by Erica Snow | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security needs to work hard to ensure there is no outside interference in the November midterm elections, while lambasting Russian interference in the 2016...
by Erica Snow | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
Jami Averwater called her father during the second week of law school with a dilemma — she couldn’t identify a single other Republican in her classroom. When she did acknowledge she was a Republican, she said, her classmates at Belmont University in Nashville...
by Erica Snow | Mar 14, 2018 | Education, Featured
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. –– As thousands of University of Virginia students walked out their classes on Wednesday to protest gun violence, especially in schools, Lecturer Jim Todd invited students to “please feel free” to get up and leave if they wanted to support the...
by Erica Snow | Feb 28, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump honored the late Rev. Billy Graham in the Capitol on Wednesday, calling the evangelist “an ambassador for Christ.” Graham is the fourth private citizen — but the first religious figure — to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda....
by Erica Snow | Feb 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Vice President Mike Pence boasted Thursday that the first year of the Trump administration was “the most consequential year” for conservatism at the annual CPAC conference, the largest gathering of conservatives in the country. Speaking in a...
by Erica Snow | Feb 7, 2018 | Cybersecurity, National Security
WASHINGTON – In response to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, 16 states asked the Department of Homeland Security to review the security of their voting systems, and five reviews have been completed, a DHS official said Wednesday. Sen. Kamala...
by Erica Snow | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — One day after President Donald Trump made overtures for bipartisanship, lawmakers expressed strong disapproval for his first State of the Union address, with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi ridiculing Trump’s “lame, puny” infrastructure plan. Trump...
by Erica Snow | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured, Politics, SOTU2018
WASHINGTON — Although President Donald Trump called for unity and bipartisanship in his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers generally saved their applause and lambasted what they saw as a hypocritical message. During the speech...
by Erica Snow | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called Wednesday for a U.S. policy aimed at eliminating North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. Cruz denounced any appeasement strategies, saying instead American leaders must show resolve in an “incremental and deliberate”...
by Erica Snow | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON—The number of anti-Muslim hate groups and crimes in the United States have increased dramatically in recent years, experts told reporters in a conference call. Organized by legal and educational group Muslim Advocates, the call highlighted the one-year...
by Erica Snow | Jan 16, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — After the Senate bipartisan effort to protect “dreamers” from deportation became mired in accusations of racist remarks by the president, three House members said Tuesday they have a solution that would extend protections to the 700,000 young immigrants...
by Erica Snow | Jan 12, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin predicted Friday that Congress will pass a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown Jan. 19 when the current funding legislation expires. He also told the Economic Club of Washington that the recently...
