by Paola de Varona | Mar 15, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — As lawmakers hammer out a 2018 federal budget, women’s health and family planning is proving to be a contentious issue, but the fight is not limited to Capitol Hill. Last month, Planned Parenthood and several local governments and allied health care...
by Catherine Kim | Mar 15, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –– Conor Lamb’s surprising win in a Pennsylvania special election for a House seat may be a sign that the key to success for Democrats running in red districts is distancing themselves from the national party. Lamb won against Republican Rick Saccone in a...
by Rachel Frazin & Kristina Karisch | Mar 15, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — One month after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland left 17 dead and more injured, Florida’s senators presented the Senate Judiciary Committee with opposing solutions for gun violence in school. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat,...
by Paola de Varona | Mar 14, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students from area schools walked out of their campuses in droves Wednesday morning to demand action on gun violence, some traveling to downtown Washington to protest outside of the White House and the Capitol. Combining a solemn...
by Stavros Agorakis & Mila Jasper | Mar 14, 2018 | Education, Featured
SOUTH RIDING, Va. — Noon time at Freedom High School usually means the beginning of lunch in the cafeteria. But at the lunch bell Wednesday, dozens of students spilled out onto the track instead, walking silently for 17 minutes in the bitter cold to commemorate the...
by Catherine Kim & Erica Snow | Mar 14, 2018 | Education, Featured
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. –– As thousands of University of Virginia students walked out their classes on Wednesday to protest gun violence, especially in schools, Lecturer Jim Todd invited students to “please feel free” to get up and leave if they wanted to support the...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 14, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that he will oppose the nominations of Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State and Gina Haspel to CIA Director, saying he could not vote for nominees that still support the Iraq War or have ties to enhanced interrogation. The...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
In a western Pennsylvania district that President Donald Trump won by 19 points, experts says there’s a good chance that Democratic women, and by some GOP female voters, could turn out in large enough numbers to boost Democrat Conor Lamb to a seat in Congress in...
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 Priyanka Godbole | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Action, accountability and training starting at top leadership levels are crucial first steps toward combating sexual harassment and creating safe and fair newsrooms, two former journalists who founded Press Forward said Tuesday. Launched in...
by Paola de Varona | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Less than a week after Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson defended his push to remove anti-discrimination language from the HUD mission statement, the National Low Income House Coalition released a report Tuesday showing the shortage of...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb are facing off Tuesday to represent Pennsylvania’s 18th district, a place where no Democrats even bothered to run in the last two cycles and President Trump won by 20 points in 2016. Polls show the two...
