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Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, Calif., like other schools across the country, has had to close because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus creates funding time bomb for public schools

By Joshua Eaton and Ilana Marcus
Posted April 2, 2020 at 8:00am
A new report by the nonpartisan advocacy group Fix the Court offers a rare glimpse into the perks Supreme Court justices receive when they travel to speak at private colleges and universities. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Supreme Court justices’ perks revealed in new report

By Joshua Eaton
Posted March 24, 2020 at 5:20pm
The Bureau of Prisons is continuing to transfer inmates, raising concerns by lawmakers and prison staff that could lead to a spread of coronavirus.

Fears grow that inmate transfers may spread coronavirus to communities

By Joshua Eaton
Posted March 23, 2020 at 5:26pm
Judge Jim Ho of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, developed close ties with Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, who supported his nomination. Both senators serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Federal judges: From political players to lifetime appointments

By Ilana Marcus, Joshua Eaton and Ed Timms
Posted March 20, 2020 at 5:00am
Neomi Rao, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, has written dissents in two cases involving her former boss at the White House, President Donald Trump.

Trump-appointed judge playing defense on presidential powers

By Ilana Marcus, Joshua Eaton and Ed Timms
Posted March 18, 2020 at 6:02am
Federal prisons do not have coronavirus test kits. Inmates can be highly susceptible to infectious diseases.

Federal prisons don’t have coronavirus test kits for inmates

By Joshua Eaton
Posted March 6, 2020 at 7:12pm

Cashing in on justice

By Joshua Eaton, Ilana Marcus and Ed Timms
Posted March 3, 2020 at 5:00am
California Rep. Jimmy Panetta has introduced legislation that would stop the FBI from purging incomplete gun background checks from its systems after 88 days.

Lawmakers seek to tighten gun background checks

By Joshua Eaton
Posted February 21, 2020 at 7:15pm, Updated February 22, 2020 at 8:36pm
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the State Department earlier this month. He used an unlabeled map in an attempt to stump NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly on the location of Ukraine. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Can you point to Ukraine? It may be a while before you get your chance

By Joshua Eaton
Posted January 28, 2020 at 3:36pm
Many gun background checks are never completed by the FBI because they are purged from the agency’s computers. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images file photo)

FBI never completes hundreds of thousands of gun checks

By Joshua Eaton
Posted December 3, 2019 at 11:54am
President Donald Trump talks to the media on the South Lawn upon his return to the White House via Marine One on Nov. 3. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump complains about cost of Democrats’ impeachment lawyer — but GOP lawyer made more

By Joshua Eaton
Posted November 13, 2019 at 2:17pm
When scandals hit the nation’s capital, Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing are ready and willing to share their thoughts on air. The impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump is just the latest. (Photo illustration by Jason Mann/CQ Roll Call)

The Vicki & Joe Show: D.C. power couple hit airwaves as impeachment inquiry moves forward

By Ilana Marcus and Joshua Eaton
Posted November 12, 2019 at 8:00am
Rep. TJ Cox represents farmers in California’s Central Valley. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Democrats’ Bernhardt probe has California’s Cox in a tough spot

By Jael Holzman and Joshua Eaton
Posted October 31, 2019 at 6:00am
The U.S. military took a DNA sample from Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, shown here in 2014, more than a decade before he was killed, records show. (Al-Furqan Media/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images file photo)

Coalition forces collected DNA from ISIS leader al-Baghdadi in 2004

By Joshua Eaton
Posted October 29, 2019 at 6:07pm
Rudy Giuliani’s consulting firm reportedly got a $500,000 consulting fee from a company that was reported as inactive years earlier by Florida officials. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)

State officials dissolved company long before $500K deal with Giuliani

By Joshua Eaton and Ed Timms
Posted October 17, 2019 at 12:45pm
A PAC that supported West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s failed 2018 Senate bid discovered Thursday that it had received a contribution tied to two men who helped President Donald Trump's private lawyer push for an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

PAC would return contribution tied to Trump impeachment probe — if it only could

By Joshua Eaton
Posted October 11, 2019 at 11:32am
Mourners enter Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015 after a mass shooting by Dylann Roof, a self-declared white supremacist, left nine people dead. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images file photo)

Charleston mass murderer got his gun because of background check gaps, internal report shows

By Joshua Eaton
Posted October 10, 2019 at 6:00am
The House Appropriations Committee has asked Attorney General William Barr to clarify testimony he gave Congress in April. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Justice Department slow to answer Congress on gun background checks

By Joshua Eaton
Posted October 10, 2019 at 6:00am
The Wikipedia page for Rep. Jim Jordan falsely claimed Monday morning that he was a founder of a group that advocates for sexual relationships between men and boys. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Wikipedia page falsely claims Jim Jordan a NAMBLA founder after Trump defense

By Joshua Eaton
Posted September 30, 2019 at 12:18pm
What happens to the nomination of William N. Bryan to a senior Department of Homeland Security post may now rest with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. McConnell is shown here with Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Todd Young, R-Ind., and John Thune, R-S.D. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Federal agency ordered to investigate Homeland Security nominee

By Joshua Eaton
Posted September 19, 2019 at 4:18pm