by Alex Lederman | Feb 3, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Members of the Freedom Caucus urged other Republican lawmakers Wednesday not to negotiate with Democrats, or play games on a budget deal. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said at the Heritage Action Conservative Policy Summit that Republicans must break the...
by Alex Lederman | Feb 2, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The United States must not reduce its commitment to Afghanistan in the wake of a difficult year, Gen. John Campbell, the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee. “Afghanistan is at an...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 28, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Department of Health and Human Services suffers from serious systemic failures in protecting “unaccompanied alien children” from human trafficking, a Senate investigation says. “It’s intolerable that human trafficking, really modern day slavery,...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 27, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Russia should collaborate with the United States in upcoming United Nations negotiations to help resolve the Syrian crisis and present united opposition to the Islamic State, a member of a Russian research team said Wednesday. “Without a political...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 20, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices questioned lawyers Wednesday about whether tribal sovereignty over Indian reservations can be lost to non-Indian settlements in a case that could affect the territorial boundaries of Indian reservations and tribes’ rights to...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 20, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard a case Wednesday that could affect the territorial boundaries of Indian reservations and tribes’ rights to jurisdiction over that land. At issue is whether those settlements are ruled by the tribes or by federal and state...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 13, 2016 | SOTU2018
Alex Lederman sat down with Illinois Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowski and Cheri Bustos following President Obama’s State of the Union to hear their thoughts on his address. Schakowski — Evanston’s congresswoman — said Obama’s “vision...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 13, 2016 | SOTU2018, State of the Union
Our Alex Lederman sat down with Illinois Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowski and Cheri Bustos after the State of the Union to hear their thoughts on President Obama’s address. Schakowski — Evanston’s congresswoman since 1999 — said...
