Brian Hughes

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Beltway Confidential

For White House, it’s background checks or bust

Brian Hughes · March 28, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

It’s official: Obama’s budget coming April 10

Brian Hughes · March 28, 2013 4:00 am

Katerina Rodgaard, center, a Maryland dance instructor who knew one of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings, accompanied by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and others, who according to the White House, law enforcement officials, victims of gun violence, and others, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 28, 2013, where Obama urged Congress to take action on measures to protect children from gun violence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: ‘Shame on us’ if Congress fails to restrict guns

Brian Hughes · March 28, 2013 4:00 am

An American flag waves in the breeze behind razor-wire and fences within the compound of Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

White House insists President Obama ‘remains committed’ to closing Gitmo

Brian Hughes · March 27, 2013 4:00 am

Megan McGraw, 24, of Dunmore, Pa. left, and Kristi Greider, 24, of Scranton, Pa. take part during a Scranton Candlelight Vigil for Marriage Equality in advance of the Supreme Court DOMA decision held on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at the Lackawanna County Courthouse Square in downtown Scranton, Pa. (AP Photo/The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys)

White House expects political gains from gay-marriage focus

Brian Hughes · March 26, 2013 4:00 am

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President Obama poses with players and coaches from the Los Angeles Galaxy at the White House. Obama invited the team to Washington to celebrate its MLS Cup victory.

President Obama honors a pair of Los Angeles champions in Kings and Galaxy

Brian Hughes · March 26, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Obama to name first female Secret Service director

Brian Hughes · March 26, 2013 4:00 am

Obama calls for Palestine to resume peace talks, drop settlement preconditions

Beltway Confidential

Obama calls for Palestine to resume peace talks, drop settlement preconditions

Brian Hughes · March 21, 2013 4:00 am

This film image released by A24 Films shows James Franco in a scene from "Spring Breakers." (AP Photo/A24 Films, Michael Muller)

‘Spring Breakers’: One messy, beautiful nightmare

Brian Hughes · March 21, 2013 4:00 am

Vice President Joe Biden, left, accompanied by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaks in New York's City Hall Blue Room, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Relatives of shooting victims from Newtown, Conn., stood with Bloomberg and Biden as they spoke in favor of an assault weapons ban. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Vice President Biden pushes assault weapons ban despite Democrats’ opposition

Brian Hughes · March 21, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama

Beltway Confidential

Obama takes appeal for peace compromise to Israeli people

Brian Hughes · March 21, 2013 4:00 am

Obama’s swing-state-heavy Final Four

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s swing-state-heavy Final Four

Brian Hughes · March 20, 2013 4:00 am