by Heena Srivastava | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON –– Gail Sasse gave birth to her son, Joey, in late February, but she didn’t feel close to the baby until recently. Joey spent the first days of his life in the NICU after he began experiencing tremors — a symptom of neonatal abstinence syndrome. He...
by Heena Srivastava | Mar 12, 2019 | Featured, Politics, Topics
NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D – Mass., focused her rally Friday in Queens on Washington corruption and the monopolistic power of tech giants. But many of her supporters say their priority is income inequality. With a...
by Heena Srivastava | Mar 9, 2019 | Featured, Politics
NEW YORK— Hours after proposing a break-up of tech giants Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren told supporters in the Queens neighborhood known for pushing Amazon out that “tech giants think they rule the Earth.” In February, Amazon canceled...
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A House Judiciary subcommittee debated President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration Thursday — the first congressional hearing on the National Emergencies Act in more than 40 years. The hearing examined Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration, which...
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 21, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Roger Stone headed back to court Thursday after posting a threatening picture to Instagram of U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over the criminal case against Stone and previously handled the case of his Trump presidential...
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 14, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The House prepared to take up the Senate-passed spending and border security bill Thursday evening as President Donald Trump announced he would sign the measure and then declare a national emergency to fund his wall. The Senate overwhelmingly approved the...
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 12, 2019 | Featured, Living, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The pop-up kitchen Chefs for Feds closed its doors Feb. 1 after feeding furloughed workers throughout the 35-day partial government shutdown. The kitchen, café, and resource center remained open until furloughed workers received their first paychecks....
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s call for a wall to secure America’s southern border in his State of the Union address Tuesday night was no surprise to opponents. Jennifer Johnson, the policy director at the Southern Border Communities Coalition, said...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote set for Tuesday on recommending the Senate confirm Attorney General nominee William Barr because Democrats wanted to air fears that Barr would compromise the Mueller investigation. Such delays have...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 24, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday voted against President Donald Trump’s proposal to end the shutdown and build the border wall as well as a Democratic measure for short-term funding to reopen government while seeking a compromise on border security. The...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer announced Wednesday that the Senate will vote Thursday on the president’s weekend proposal for border wall funding and a three-year reprieve from deportation for thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 20, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of women’s rights activists flooded the streets of cities across the U.S. for the third annual Women’s March. In Washington, the marchers not only advocated for women’s rights but for an end to the partial...
