by Martha Castro | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON— Former government terrorism experts say stricter oversight of federal agencies is needed to ensure anti-terrorism surveillance and monitoring don’t violate people’s privacy and civil liberties in response to a Department of Homeland Security report...
by Martha Castro | Mar 5, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON— Families of American hostages in Iran on Thursday called on the House to approve a bill that would increase government assistance to Americans wrongfully detained abroad and impose sanctions on foreign officials responsible for the detainments. “Any...
by Martha Castro | Mar 4, 2020 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON—While some Democrats in Congress have criticized the Trump administration’s program requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for a ruling on their claims, some experts say lawmakers should attempt to block funds for the program and require more oversight....
by Martha Castro | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is destroying sacred indigenous sites while federal agencies fail to properly consult tribes, experts on indigenous rights and tribal members told a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday. “For us, [the...
by Martha Castro | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Trump administration should impose sanctions on Egyptian officials to prevent the deaths of at least four American citizens detained in Egypt, said human rights activists and members of Congress. Mustafa Kassem, an American citizen, died in an Egyptian...
by Martha Castro | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON— The use of artificial intelligence to determine the need for pretrial detention and predict the risks of ex-felons committing more crimes doesn’t work because the underlying data can be inaccurate or biased, experts on justice reform said Wednesday. “We...
by Martha Castro | Feb 13, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Despite U.S. programs aimed at helping Mexico fight organized crime, the country is still plagued by a soaring homicide rate and there are few signs that conditions are improving, members of a House subcommittee said Thursday. “We have put so much money...
by Martha Castro | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON— Experts on disease control said on Wednesday that quarantines and travel bans on China are not enough to control the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and said the U.S. should provide more assistance to China and collaborate with other nations. “We don’t have a...
by Martha Castro | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, National Security, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump emphasized U.S. foreign relations in Latin America and the Middle East on Tuesday in his State of the Union speech, but failed to mention any concerns about Russia and North Korea. “In general, it’s been a pretty light speech on...
by Martha Castro | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON— For a second day, senators Thursday continued their lines of questioning to the impeachment legal teams to further their party’s arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Republicans and Democrats approached the question period...
by Martha Castro | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House impeachment managers laid the groundwork for the case against President Donald Trump Wednesday, emphasizing that the president’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine threatened U.S. security. On the second day of the Senate impeachment...
by Martha Castro | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— Several Democratic and Republican members of Congress on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on those responsible for the death of Mustafa Kassem, an American citizen who died Monday in an Egyptian prison after being detained in...
