by Samanta Habashy | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Three days before Arab America’s Empowerment Summit, co-founders Warren and Amal David received a shocking setback: their venue, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando, abruptly canceled, citing security threats. Devastated, the Davids scrambled to...
by Samanta Habashy | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — Five days after discovering their 16-year-old son Daniel Puerta unresponsive in bed, Jaime Puerta and his wife decided to discontinue life support as they stood beside him in the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital. Puerta kissed his son’s nose one last time....
by Samanta Habashy | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Despite the Trump administration’s threats to withhold funding, four Democratic mayors defended their cities’ sanctuary policies before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, New York City Mayor Eric Adams,...
by Samanta Habashy | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday on which factors courts can consider when revoking supervised release for criminal defendants when not all possible factors are explicitly listed under federal law. Supervised release is when someone follows...
by Samanta Habashy | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to tackle the fentanyl epidemic and the persistently high opioid-related U.S. death rate as the Trump administration introduced trade measures targeting illegal drug trafficking networks in Mexico, Canada and...
by Samanta Habashy | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official and outspoken critic of the intelligence community, about his vision for the FBI as its next director of the Bureau of Investigation. Unlike other confirmation...
by Samanta Habashy | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – On the 15th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and one day after President Trump’s inauguration, House Democrats made one thing certain: money determines politics, not the other way around. “One of...
by Samanta Habashy | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Supporters of the Laken Riley Act believe it would make Americans safer by detaining undocumented immigrants charged with crimes. But immigration experts cautioned that the legislation could have many unintended consequences including overburdening law...
