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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2013, file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, accompanied by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y, enter a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to discuss Superstorm Sandy aid. Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a "not-so-fast" campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House the week of Jan. 14, 2013. Their complaint is that lots of that money actually will go toward recovery efforts for past disasters and other projects unrelated to the late-October storm. The measure bill includes $150 million for what the Commerce Department described as fisheries disasters in Alaska, Mississippi and the Northeast, and $50 million in subsidies for replanting trees on private land damaged by wildfires. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Conservatives chip away at $50b Sandy aid package

Associated Press · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

Virginia House panel rejects felons’ rights bill

Virginia House panel rejects felons’ rights bill

Associated Press · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

Live streaming video: Watch Obama’s last press conference of his first term

Live streaming video: Watch Obama’s last press conference of his first term

Associated Press · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

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Cyclist Lance Armstrong had an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday at an Austin, Texas, hotel in which he reportedly confessed to doping.

Lance Armstrong admits PED use to Oprah

Associated Press · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

Story with map: Presidential strut is now iconic inaugural moment

Story with map: Presidential strut is now iconic inaugural moment

Associated Press · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

Virginia House panel welcomes first openly gay judge

Virginia House panel welcomes first openly gay judge

Associated Press · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers questions from members of the media during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama deflects criticism about lack of diversity

Associated Press · January 14, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama arrives to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the Senate passed the debt ceiling legislation. Back in the summer of 2011, as a debt crisis loomed much like one does again today, Obama issued a clear threat to Republicans: Without an agreement to raise the nation's borrowing limit, older Americans might not get their Social Security checks. He wasn't the first to issue such a warning in the face of a debt fight between an administration and Congress. The federal government could run out of cash to pay all its bills in full as early as Feb. 15, according to one authoritative estimate, and congressional Republicans want significant spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Obama, forced to negotiate an increase in 2011, has vowed not to negotiate again. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Hitting the debt limit: What bills would be paid?

Associated Press · January 13, 2013 5:00 am

Donors not disclosed in Georgia’s annual Wild Hog event

Donors not disclosed in Georgia’s annual Wild Hog event

Associated Press · January 13, 2013 5:00 am

NRA says Congress will not pass weapons ban

Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press · January 13, 2013 5:00 am

House speaker William Howell, readies the gavel at the start of the session at the Capitol Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 in Richmond, Va. Legislators met for only a few moments before adjourning for the weekend. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

GOP walks gingerly around Virginia contraception proposals

Associated Press · January 13, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2009, file photo, Barack Obama, left, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts, not seen, as his wife Michelle, holds the Lincoln Bible and daughters Sasha, right and Malia, watch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Obama's second inauguration is shaping up as a high-energy celebration smaller than his first milestone swearing-in, yet still designed to mark his unprecedented role in American history with plenty of eye-catching glamour. A long list of celebrity performers will give the once-every-four years right of democratic passage the air of a star-studded concert, from the bunting-draped Capitol's west front of the Capitol, where Obama takes the oath Jan. 21, to the Washington Convention Center, which is expected to be packed with 40,000 ball-goers that evening. (AP Photo/Chuck Kennedy, Pool)

Questions and answers about upcoming inauguration

Associated Press · January 13, 2013 5:00 am