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On Tuesday, the 115th Congress passed a new rules package that includes an effective ban on representatives live streaming video or posting photos from the floor of the House. The controversial provision was proposed last month by the Republican-led Congress, and passed primarily on party lines when presented as part of a larger rules package. […]

WASHINGTON — Democrats face more political risk in opposing repeal of Obamacare than they might think. Republicans will keep reminding people of the Affordable Care Act’s more unpopular legacies — higher premiums, fewer choices, federal subsidies for coverage — and how they were enacted by Democrats. That effort began Wednesday, as the Senate began debating

LOS ANGELES — During his more than four decades behind bars, convicted murderer Charles Manson — the mastermind behind a gory 1969 Los Angeles killing rampage — has been an unrepentant and incorrigible inmate, repeatedly cited for behavioral problems including hiding cellphones and a hacksaw in his cell. State corrections officials say Manson, now 82,

With two simple words – “I do” – Ilhan Omar began her term as a lawmaker in the Minnesota House of Representatives, accomplishing what few people thought possible during an election year where Muslim Americans were at the center of heated political debate about immigration and terrorism. “The Muslim community needs a win,” says Asad

LOS ANGELES — Days after a Pomona artist told reporters that he altered the Hollywood sign to read “HOLLYWeeD,” Los Angeles Police detectives say they plan to submit their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for possible prosecution. LAPD Officer Liliana Preciado said Wednesday that investigators were “talking to a person” in

DALLAS — Former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson reached an agreement late Tuesday with the oil giant’s board of directors to sever his financial ties with the company. The agreement, which includes an independently managed trust prohibited from investing in Exxon, is intended to free Tillerson from ethics conflicts before his confirmation hearing as

WASHINGTON — Is Donald Trump going wobbly on repealing Obamacare, one of his signature campaign pledges? A series of vague statements Wednesday that Republicans “must be careful” and that the law will “fall of its own weight” suggested that he might be having second thoughts. Backtracking on that pledge, not only one of his biggest

WASHINGTON — Democrats might defy a newly imposed ban on recording video from the floor of the House of Representatives, a rule change that Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver charges is aimed at punishing lawmakers like himself for staging a gun control sit-in last year. House Republicans voted on Tuesday to impose fines of $500 to

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a one-paragraph order, telling Florida prosecutors and judges for the second time in three months that the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional and “cannot be applied to pending prosecutions.” It comes one day after the chief judge for Seminole and Brevard counties, John Galluzzo,