by Syd Stone | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee members on Tuesday called for the Violence Against Women Act to be reauthorized but with several additions to strengthen protections for diverse communities and speed up analyses of DNA. The original 1994 law provided federal...
by Syd Stone | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
Jami Averwater called her father during the second week of law school with a dilemma — she couldn’t identify a single other Republican in her classroom. When she did acknowledge she was a Republican, she said, her classmates at Belmont University in Nashville...
by Syd Stone | Mar 13, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON —Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s policies are an “unprecedented” attack on public lands and the environment, the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said Tuesday. Zinke explained to the committee President Donald Trump’s 2019...
by Syd Stone | Feb 28, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump honored the late Rev. Billy Graham in the Capitol on Wednesday, calling the evangelist “an ambassador for Christ.” Graham is the fourth private citizen — but the first religious figure — to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda....
by Syd Stone | Feb 21, 2018 | Education
WASHINGTON — Elementary and high school curricula must include civics education now more than ever, former Florida governor Bob Graham said referencing statistics proving historically low political engagement among young people. “This is a critically important issue,”...
by Syd Stone | Feb 15, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Republicans said at a hearing on Thursday that the environmental damage caused by an unsecured border endangers public lands and natural resources. A National Park Service report last year warned that illegal immigration and drug running have...
by Syd Stone | Feb 14, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence spoke out about the Rob Porter scandal on Wednesday, declaring that White House officials “could have handled this better.” “This administration has no tolerance for domestic violence,” Pence said in a...
by Syd Stone | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The budget deal being voted on Thursday includes a sharp increase from $1.4 to $6 billion to fight the opioid crisis, and the Senate health committee announced the same day that it will offer a bill to further address the epidemic by the end of March. ...
by Syd Stone | Jan 31, 2018 | Featured, Politics, SOTU2018
WASHINGTON — Facing political turmoil and historically low approval ratings, President Donald Trump stressed unity and bipartisanship in his first State of the Union address, appealing to Americans’ sense of civic duty and proposing new infrastructure projects across...
by Syd Stone | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON—Young immigrants known as “dreamers” expressed their disappointment with the Senate Democrats’ actions to end the government shutdown Tuesday. Several dozen activists from Make the Road Pennsylvania and “dreamers” who receive protection...
by Syd Stone | Jan 18, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Cleaning up the hazardous waste at Superfund sites is taking too long and the fact that some sites from the original 1980 list have not been fixed is “embarrassing,” a member of the House Subcommittee on Environment said Thursday during a hearing. The...
by Syd Stone | Jan 17, 2018 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is part of two recent landmark agreements to protect the Arctic and Antarctic oceans because of damage from climate change and melting ice, diplomats said Wednesday. The U.S., the European Union and eight countries bordering the Arctic concluded...
