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Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are the chief sponsors of a new bill, which comes in response to the Obama administration's decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and remove them from a terrorism watch list.

Rubio, Cotton move to block financial transactions with Castro regime

Susan Ferrechio · June 3, 2015 5:55 pm

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., right, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Senators debate controversial war funding tactics

Tara Copp · June 3, 2015 5:52 pm

The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee on Wednesday previewed three bills that would delay or handcuff the smog standards.Â EPA science advisors and a children's health panel had unanimously recommended tougher standards to protect the public, especially children and the elderly, from serious respiratory problems caused by breathing ground-level ozone. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Ozone limit comes under fire as GOP plots attack

Zack Colman · June 3, 2015 5:43 pm

Smoke rises after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site believed to be one of the largest weapons depot on the outskirts of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Wednesday June 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

National Security

U.S. official: More than 10,000 jihadists killed in airstrikes

Kelly Cohen · June 3, 2015 4:14 pm

An individual finishes the process of picking and signing up for health insurance through the Affordable Care act. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Most employers not dropping insurance due to Obamacare: Analysis

Robert King · June 3, 2015 4:10 pm

he shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in late 2012 is what prompted President Obama to lift the ban on federal gun violence research. (AP Photo)Â

Dems seek $60 million to fund federal research on gun violence

Pete Kasperowicz · June 3, 2015 4:03 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greets guests after speaking at the South Carolina House Democratic Women's Caucus and Women's Council, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)

Hillary planning campaign swing through early states

Ariel Cohen · June 3, 2015 3:56 pm

Hollywood actor Vince Vaughn told British GQ magazine this week that he supports people having guns in public, "not just in your home." (AP Photo)

Vince Vaughn: 2nd Amendment is there to stop a ‘corrupt and abusive government’

Barbara Boland · June 3, 2015 3:51 pm

Some higher-income seniors will have to pay up to $80 more a month for Medicare in the next few years, a new analysis finds.Â

Wealthy seniors face higher Medicare premiums

Robert King · June 3, 2015 3:07 pm

Dugway Proving Ground military base, about 85 miles southwest Salt Lake City, Utah. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Pentagon warns of more live anthrax discoveries

Tara Copp · June 3, 2015 3:02 pm

People are leaving flowers and notes outside Vice President Joe Biden's house in Washington to express their condolences following the death of his son, Beau Biden. (Photos: Hugo Gurdon)

Flowers for Beau Biden placed outside vice president’s home

Hugo Gurdon · June 3, 2015 2:27 pm

Sixty-two percent of people say Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush represents the past, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. (AP Photo)

Poll: 62% of Americans say Jeb Bush represents the past

Barbara Boland · June 3, 2015 1:51 pm