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Protesters arrested at Capitol after demanding witnesses be admitted to impeachment trial

Protesters arrested at Capitol after demanding witnesses be admitted to impeachment trial

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters swarmed the Capitol steps Wednesday demanding the Senate consider witnesses and documents in the ongoing impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Leaks of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s upcoming book Sunday...
Trump lawyer warns impeachment bar set too low as president’s team concludes arguments

Trump lawyer warns impeachment bar set too low as president’s team concludes arguments

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded its opening statement Tuesday, warning senators of undermining the Constitution and urging them to acquit the president. “Reject these articles of impeachment for our country and for the American...
Schumer continues push for witnesses in Senate trial

Schumer continues push for witnesses in Senate trial

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday continued to publicly urge Republicans to join Democrats in voting to subpoena witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying new revelations should force the GOP lawmakers to get top...
Transgender women renew push for Equal Rights Amendment

Transgender women renew push for Equal Rights Amendment

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Near freezing temperatures, rain and snow failed to prevent thousands of protesters from gathering in Freedom Plaza on Saturday morning and in several other locations across the country for the fourth annual Women’s March. On the first full day of...
SENATE APPROVES IMPEACHMENT TRIAL RULES AFTER MARATHON SESSION

SENATE APPROVES IMPEACHMENT TRIAL RULES AFTER MARATHON SESSION

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics

WASHINGTON – Eleven times Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rose before Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday and Wednesday morning to introduce amendments to allow more evidence in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Each time, those amendments...
U.S. Lessons Learned In Afghanistan: Disincentives to Tell Truth

U.S. Lessons Learned In Afghanistan: Disincentives to Tell Truth

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 15, 2020 | National Security

WASHINGTON – The United States has spent $900 billion on the war in Afghanistan, $132 billion for reconstruction of the Afghan government, but much of the reconstruction money was wasted, stolen or failed to address the problems it was meant to fix, the Special...
Border Security, Facilitation and Operations Subcommittee demand DHS take action on child deaths in custody

Border Security, Facilitation and Operations Subcommittee demand DHS take action on child deaths in custody

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 14, 2020 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON –Top Department of Homeland Security officials told a congressional hearing Tuesday that the agency has made significant progress in ensuring that children sent to border detention centers get health care and has administered thousands of vaccinations to...
Trump-Iran policy panned as ‘Naïveté on Steroids’: Global oil and U.S. influence at stake

Trump-Iran policy panned as ‘Naïveté on Steroids’: Global oil and U.S. influence at stake

by Angelina Campanile | Jan 9, 2020 | National Security

WASHINGTON – A continuing U.S. military presence in Iraq is vital to U.S. interests, and President Donald Trump’s insistence that America doesn’t need Middle East oil is misguided, the head of the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations said Thursday. “The thought of...
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