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Carlos Gutierrez, the Cuba-born former Commerce secretary under President George W. Bush, was on hand for the official opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana Friday. (AP File Photo)

A Bush official on Obama’s shortlist for Cuba ambassador?

Susan Crabtree · August 15, 2015 4:01 am

The issue arose when a complaint last year named the McDonald's Corp. as a "joint employer" with its local franchises, a new and unusual interpretation of ownership. (AP)

Hotels, restaurants seek cover from Congress on NLRB ruling

Sean Higgins · August 15, 2015 4:01 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to the Cuban capital to raise the U.S. flag and formally reopen the long-closed U.S. Embassy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Cuba policy critics demand Senate block State’s funding

Susan Crabtree · August 14, 2015 1:54 pm

People listen during a get out the vote rally put on by local unions and Democratic politicians on the grounds of the Jackson Memorial hospital on October 18, 2010 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Business struggles against ‘quickie’ union election rule

Sean Higgins · August 12, 2015 10:47 pm

In this July 7, 2006, file photo, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is shown after it was unveiled in a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

History books will only care if F-35 works, officials say

Jacqueline Klimas · August 12, 2015 4:44 pm

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Rubio: Keeping dissidents from Cuba embassy opening a ‘new low’ for Obama

Susan Crabtree · August 12, 2015 4:22 pm

Labor Secretary Tom Perez has applauded the efforts to raise it to that level in speeches, often appearing at events hosted by activists and politicians. (AP Photo)Â

Labor’s stealth push for a $15 minimum wage

Sean Higgins · August 12, 2015 4:01 am

"I didn't want to go there in the first place, but now we take the oil. We should have kept the oil, now we go in, we knock the hell out of them, take their oil. We thereby take their wealth," Trump said in an interview with "Fox and Friends." (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

National Security

Trump on Islamic State: ‘Knock the hell out of them’

Jacqueline Klimas · August 11, 2015 4:44 pm

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, center, answers reporters questions as he leaves the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a hearing on the appeal of his corruption conviction in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, May 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Former Virginia Gov. takes corruption appeal to Supreme Court

Sean Langille · August 11, 2015 4:24 pm

Lafe Solomon, the acting general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, testifies during a U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform field hearing on an NLRB complaint against Boeing Co. on Friday, June 17, 2011, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Courts keep ruling Obama labor officials serve illegally

Sean Higgins · August 11, 2015 4:01 am

Federal authorities say the charges against Nader Saadeh, 20, stem from an FBI investigation into a group of individuals in New York and New Jersey and their support for the Islamic State.Â (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

New Jersey resident arrested on charges of supporting ISIS

Susan Crabtree · August 10, 2015 9:08 pm

Police stand near a suspect in a parking lot after gunfire during a protest on the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Suspect sustains critical injuries after shootout with Ferguson police

Sean Langille · August 10, 2015 5:22 pm