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'A troubled history': Bladen County, N.C., has faced 5 elections investigations since 2010

WASHINGTON _ The investigation into voting irregularities in the 2018 election in Bladen County is, at least, the fifth elections case since 2010 in the rural eastern North Carolina county.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 5, 2018

Felons may be back in the hemp farming business

WASHINGTON _ People with felony drug convictions may be able to grow hemp after all.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 5, 2018

Election fraud allegations in NC congressional race: What we know

One month after Election Day, all eyes are on North Carolina's 9th Congressional District.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 4, 2018

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An all-female number-crunching team helped deliver the House to Democrats

WASHINGTON _ The hour was growing late one March night and still neither party knew who had won a key special election in Pennsylvania, where only a few thousand votes separated the candidates. So Dan Sena _ executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee _ turned to his chief…

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 4, 2018

'This may just be the beginning.' US unveils first criminal charges over Panama Papers

WASHINGTON _ Nearly three years after the publication of a massive leak of secret offshore shell-company documents known as the Panama Papers, U.S. prosecutors announced criminal charges Tuesday against four people, including a former top lawyer for Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian firm that helped dictators, drug lords and the ultra-wealthy…

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 4, 2018

Robeson County in North Carolina sounded alarms last summer � now state is investigating election

ST. PAULS, N.C. _ The investigation into election fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District now includes at least two counties _ Bladen and Robeson.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 4, 2018

Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul break with Trump on Khashoggi's killing

WASHINGTON _ Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, two of President Donald Trump's closest allies on foreign policy, said in pointed, angry terms Tuesday that Saudi Arabia's crown prince was behind the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi _ a sharp break with the Trump administration's view.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 4, 2018

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Gray wolf protections on track to survive the current Congress

WASHINGTON _ The gray wolf has been in danger in recent weeks of losing the federal protection that for decades has kept it from being hunted.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 3, 2018

Argentina 'BFF' status questioned as Trump fawns over 'like-minded' Brazil leader

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina _ President Donald Trump walked off, leaving the Argentine president reaching out and alone on stage.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 3, 2018

Contractor at center of NC voter fraud scandal is a convicted felon

CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ A man who worked as an "independent contractor" for Republican Mark Harris' campaign in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District is a convicted felon who faced jail time for fraud and perjury, according to court records.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Dec 3, 2018

Hackers lurked undetected on networks now owned by Marriott for 4 years

WASHINGTON _ Marriott Hotels has learned the hard way from the saying that there are two types of businesses: Those that have been hacked and those that may not yet know they've been hacked.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 30, 2018

Trump delivers on promise with Atlantic offshore testing. It could cost him GOP allies

WASHINGTON _ The Trump administration on Friday approved permits for seismic testing on the Atlantic Coast, a prelude to offshore oil drilling and move that is sure to antagonize Republican governors and lawmakers in the Southeast, whose support the president will need in a 2020 re-election bid.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 30, 2018

Mail-in ballots called into question in NC congressional race

North Carolina's state board of elections again declined to certify Republican Mark Harris' apparent victory over Democrat Dan McCready in the 9th Congressional District on Friday, instead calling for a hearing to discuss the matter on or before Dec. 21.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 30, 2018

China's Xi wins optics game at G-20 as he and Trump compete for Latin America

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina _ The contrast was clear as soon as the two leaders landed.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 30, 2018

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McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 30, 2018

Report says climate change is coming for Kentucky, but lawmakers are skeptical

WASHINGTON _ A Trump administration report touts local Kentucky efforts to combat climate change _ but its dire warnings are having little sway with a coal-friendly, mostly Republican congressional delegation.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 30, 2018

Argentine soybean farmers sow 'green gold' to outlast the US-China trade war

CHIVILCOY, Argentina _ Alejandro Carafi takes long steps through his field of swaying wheat as he explains how he'll cut it all down in the next week to make room for soybeans, what some in this farming community have dubbed "oro verde" _ "green gold."

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 29, 2018

Trump labor secretary out of running for attorney general after Miami Herald report

WASHINGTON _ Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is out of the running to be President Donald Trump's attorney general following a Miami Herald report that he oversaw a sweetheart deal for a wealthy financier accused of raping teenage girls and running a sex-trafficking ring, according to two people close to the…

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 29, 2018

Tim Scott to oppose Farr nomination to federal bench, ending chances of confirmation

WASHINGTON _ Sen. Tim Scott said Thursday he will oppose the nomination of Thomas Farr to the federal bench, assuring the controversial pick will not be confirmed.

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McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 29, 2018

House GOP loses farm bill fight for tougher work requirements for food aid recipients

WASHINGTON _ Federal food aid recipients won't be faced with major new work requirements. And changes in forestry policy that made environmentalists furious are gone.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 28, 2018

As Trump dismisses climate change report, California plans to use it against him

WASHINGTON _ The ominous climate change report the Trump administration released on Thanksgiving weekend could provide legal ammunition for states such as California, which are suing or threatening to sue the federal government over weakened regulations on fossil-fuel industries, automobiles and other contributors to a warming climate.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 28, 2018

Iranian hacking spree hit hospitals, other entities in 43 US states

WASHINGTON _ Two Iranian hackers charged Wednesday in a federal indictment were accused of attacking the computer networks of hospitals and other targets in 43 states, a broad criminal extortion campaign that walloped a heart hospital in Kansas and disrupted one of the nation's largest diagnostic blood testing companies in…

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 28, 2018

Andrew Malcolm: Inside the 2020 presidential race: What to expect from Trump and the Democrats

No one in their right _ or left _ mind would try to predict the 2020 presidential election this far out.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 28, 2018

Nominee moves closer to confirmation and filling long-open federal judge post

WASHINGTON _ Thomas Farr moved one step closer to final confirmation to become a district judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina. With Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote, the Senate agreed to limit debate on Farr's nomination, setting up a final vote Thursday.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 28, 2018

Get ready: The fierce Mississippi Senate race may not be ending anytime soon

BILOXI, Miss. _ The bitterly-contested U.S. Senate runoff in Mississippi may not end _ it looks like the same cast could all run again for the same seat in 2020.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Nov 27, 2018

Fight over wildfire prevention threatens to upend federal farm aid

WASHINGTON _ An increasingly fierce debate about how to prevent deadly wildfires in California is threatening to endanger crucial crop insurance for farmers in Kansas and Missouri.

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