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In this photo from Monday, May 6, 2013, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., laughs as he and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, cross paths in the Russell Senate Office Building, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schumer of New York said in a statement he plans to introduce a resolution to rename that Senate office building after the war hero. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

McConnell calls for study of McCain tributes

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday he's putting together a "gang" of senators to recommend tributes to Sen. John McCain, and suggested ideas such as hanging a portrait in the reception room or attaching his name to the offices of the Armed Services Committee.

August 28, 2018
The FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Headquarters, across the street from the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Trump’s decision to rebuild FBI HQ will cost more money: IG report

Keeping the FBI's headquarters in downtown Washington will actually cost the government more than moving it to a suburban location, an inspector general concluded in a report Monday that also dings the Trump administration for appearing to mislead Congress.

August 27, 2018
Dozens of people lined Interstate 17 as they waited for the procession with the hearse carrying the late Arizona Sen. John McCain. (Associated Press)

John McCain tributes pour in; senator to lie in state

Sen. John McCain will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, congressional leaders announced Sunday, and governors ordered flags lowered across the nation as the country mourned the passing of a man all sides said transcended politics.

August 26, 2018
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., pauses while speaking to the GOPAC Fall Charter Meeting in Washington. McCain's family said in a statement on Aug. 24, 2018, the Arizona senator has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer. The 81-year-old McCain has been away from the Capitol since December. McCain's face bears a scar from skin cancer surgery in 2000. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

John McCain has died of brain cancer, Vietnam War hero and senator was 81

John McCain, veteran of the Vietnam war, more than 35 years in Washington, two presidential campaigns and countless personal and political revivals, died Saturday after a year-long bout with brain cancer, leaving a legislative legacy unmatched by any Republican of his generation.

August 25, 2018
In this July 9, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks as Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee, listens in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump made his second Supreme Court pick this week. Unless a justice dies, Trump has likely picked his last justice. Trump has speculated that he could appoint a majority of the nine-member court. But it has been three decades since a president has been able to name more than two justices to their life-tenured posts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Dems officially request delay in Kavanaugh hearing

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee officially requested a delay Friday in the planned confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, saying there are too many questions to move forward with the Sept. 4 planned start.

August 24, 2018
Members of the Center for Biological Diversity and other immigrant advocates protest outside 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court hearing challenging Trump's border wall Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. A federal appeals court will hear arguments by the state of California that the Trump administration overreached by waiving environmental reviews to speed construction of the president's prized border wall with Mexico. At issue Tuesday before a three-judge panel in Pasadena, California, is a 2005 law that gave the Homeland Security secretary broad authority to waive dozens of laws including the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Ariel Tu)

Green groups ask Supreme Court to stop Trump border wall

Environmental groups begged the Supreme Court on Thursday to step in and block construction on President Trump's border wall, saying he's circumventing dozens of laws designed to protect everything from wildlife to Native American graves.

August 23, 2018
Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr answers questions from the media after his speech at the 16th Annual Institute for Corporate Counsel in Los Angeles, Calif., March 13, 1997. Starr said on Thursday that is would be wrong to set time limits on independent counsel probes, since justice does not occur in neat chronological chunks. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Judge orders report on Starr Clinton probe media leaks released

A federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to quickly process and release a long-secret report detailing an investigation into whether anyone in the independent counsel's office in the 1990s leaked grand jury information to the press.

August 22, 2018