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This July 28, 2011 file photo shows Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., left, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

National Security

Lawmaker offers bill to punish cyber hackers with trade sanctions

Elizabeth Potter · July 14, 2015 4:45 pm

"It's going to hand a dangerous regime billions of dollars in sanctions relief while paving away for a nuclear Iran," John Boehner told reporters after meeting with his GOP colleagues Tuesday morning. (AP Photo)Â

Republicans mull August hearings on Iran deal to amplify opposition

Susan Crabtree · July 14, 2015 3:18 pm

Traffic backs up at an intersecton in front of NRG Energy's Joliet Station power plant on May 7, 2015 in Joliet, Illinois. According to scientists, global carbon dioxide concentrations have reached a new monthly record of 400 parts per million, levels that haven't been seen for about two million years. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Emissions from power plants fall even as economy improves

Zack Colman · July 14, 2015 12:00 pm

$US Secretary of State John Kerry, second right, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, second left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, meet at Palais Coburg Hotel, where the Iran nuclear talks are being held, in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, diplomats Tuesday declared that world powers and Iran had struck a landmark deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. (Joe Klamar/Pool Photo via AP)$ National Security

The Iran deal is done. Now what?

Charles Hoskinson · July 14, 2015 10:38 am

Greg Gutfeld of "The Greg Gutfeld Show" on Monday called out the criticism of candidate Donald Trump within the GOP and the negative effect it could have on the rest of the party's candidates. (AP Photo)Â

GOP infighting creates inroads for Dems

Emilie Padgett · July 14, 2015 10:27 am

ScottÂ Walker's move adds another Republican to a growing list of presidential candidates who have helped build momentum behind 20-week abortion bans, which have been passed by more than a dozen states in recent years.Â (AP Photo)Â

Walker to become third GOP candidate to sign abortion ban

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 14, 2015 4:01 am

A member of Scouts for Equality holds an unofficial knot patch incorportating the colors of the rainbow, a symbol for gay rights, during a rally to call for equality and inclusion for gays in the Boy Scouts of America as part of the 'Scouts for Equality Day of Action' May 22, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Boy Scouts move to end ban on gay leaders

Kelly Cohen · July 13, 2015 9:06 pm

Lawmaker says DOJ ignoring Congress’ call to investigate rape cases

Elizabeth Potter · July 13, 2015 8:33 pm

The National Institutes of Health has spent a total of $3.5 million to research why 75 percent of lesbians are obese. (Getty Images file)

$3.5 million spent researching lesbian obesity rates

Elizabeth Potter · July 13, 2015 8:29 pm

Alexander Ciccolo of Adams, Mass., had bought two pistols and two rifles from an undercover agent. (Image courtesy Department of Justice)

Son of Boston police captain arrested as possible terrorist

Kelly Cohen · July 13, 2015 7:04 pm

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks at a campaign event Saturday, July 11, 2015, in Henderson, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Marco Rubio raises $12 million

David M. Drucker · July 13, 2015 4:47 pm

"Pundits can evaluate the political meaning if the want, but my view is very plain: These are hateful and racist viewpoints," Richard Trumka said. (AP Photo)Â

Union boss doesn’t waste words in response to Walker announcement

Sean Higgins · July 13, 2015 4:00 pm