by Stephanie Haines | Feb 4, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan coalition of senators and congressmen urged President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, the fourth installment of an operation to channel oil from Canada to Nebraska, at a news conference Tuesday. The $7 billion project proposed...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 3, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Days before the opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics, tensions have risen between Moscow and insurgents in the North Caucasus, a region filled with instability, a panel of experts said Monday, heightening fears of a terrorist incident at the...
by Stephanie Haines | Jan 22, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A Senate bill that would impose more sanctions on Iran could make it more difficult to successfully negotiate a deal to limit the country’s nuclear enrichment program, a group of experts said Wednesday. On Monday the P5+1 countries — the five permanent...
by Stephanie Haines | Jan 15, 2014 | Business
WASHINGTON- About 60 people marched around the Union Station food court on Wednesday, protesting alleged wage violations in the pay of food service employees. But even before the demonstration got started, Good Jobs Nation, an organization that advocates for workers’...
by Stephanie Haines | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A workers’ rights group Wednesday filed a complaint with the Department of Labor challenging low pay of food court workers at Washington’s Union Station, then the workers and activists joined together for a protest at the famed railway station to push for...
by Stephanie Haines | Jan 8, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Senate homeland security committee focused Wednesday on John Roth’s integrity at his hearing for his nomination Department of Homeland Security inspector general, a post that has been vacant for nearly three years and been the subject of...
