by Caroline Vakil | Jan 26, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s annual budget proposal for fiscal 2019 is scheduled to be released Feb. 12 even as Congress tries to approve a spending bill for this year that would continue to fund the government past the current short-term spending...
by Stavros Agorakis | Jan 25, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Serving students without college degrees is among the key challenges in higher education, said members of the Senate panel during a hearing Thursday. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. said Congress needs to create an environment that fosters more innovation...
by Eric Miller | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The consequences of a nuclear armed North Korea could be disastrous, warned former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, with one calling it the most “urgent” threat facing the United States. Testifying before the Senate Armed...
by Rachel Frazin | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is “unprepared to police the mail arriving in our country” that contains illegal drugs, especially opioids, the head of a Senate homeland security investigations subcommittee said Thursday. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said the...
by Maggie Harden & Jakob Lazzaro | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The world is the closest to significant global catastrophe it’s ever been, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday as it moved the symbolic “Doomsday Clock” thirty seconds closer to midnight. The scientists primarily cited nuclear threats and...
by Catherine Kim | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –– The false missile alarm in Hawaii earlier this month was “inexcusable” and raises serious issues regarding emergency alert systems, the chairman of the Senate commerce committee said Thursday as Hawaii’s senator demanded such messages get Pentagon review...
by Erica Snow | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called Wednesday for a U.S. policy aimed at eliminating North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. Cruz denounced any appeasement strategies, saying instead American leaders must show resolve in an “incremental and deliberate”...
by Mila Jasper | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced Wednesday that the Trump administration will release an immigration package for Congress on Monday that would provide a solution for “dreamers,” secure the southern U.S. border and end some programs that...
by Anna Laffrey | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Proposed legislation to regulate driverless cars, which would set safety and testing guidelines, will also require public education programs, senators and auto experts said at a committee hearing Wednesday. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and...
by Libby Berry | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The mission of the Congressional Budget Office would be “degraded” if the funding arrangement that ended the recent government shutdown remains in force for the rest of the year, CBO Director Keith Hall testified Wednesday. Speaking at a Senate oversight...
by Maggie Harden | Jan 24, 2018 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The recently passed federal tax bill is one of the most significant tax code rewrites in U.S. history, according to Laura Wheeler, a senior fiscal researcher at Georgia State University. Wheeler and four other tax experts, speaking Wednesday at the Urban...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — American senior citizens are lacking the crucial information they need to navigate crucial healthcare benefits, experts said at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “People’s lives are changing, and they need to be educated or they will fall through the...
