by Sylvan Lane | Feb 4, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – A top official in the national drug czar’s office insisted Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s comments about the safety of marijuana usage do not reflect the White House policy on the legalization of the drug. Michael Botticelli, the deputy director of...
by Sylvan Lane | Feb 3, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – District of Columbia Circuit Judge Richard Leon said Monday he will decide within two weeks whether to dismiss claims that the National Security Agency’s PRISIM program violated the First and Fifth Amendments. Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 29, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON – On the fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, high-ranking congressional Democrats called Wednesday for Republicans to stop blocking reforms that would protect women in the workplace. “There is no reason on God’s green...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 28, 2014 | Politics
When President Barack Obama gives his fifth State of the Union address Tuesday night, he is likely to utter the word “jobs” a lot. A breakdown of Obama’s 50 most frequently used words in his past four speeches (excluding words such as...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 28, 2014 | Politics
Did your invitation to the State of the Union got lost in the mail? Our reporters are running around Capitol Hill capturing the best scenes and tweeting the choicest quotes on our Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter accounts. Keep track of it all right here.
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 22, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Motor vehicle accident fatalities increased in 2012 while state legislatures passed fewer traffic safety laws than in recent years, according to a report by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. The road safety advocacy group released its 11th annual...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 15, 2014 | Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of Burmese refugees flowed into the country between 2002 and 2011. However, this ethnic community is too small and new to get on the radar screens of many government and social agencies, and at this point lacks the economic and social...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 14, 2014 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON – Legislation to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 over two years will get a vote in the Senate in February, the chairman of the Senate labor committee said Tuesday. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, introduced the Fair Minimum Wage...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
Close to 150 protesters from various human and constitutional rights organizations called for President Barack Obama to make good on his promise of closing Guantanamo Bay on the 12th anniversary of the prison’s opening. The reasons were varied, but the message...
by Sylvan Lane | Jan 8, 2014 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON – On the 50th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., called the former president’s “big government” approach to the issue a failure and proposed ending all federal programs dedicated to fighting poverty, instead...
