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Don Blankenship listens to arguments in the West Virginia Supreme Court Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. The state Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a bid by former coal CEO Blankenship to get his name on the ballot in November’s U.S. Senate race in West Virginia. (Chris Dorst/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

W.Va. ousts GOP spoiler Blankenship from Senate race

West Virginia's Supreme Court kicked a potential spoiler candidate off the ballot Wednesday in the state's critical Senate race, ruling that he lost the GOP primary and can't now run under another party's banner.

August 29, 2018
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