The Capitol Rotunda was dripping Tuesday morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
On day 32 of the longest government shutdown in modern history, it looked like an iconic symbol of American democracy had sprung a leak.
The Capitol Dome, which reaches 287 feet tall, recently underwent a $60 million restoration. But something was amiss Tuesday morning.
President Trump is briefed earlier this week in the Oval Office as Hurricane Florence was poised to hammer the Carolinas. (White House photo via Flickr)
ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump, just one day after even Republicans criticized him for claiming nearly 3,000 people did not die last year in Puerto Rico due to two powerful hurricanes, shared a FEMA tweet warning against spreading false information.
Trump ended Thursday evening — as Hurricane Florence began bearing down on the North Carolina coast — by slamming former Secretary of State John Kerry, the longtime senator and failed 2004 Democratic presidential nominee who might be eyeing a 2020 run. He started Friday — with Florence dumping rainfall measured in feet as it made landfall in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina — with a series of tweets urging people in the storm’s path to take steps to remain safe.
Sunny and snowless day on Jan. 22, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Despite the snowpocalypse expected to hit the East Coast on Friday, leaders on both sides of the issue are gearing up to mark another anniversary of the Supreme Court’s abortion decision.
Since the year after Roe v. Wade in 1973, anti-abortion advocates have been protesting every year on the anniversary at the March for Life, the organizers say that despite the forecast, this year's March for Life will not be canceled on Friday.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Thursday's National Weather Service computer outage has the attention of the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Parts of Democratic Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's home state of Maryland were not notified of a severe thunderstorm warning Thursday afternoon, due to a failure on the part of the weather service's computer system that sends out the warnings, the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang explained.
Heavy snow and ice has Booker and Menendez calling for more rock salt. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
New Jersey's senators are seeking federal help to alleviate a shortage of rock salt prompted by the abundance of ice and snow.
Specifically, Democrats Robert Menendez and Cory Booker want federal officials to waive the Jones Act, a 1920 Maritime law that bars certain foreign-flagged vessels from U.S. ports. A foreign vessel was transporting rock salt to Newark.
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