by Henry Erlandson | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Pablo Picasso once described an artist as “a political being constantly alert to the horrifying, passionate or pleasing events in the world, shaping himself completely in their image.” Picasso’s definition of an artist may hold true, but artists today...
by Henry Erlandson | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON — Holding tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon accountable for how they collect and story users’ data as well as how they dominate the industry should be done through oversight by federal agencies rather than sweeping data privacy laws like those...
by Henry Erlandson | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — The United States must prioritize its international partnerships and harness the private sector to maintain its position as the global leader in space, legislators said Wednesday. Several senators expressed a growing concern at a Committee on Commerce,...
by Henry Erlandson | Mar 12, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Students across the country designed cities that will meet the rising threat of natural disasters while maintaining innovative solutions in transportation, waste management and electrical power. The designs were developed for the annual Future City...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – In the months after the Trump administration formally ended its family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, more than 200 new immigrant children were separated from their families and the number previously separated was much larger than reported....
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, told a House committee Wednesday that he committed several federal crimes at the direction of the president, admitted lying in the past but swore that he is neither a liar nor a “bad man.”...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 21, 2019 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – An estimated half billion television viewers worldwide witnessed Neil Armstrong take mankind’s first steps on the moon in July 1969, an event that effectively ended the Cold War space race and spurred five ensuing NASA missions to the moon. Fifty years...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 14, 2019 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — The United States will soon have to grapple with its rapidly decreasing working-age population, but experts are torn about whether immigration is the cause or the remedy for the decline. Steven Camarota, the director of research for for the...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Many American seniors have little or no retirement savings according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. That was the focus of a bipartisan hearing where Senators urged action in Congress to relieve the financial stress for...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got one of his biggest rounds of applause during his State of the Union address Tuesday night when he noted that Congress now has a record-high number of elected women, but it wasn’t lost on the crowd that when the women rose to...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 31, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Abortion foes Thursday condemned recent legislative moves across the country loosening restrictions on late-term abortions. Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, condemned Democratic lawmakers who are passing abortion rights...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee hammered Pentagon officials Tuesday on the cost of having nearly 6,000 troops on the US-Mexico border, both in terms of dollars spent and training activities that are disrupted by irregular deployment...
