Clinton moves closer to nomination, sweeps in Virgin Islands

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a conversation on immigration at Culinary Arts Institute of Los Angeles Mission College on Saturday, June 4, 2016 in Sylmar, Calif. Congressman Xavier Becerra, Mayor Eric Garcetti and California's Senate President pro Tem Kevin de Leon along with two immigrant students Clara Kim and Italia Garcia took part in the conversation.

Election 2016: Seven seek to represent 1st Congressional District

There are seven candidates vying for the District 1 Congressional seat. The district includes all of Butte County and part of Glenn County, as well as all of Tehama, Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas and Nevada counties, and part of Placer County.

Colorado’s 2016 primary will be June 28

Colorado's 2016 primary ballot will feature six Republican challengers to Democratic Senator Michael Bennet , as well as a write-in primary challenger to Second Congressioal District Democrat Jared Polis. Other candidates will be vying for State Board of Education and CU Regent, but none in Boulder County.

a Marsha Blackburn on Hillary Clinton Revelations: – Identities of These Operatives at Risk’

Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, a key member of the Communications and Technology subcommittee, said that Hillary Clinton put the identities of American operatives at risk when she exposed their names on her private email server. "Hillary Clinton chose to set up a system that was going to put the identities of these operatives at risk.

Portman: It’s ‘wrong’ for Trump to talk about judge’s ethnicity

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sen. Rob Portman blasted Donald Trump for making personal, racially tinged verbal attacks against a federal judge. Trump has issued a litany of attacks on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing two class-action lawsuits against Trump University in San Diego.

Thousands of atheists gather in DC for Reason Rally

Thousands of atheists turned out Saturday on a muggy Washington day to take part in "Reason Rally," dedicated to boosting the political power of the growing number of non-religious Americans. "We are here, we are one, we are joined and we are celebrating our secular movement and we want more of this in our government," said rally attendee Doc Gregory, from Hagerstown, Maryland.

Beyond California, Sanders signaling post-primary future

In this June 1, 2016 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif. With the end of the primaries looming, Bernie Sanders is focused on victory in California yet offering signals about what he will do next to shape the party's platform at the convention, help down-ballot Democrats and defeat Donald Trump.

David Sarasohn: Fighting over lunch money

"I spent a lot of my time at my last school in Utah tracking down families who owed lunch money," he recalls, not exactly nostalgically. Welch has been able to think about education more lately because of a change in the school lunch rules in 2010, that allow schools with at least 40 percent of their students on food stamps or Medicaid to serve everybody free lunch.

Pelosi Not Yet Saying if She’s Endorsing Clinton or Sanders

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi isn't saying yet whether she endorses Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nominee, and has hinted she won't say who she supports before her home state's primary on Tuesday. "I will make an endorsement, and I'll decide when that is," the California Democrat told reporters in San Francisco in May, reports The Hill.

Train derailment causes fire in Oregon

A train derailment along the Oregon and Washington border sparked a raging fire that sent massive black plumes of smoke in the air on Friday afternoon. Eleven rail cars from a 96-car Union Pacific train carrying crude oil derailed, causing at least one train car to catch fire, Union Pacific representative Aaron Hunt said.

Zika highlights Puerto Rico’s fiscal woes

Puerto Rico is facing three converging crises demanding congressional attention: hundreds of cases of Zika, a $72 billion fiscal disaster and growing financial concerns about its Medicaid program. As lawmakers consider a $1.1 billion package to combat the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus that causes birth defects, the territory's long-standing problems with funding its joint federal-state health insurance program for the poor are coming to a head.

PHOTOS: June clouds moving through Siouxland

Many of you have been calling them wall clouds. Just so you know, this is just a leading edge of a line of storms and there have been no reports of funnels or severe weather with them as of 8:40 p.m. Congressman Steve King and State Senator Rick Bertrand took to the stage in Sioux City Friday night, just days ahead of primary election day.

Real World Alums Sean Duffy and Rachel Campos-Duffy Welcome Eighth Child

Duffy - a star of MTV's The Real World: Boston in 1997 - gushed about their newest addition writing, "Our family is so blessed! We are excited to welcome our eighth, Patrick Miguel Duffy, into the world! He is happy and healthy, and his siblings can't get enough of him!" "Meet Patrick Miguel Duffy! He was born Sunday at 1:03pm & weighed 5.13 lbs. I know he is baby #8, but this "new life" thing never gets old!!! And the kids can't get enough of him.

The DoD spent $170k on a study about why walking with coffee makes it spill

America's Department of Defense does. According to a recent report from U.S. Senator Jeff Flake , the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency allocated a $172,283 grant to fund a study conducted in 2012 at University of California at Santa Barbara that investigated why coffee spills while you walk.