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"Torture is what the al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11," former Vice President Dick Cheney said. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty images)

National Security

Dick Cheney says U.S. did not torture terror suspects

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 4:02 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer came to the defense of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday, saying critics should not compare her to Tea Party icon Sen. Ted Cruz. (AP Photos)

Chuck Schumer: Elizabeth Warren is no Ted Cruz

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 3:50 pm

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., presides over a subcommittee hearing earlier this month. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Extreme interrogations didn’t lead to Osama bin Laden

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 3:18 pm

This March 25, 2014 file photo shows former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., leaving a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Rep. Mike Rogers: ‘Torture’ probe ‘not a bipartisan report’

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 2:35 pm

Nearly a year ago, on Jan. 6, Watt was sworn in as director of the FHFA. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Federal Housing Director Mel Watt stokes housing fear

Joseph Lawler · December 14, 2014 10:00 am

The hearing concerned legislation called the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, which wouldÂ limit the legal definitionÂ of a joint employer to two or more businesses that have "actual, direct andÂ immediate control" over a groupÂ of workers. (AP Photo)Â

Labor board gives unions Christmas gift

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2014 10:00 am

The Capitol Dome and the Capitol Christmas Tree are illuminated late Thursday evening as Congress works to pass a $1.1 trillion U.S. government-wide spending bill and avoid a government shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

After day of drama, Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill for Obama’s signature

Susan Ferrechio · December 14, 2014 3:44 am

The Capitol Dome and the Capitol Christmas Tree are illuminated late Thursday evening as Congress works to pass a $1.1 trillion U.S. government-wide spending bill and avoid a government shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Deal reached on final passage of spending bill

Susan Ferrechio · December 14, 2014 12:59 am

Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue toward Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, during the Justice for All rally. More than 10,000 protesters are converging on Washington in an effort to bring attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police. Civil rights organizations are holding a march to the Capitol on Saturday with the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with white police officers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Al Sharpton, families of killed black men lead ‘Justice for All’ march in Washington

Brian Hughes · December 13, 2014 8:00 pm

Will Elizabeth Warren create headaches for Hillary Clinton?

Rebecca Berg · December 13, 2014 7:00 pm

Dem lawmaker: Warren is ‘demagoguing an issue’ the public doesn’t understand

Brian Hughes · December 13, 2014 6:38 pm

Combined with his tax plan, Sen. Ted Cruz's budget would still increase the deficit by about $250 billion over 10 years. But that's peanuts compared to the $10 trillion increase proposed by Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Senate objections to spending bill slowing, but shouldn’t stop, final passage

Susan Ferrechio · December 13, 2014 5:07 pm