Julie Pace and Nancy Benac, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be a joke. “Are you still president?” comedian Stephen Colbert asked Barack...
(Politico) – Bobby Jindal is Indian-American, but you’ll never hear him describe himself that way. Marco Rubio insists he’s an “American of Hispanic descent.” And Ted...
(Politico) – The Deep South has elected Republicans to every top office in the region. Now it wants to be sure that clout extends to...
(The Washington Post) – Thousands of female veterans are struggling to get health-care treatment and compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the grounds...
The Associated Press Key factors as the 2016 presidential race begins to take shape: ___ DEMOCRATS’ ELECTORAL COLLEGE BASELINE: Democrats have won the same group of...
STEPHEN BRAUN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While the Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation program and the spy agency’s official response clash on almost every...
(Politico) – Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his biggest challenge will be righting the course of Congress, adding — in a swipe at outgoing...
PETE YOST, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to rule on the merits of the case, a federal judge has rejected an Arizona sheriff’s lawsuit seeking...
(Politico) – Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can’t do the New Politics if you don’t...
(The Washington Post) – Giuliani made headlines after his statement on Fox News, which he repeated the next day on CNN. His remarks were unusually...
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For as often as Democrats attack the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch for their heavy spending on politics,...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s pick to be the next attorney general is winning over Republicans. Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District...
Glenn Kessler, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s time for our annual round-up of the biggest Pinocchios of the year. The midterm elections, of course,...
Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY (USA Today)—It didn’t take long for Jeb Bush to find out what he’ll be debating with his fellow Republicans if...
Eric Bradner, CNN Washington (CNN)—President Barack Obama prodded Congress to eliminate the United States’ decades-old Cuba embargo Friday, saying that improving relations with the communist...
SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s top law enforcement official promises to vigorously defend the state’s historic law legalizing marijuana...
RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press DAVID RISING, Associated Press RANDY HERSCHAFT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday capped a swift and forceful response...
(NPR) – The Secret Service must both change the way it trains agents and hire more of them, according to a panel that reviewed the...
HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government isn’t fully prepared to handle a nuclear terrorist attack or a large-scale natural catastrophe, lacks effective...
(Politico) – Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state, is threatening to take Rand Paul to court to block him from running simultaneously for president...
(Politico) – The Obama administration will soon publish its plan to rate more than 6,000 colleges nationwide based on the value they provide to students and...
CATHERINE LUCEY, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Liberal activists eager to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren into a run for president are working the ground...
JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Gross spent five years wasting away in a Cuban prison, losing hope that he would ever be free...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared Tuesday that approving the Keystone XL pipeline will top the Senate agenda in...
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she’s proud to have been part of an administration that “banned illegal renditions...
