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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'MalleyÂ released his own white paper on climate change. He declared that the United States has a "moral obligation" to address climate change and promised to put that at the center of his presidential campaign.Â (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Energy and Environment

Democrats follow the pope on climate change

Ariel Cohen · June 18, 2015 8:10 pm

"The shift in the electorate may help explain the attention being garnered by long-shot candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who has used the label "socialist" to describe himself and who is avowedly liberal across the board," Gallup said. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Democrats are moving left: Gallup

Nathan Rubbelke · June 18, 2015 7:28 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Donald trumping other candidates on Google

Kelly Cohen · June 18, 2015 7:16 pm

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., accompanied by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2015, following a policy luncheon. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

National Security

Senate Democrats block defense spending bill

Charles Hoskinson · June 18, 2015 6:15 pm

Watch: Loretta Lynch calls Charleston church shooting a ‘barbaric act’

Kelly Cohen · June 18, 2015 6:15 pm

"No, there is no action pending or scheduled before the House," Kevin McCarthy said. Steny Hoyer asked McCarthy to repeat that, and he did: "There is no action scheduled for this House." (AP Photo)Â

GOP leader: House has no plans to save Export-Import Bank

Pete Kasperowicz · June 18, 2015 5:59 pm

A smokestack at a gas production facility in western Wyoming.Â The smog rules would cut the current ozone standard of 75 parts per billion to as low as 65.Â (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)

Energy and Environment

Senate panel blocks Obama environmental policies

Zack Colman · June 18, 2015 5:43 pm

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Thursday he expects the Senate to pass the joined AGOA/TAA measure despite Democratic opposition. (AP Photo)

House Dems warn Senate on trade deal

Susan Ferrechio · June 18, 2015 5:29 pm

Martha Baker, a Registered Nurse, (R) delivers 13,000 petition signatures demanding healthcare expansion to the office of Florida State Rep. Jose Oliva, whose Hialeah district includes the highest number of Obamacare sign ups in the nation, as the Florida legislative body debates accepting Affordable Care Act funding on May 28, 2015 in Hialeah, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Primary care providers view Obamacare along partisan lines

Robert King · June 18, 2015 5:22 pm

Â In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2012, file photo, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, right, talks to a supporter during a break in a hearing protesting his re-election in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo)Â

Pastor who was killed in Charleston Church ‘an advocate for the people’

Elizabeth Potter · June 18, 2015 5:20 pm

Nurse Patricia Schmidt assists with a positron emission tomography cat scan, or PET-CT, on a patient at River Radiology in Kingston, N.Y., Friday, June 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

House votes to repeal medical device tax

Paige Winfield Cunningham · June 18, 2015 5:19 pm

The Census Bureau is considering a new way to ask Americans about their race or origin in the 2020 census. (Screenshot)

Census Bureau may drop ‘race’ from 2020 survey

Kelly Cohen · June 18, 2015 5:12 pm