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UC Irvine law professor Dave Min, left, is running to unseat Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in California’s 45th District, while Robert Lee Ahn is in a runoff for California’s open 34th District seat. (Photos courtesy Dave Min for Congress, Robert Lee Ahn for Congress)

Korean-American Candidates Enter ‘Final Frontier’

By Eric Garcia
Posted April 17, 2017 at 5:03am
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, left, is fighting a Republican supermajority in the state legislature that has sometimes seemed more intent on thwarting him than governing, Mary C. Curtis writes. (Courtesy Gov. Roy Cooper Facebook page)

Opinion: In North Carolina, the Good and Not-So-Good News

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted April 13, 2017 at 5:04am
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has criticized videos that reveal police conduct more than the conduct itself, Mary C. Curtis writes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

Opinion: Jeff Sessions-Style Policing Makes Everyone Less Safe

By Mary Curtis
Posted April 6, 2017 at 5:02am

Florida Takes Further Steps to Eliminate Confederate Memories

By Alex Gangitano
Posted February 25, 2016 at 1:52pm
Hoyer discussed lessons learned from the past. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

At the Corner of Budget Deal and Poverty

By Alex Gangitano
Posted February 24, 2016 at 7:28pm
Lewis is recognized Wednesday during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall for the "Foot Soldiers of the 1965 Voting Rights Marches, a group of men and women who peacefully marched from Selma to Montgomery in protest of the denial of their right to vote." (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Jeff Sessions Gets Personal at Foot Soldiers Ceremony

By Alex Gangitano
Posted February 24, 2016 at 6:12pm
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., talks about a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. during a tour of the Capitol rotunda that she gave to about 60 D.C. students on Feb. 20, 2014 . (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

Black History Month Wraps Up With Music, Awards, Staffers

By Alex Gangitano
Posted February 20, 2016 at 5:00am
Lewis said he never saw Sanders during major civil rights struggles. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Lewis on Sanders’ Civil Rights Activism: ‘I Never Saw Him’

By Eric Garcia
Posted February 11, 2016 at 2:22pm

Navy Ship Named After Rep. John Lewis

By Alex Gangitano
Posted January 6, 2016 at 6:33pm
Lewis takes a lighter appraoch to social media. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

John Lewis Plays With His Cats

By Alex Gangitano
Posted January 4, 2016 at 2:50pm