying the possibility that big asset managers and hedge funds could face some sort of extra scrutiny.

Dodd-Frank’s controversial council faces the ax

Joseph Lawler · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

Will Republicans hold our party to the same standards we expected from Democrats under President Obama? (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Will Trump’s supporters assess him honestly?

Lauri Regan · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

Planned Parenthood supporters rally for women's access to reproductive healthcare at Los Angeles City Hall. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Planned Parenthood faces its own fiscal cliff

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 28, 2016 5:01 am

Colin Kaepernick, ignoring the boos. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Football fans boo Castro supporters

Jeremy Lott · November 28, 2016 1:24 am

Democratic group suggests ties between President-elect Trump and Russia over Trump's vodka, marketed in Russia. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

Vodkagate: Dems see Putin payback for Trump over biz deals

Paul Bedard · November 27, 2016 11:50 pm