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The House would vote on a measure, authored by Ted Yoho, R-Fla., that would declare the president does not have the authority to implement his plan to halt deportations. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

GOP weighs two-part plan to fund government, block Obama move on deportations

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 4:32 pm

House Speaker John Boehner said House Republicans likely will have to wait until the party takes control of the Senate in early January before they push back at President Obama's executive action on immigration. (AP Photo)

House Republicans likely to punt on immigration until early 2015

Sean Lengell · December 2, 2014 4:25 pm

Chef Tom Colicchio is famous for putting "Top Chef" contestants on the hot seat, and on Tuesday he'll be doing the same to lawmakers. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty images for City Harvest)

Energy and Environment

‘Top Chefs’ descend on D.C. to push Congress on GMO labeling

Kelly Cohen · December 2, 2014 3:53 pm

Sen. Rob Portman will not run for president, he said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Rob Portman says he will not run for president

Rebecca Berg · December 2, 2014 3:12 pm

U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, the opening day of the World Economic Forum where world's financial and political elite will meet in the upcoming days. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Energy and Environment

UN chief: Oil prices show renewables a safer bet

Zack Colman · December 2, 2014 3:12 pm

If inflation continues to fall, the Federal Reserve would have to respond by guaranteeing lower interest rates for longer, Federal Reserve vice chairman Stanley Fischer said Tuesday. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Fed’s Stanley Fischer: Falling inflation would force Fed to keep rates low

Joseph Lawler · December 2, 2014 3:11 pm

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., right, and Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., greet each other before the start of their final debate for the Senate election runoff in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

La. Senate debate hews to midterm elections script

Rebecca Berg · December 2, 2014 3:11 pm

NATO tightens defenses against Russia

Charles Hoskinson · December 2, 2014 10:00 am

Senate poised to approve big Obama donors as ambassadors

Susan Crabtree · December 2, 2014 10:00 am

Of all the energy-producing nations, the United States looks to be theÂ relative winner of the current free-fall in oil prices. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

U.S. competitors hurting as oil prices drop

Zack Colman · December 2, 2014 10:00 am

Congressional Black Caucus: Ferguson ruling ‘another slap in our face’

Susan Ferrechio · December 2, 2014 2:36 am

U.S. Border Patrol agents detain immigrants in brushland some 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Brooks County on July 23, 2014 near Falfurrias, Texas. (Photo by John Moore/Getty images)

Conservatives’ bill would block Obama’s deportation directive

Susan Ferrechio · December 1, 2014 11:37 pm