by Zamone "Z" Perez | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — When Matthew Petersen left his role as a commissioner in the Federal Election Commission at the end of August, the campaign finance oversight agency no longer had a quorum four commissioners — leaving it unable to meet. The Senate Republicans finally...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Mar 10, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON —Sen. Elizabeth Warren, husband and dog Bailey by her side, ended her campaign to be the first female president of the United States as it began — at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Warren used her progressivism, populism and, most essential to her...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Mar 2, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — As Gayle Tucker left her polling place at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Columbia, she asked a question that sums Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s poor performance in the “First in the South” primary on Saturday and her struggle to gain...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Mar 2, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — With South Carolinians providing former Vice President Joe Biden a “firewall” to slow Sen. Bernie Sanders’ momentum, candidates are looking to capitalize on the delegate-rich states voting on Super Tuesday – and party officials say the...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Mar 1, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Even before attending a ministers’ breakfast in Charleston on Wednesday, the faint outline of an ash cross could be seen on Joe Biden’s forehead. Christians have used this sign for millennia to symbolize Ash Wednesday, the first day of...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Feb 27, 2020 | Campaign 2020
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — John Legend told the crowd at a Wednesday rally for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren that “Elizabeth listens to us” before singing classics such as “All of Me” and “Redemption Song.” Warren spoke to the approximately 1,400...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—The Census Bureau has not done enough to quell fears that responses to the nationwide survey will be used against people, especially undocumented immigrants and marginalized communities, faith leaders said on Tuesday at a summit where they were asked to...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Feb 14, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics, Topics
ARLINGTON VA. — In her first public event after placing a distant fourth in the New Hampshire primary, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her campaign remain on course in messaging at a town hall in Arlington, Va., while also laying out a strategy for the...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called for the House to pass a bill designated to strengthen workers’ rights to unionize and collectively bargain. Pelosi was joined at the news conference before Thursday’s scheduled House vote by union members and...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — Speaking at her daughter’s high school in East Lansing, Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, saying Trump’s claims of a strong economy don’t jibe with wage...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON— For a second day, senators Thursday continued their lines of questioning to the impeachment legal teams to further their party’s arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Republicans and Democrats approached the question period...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds before midnight, the closest the clock has inched to midnight and a signal of “a very dangerous world,” officials of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said on Thursday. The world’s proximity to Doomsday moved...
