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The FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Headquarters in Washington was built in 1974, and cannot handle all 11,000 employees. A new facility is planned. (Associated Press)
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A group of California police officers have stepped in to help a 12-year-old Girl Scout and her mother after they were robbed at gunpoint while selling cookies outside a grocery store Wednesday evening. The Union City Police Department posted a photo on Facebook Thursday showing the girl's mother being presented with a $1,000 check. (Union City Police Department)
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Self-styled hippie Kitty Morgan opened a store called Summer of Love less than a year after Ellicott City floods destroyed her former place of employment.
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FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011, file photo, Eric Rego stitches boots in the facility where LL Bean boots are assembled in Brunswick, Maine. L.L. Bean will freeze its pensions and offer an early retirement program in 2018 as it seeks to control growing expenses. Steve Smith, the Maine-based retailer's CEO, is making the announcement in a memo and in meetings with workers on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is greeted by employees as he arrives at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is greeted by employees as he arrives at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)
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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2016 file photo, The HealthCare.gov 2017 web site home page as seen in Washington. More than 12.2 million people have signed up for coverage nationwide this year under the Obama-era health care law as the new Trump administration and the GOP-led Congress remain committed to its repeal. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - This Dec. 3, 2014, file photo, shows the Anthem logo at the company's corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. A federal judge on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, rejected Anthem Inc.'s bid to buy rival health insurer Cigna Corp., saying the merger would likely lead to higher costs, less competition and diminished innovation. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the merger would significantly reduce competition in the already concentrated insurance market, particularly for large national employers. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2009 file photo, a pedestrian walks past the headquarters of the health insurer Cigna Corp. in in Philadelphia. A federal judge on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, rejected Anthem Inc.'s bid to buy rival health insurer Cigna Corp., saying the merger would likely lead to higher costs, less competition and diminished innovation. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the merger would significantly reduce competition in the already concentrated insurance market, particularly for large national employers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2011, file photo, Illinois state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, D-Chicago, poses in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois lawmaker wants to send a message to President Donald Trump by lifting prohibitions on state coverage of abortions. Feigenholtz has introduced legislation to lift the ban on state-employee health insurance or public-assistance payment for abortions. It is scheduled for an afternoon hearing Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, an Indian vendor who sells snacks and chewable tobacco reads a Gujarati language newspaper that has the headline "this time Trump Government" in Ahmadabad, India. The U.S. and India seem like a natural fit in the era of President Donald Trump: rambunctious democracies, led by populists, focused on economic growth and fighting radical Islam. It’s a budding partnership that could be set back by a nuts-and-bolts dispute over employment visas. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)
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Firefighters and police officers from Nebraska walk down the stairs following a news conference outside the State Capitol in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. They spoke up against a bill in the Legislature that would place new department employees in a cash balance pension plan rather than a traditional pension. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Steve LeClair, right, president of the Omaha firefighters association, and Sgt. John Wells, second right, head of the Omaha police union, are joined by firefighters and police officers from Nebraska during a news conference outside the State Capitol in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. They spoke up against a bill in the Legislature that would place new department employees in a cash balance pension plan rather than a traditional pension. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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Steve LeClair, right, president of the Omaha firefighters association, and Sgt. John Wells, center, head of the Omaha police union, are joined by firefighters and police officers from Nebraska during a news conference outside the State Capitol in Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. They spoke up against a bill in the Legislature that would place new department employees in a cash balance pension plan rather than a traditional pension. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad in Davis, Calif. Pike later lost his job, as did UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi. University of California, Berkeley police took a hands-off approach to protesters on the campus last week when violent rioters overtook a largely peaceful protest against a controversial speaker. But that response is being questioned as demonstrators become increasingly hostile and politics are more polarized. (Wayne Tilcock/The Davis Enterprise via AP, File)
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs a bill in his Capitol conference room in Little Rock on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, to cut income taxes on military retirement benefits as Sen. Jane English, center, looks on. The tax cut is intended to help promote economic development by attracting retirees to the state. Arkansas will raise taxes on unemployment benefits, soda, candy and digital downloads to pay for it. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)
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Microsoft Corp. is one of more than 125 American businesses that have banded together to register their disapproval of President Trump's extreme vetting policy, saying they fear they will lose out on workers. (Associated Press)
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"Vincent Gray... needs to slow the roll of this new hospital train. The only reason to build a new hospital from scratch or to renovate a former acute facility is because acute-care demand is not meeting health-care supply — and that is not the case in the District," says columnist Deborah Simmons. (Associated Press)
