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From left, former Northwestern University football quarterback Kain Colter, Ramogi Huma, founder and President of the National College Players Association and Tim Waters, Political Director of the United Steel Workers, arrive on Capitol Hill in Wednesday, April, 2, 2014. Members of a group seeking to unionize college athletes are looking for allies on Capitol Hill as they brace for an appeal of a ruling that said full scholarship athletes at Northwestern University are employees who have the right to form a union. Former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter _ the face of a movement to give college athletes the right to unionize _ and Ramogi Huma, the founder and president of the National College Players Association, scheduled meetings Wednesday with lawmakers. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Northwestern athletes make their case for unionization to Congress

By Kimberly Hefling and Tom Raum - Associated Press

Congress still failing but improving on church-state issues, advocates say

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

General Motors CEO Mary Barra pauses as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. The committee is looking for answers from Barra about safety defects and mishandled recall of 2.6 million small cars with a faulty ignition switch that's been linked to 13 deaths and dozen of crashes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

New CEO Barra faces tough task in shedding old GM

By TOM KRISHER and MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

** FILE ** This Oct. 9, 2005, file photo shows U2's Bono, right, and guitarist The Edge, left, posing with photographer Anton Corbijn in New York, under a portrait of the band from the Joshua Tree album cover. The Library of Congress announces the sound recordings it has selected for long-term preservation in the National Recording Registry Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, File)

U2, Linda Ronstadt among 25 albums to be preserved

By Brett Zongker - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 8, 2013 file photo shows Cornell Woolridge of Windsor Mill, Md., takes part in a demonstration outside the Supreme Court in Washington as the court heard arguments on campaign finance. The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees. The justices said in a 5-4 vote that Americans have a right to give the legal maximum to candidates for Congress and president, as well as to parties and PACs, without worrying that they will violate the law when they bump up against a limit on all contributions, set at $123,200 for 2013 and 2014. That includes a separate $48,600 cap on contributions to candidates. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

High court loosens reins on big campaign donors

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on domestic spying by Mark Weber/Tribune Content Agency

NAPOLITANO: What if secrecy, NSA trump the Constitution?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

In this March 12, 2014 photo Nebraska Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse, the president of Midland University, campaigns in Elmwood, Neb. Nebraska, home of nice-guy politics, is a new front in the bitter national struggle inside the Republican Party between established leaders determined to maintain control and right-wing insurgents trying to change the party’s direction. Tea party groups are endorsing Sasse and party powerbrokers including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies are quietly backing his opponent, Shane Osborn, and steering the majority leader’s donors his way. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Nebraska is new front in battle for control of GOP

By THOMAS BEAUMONT - Associated Press

A statue of President George Washington is seen in the foreground at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Balanced budget convention gains steam as congressman calls for official evaluation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Williama Bozeman was stunned was stunned when the government's central bank in 2017 went to war with him "out of nowhere" by filing a federal lawsuit and two challenges to his patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (Associated Press/File)

SAUER: Legislation that would overreact to ‘patent trolls’

By Charles Sauer

Immigration rights activists, right, protest as Customs and Border Patrol agents stand at the port of entry after Cardinal Sean O'Malley, leader of the Boston Archdiocese, led mass, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz. A delegation of Roman Catholic leaders celebrated Mass along the U.S.-Mexico border to raise awareness about immigration and to pray for policy changes. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Bishops celebrate Mass along Mexico border

By BRIAN SKOLOFF - Associated Press

Cherie Sharkey, left, weeps for her son Michael Sharkey who died in his used 2006 Chevy Cobalt in Dresden, NY, as she walks with Laura Christian, of Harwood, Md., birth mother of Amber Marie Rose, the first reported victim of the General Motors safety defect, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, to represent their children at a news conference. The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will look for answers today from GM CEO Mary Barra about a faulty ignition switch and mishandled recall of 2.6 million cars that’s been linked to 13 deaths and dozens of crashes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

13 GM traffic deaths are tied to a 57-cent part

By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press

An applicant, second from right, is given assistance during a health care enrollment event at the Bay Area Rescue Mission, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Richmond, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Party ID is No. 1 factor in how Americans view Obamacare: Gallup poll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Imposed minimum wage hikes hurt economies in American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 24, 2014, former U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark., speaks at a rally at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Mike Ross is criticizing Republican rival Hutchinson for his role prosecuting the impeachment case against former President Bill Clinton. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Arkansas governor hopefuls target each other’s DC ties

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

**FILE** Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, answers constituents' questions during a listening session at the Snap-on Headquarters in Kenosha, Wis., on March 20, 2014. (Associated Press/Kenosha News, Kevin Poirier)

Paul Ryan’s final federal budget cuts $5 trillion, reaches balance in 2024

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Obama signs bill temporarily fixing Medicare fees

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

Congress to pass aid Ukraine, sanction Russia

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius visited a call center at United Way of Greater Austin Friday, March 28, 2014, in Austin, Texas, to highlight local efforts to enroll consumers in affordable health coverage, just three days before the March 31 enrollment deadline. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Ralph Barrera)

EDITORIAL: The Obamacare exchange problem

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Hagel acts to improve POW-MIA accounting effort

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press