by Renzo Downey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The lines between terrorists and organized crime groups have become increasingly blurred, but both are national security threats, members of the House Financial Services Committee said Tuesday. In a memorandum, the committee said that terrorist...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 15, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON–White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders doubled down Thursday on President Donald Trump’s claim this week that the U.S. has a trade deficit with Canada. In an audio file obtained by the Washington Post, Trump told fundraiser attendees Wednesday...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 14, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that he will oppose the nominations of Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State and Gina Haspel to CIA Director, saying he could not vote for nominees that still support the Iraq War or have ties to enhanced interrogation. The...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Changes made to the Freedom of Information Act in 2016 to make government documents more accessible have still not been fully implemented by most agencies surveyed, according to a Government Accountability Office audit released Tuesday. The GAO, the...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Once the most prosperous country in Latin America, Venezuela now has the worst hyperinflation in the world, and the resulting exodus of its citizens may produce more refugees than the Syrian conflict, according to some experts. Venezuela is experiencing...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 7, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Iran as the greatest threat to Israel and peace in the Middle East during his U.S. visit Wednesday. “You should not enable this aggressive regime out to conquer the Middle East, out to impose its Shiite...
by Renzo Downey | Feb 27, 2018 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Congress needs to stop stalling and take action to ensure the rising number of near misses by planes and the dangers of unregulated drones in commercial air space are addressed, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee...
by Renzo Downey | Feb 21, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON—The most pressing need in the Venezuela economic and political problems is providing humanitarian aid, Colombia’s ambassador to the U.S. said on Wednesday. Hyperinflation that has escalated since the 2013 election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has...
by Renzo Downey | Feb 7, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON–Prominent opponents of President Donald Trump debated Wednesday whether the U.S. president has damaged American democratic institutions during a panel at the center-left Brookings Institution. David Frum has been among the most vociferous...
by Renzo Downey | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— Recent military moves by Turkey and the United States in Syria have strained the long-standing relationship between the allies, regional experts at a Turkish Heritage Organization panel said Wednesday. Earlier this month, Turkey began an offensive to push...
by Renzo Downey | Jan 31, 2018 | National Security, SOTU2018
WASHINGTON – Despite reports by the FBI and CIA of Russian interference in the 2016 election, concerns that the foreign meddling will continue in the 2018 midterm elections and private security breaches in the last year, President Donald Trump did not mention...
by Renzo Downey | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON—Rail transportation and other mass transit are particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks, yet President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the surface transportation security budget in half, a member of a Senate subcommittee...
