by Joshua Irvine, Megan Lebowitz and James Pollard | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — In his third State of the Union address, President Donald Trump presented a positive vision of his administration’s first term while illustrating the depth of the partisan divide in Washington. “Three years ago, we launched the great American...
by Olivia Olander and Joey Maya Safchik | Feb 4, 2020 | Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — A sparse group of protesters hung around the street corners in front of the Capitol Tuesday to show their opposition to President Donald Trump as he delivered his third State of the Union address. In years past, larger groups met the president when...
by Sneha Dey | Feb 3, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
DES MOINES — On a conference call one week before the Iowa caucuses, the state Democratic Party accessibility director recommended Harry Olmstead, a 69-year-old with a physical disability, bring his own chair to the caucuses in response to his question about...
by Angelina Campanile | Feb 3, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
Northwestern University students ditched classes on Friday to squeeze into a minivan and drive 234 miles west from their suburban Chicago campus to North Liberty, Iowa – deciding that fulfilling their role in American democracy was more important than studying for...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – As Jewish people around the world commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the conversation about anti-Semitism continues on Capitol Hill. “It grieves and shocks me that anti-Semitism is rising again in Europe, the US...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The Senate voted 51-49 Friday night against allowing witnesses and documents in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, making it the only impeachment trial to not hear from witnesses. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said Friday morning she would vote...
by Martha Castro and 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 Medill News Service | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP: CONTINUED 3:36 p.m. Jan 30, 2020 By Martha Castro and Zamone Perez WASHINGTON— For a second day, Republican senators Thursday questioned lawyers for President Donald Trump to give them opportunities to rebut House...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Congress needs to get more aggressive in passing laws to reduce the rising number of phone scams against senior citizens, which cost seniors $38 million last year, top Social Security Administration officials said Wednesday. At the 25th hearing on the...
by Alex Moore | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — As senators got their first chance to question House managers and President Donald Trump’s lawyers Wednesday, Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, told reporters in the Capitol that Republican senators are rushing through the Senate...
by James Pollard | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats and Republicans attempted to carve up the other side’s opening arguments Wednesday in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on the first day they were allowed to ask questions. After listening to the House impeachment...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters swarmed the Capitol steps Wednesday demanding the Senate consider witnesses and documents in the ongoing impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Leaks of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s upcoming book Sunday...
