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 Catherine Kim | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –– Though South and North Korean athletes’ joint march during the Pyeongchang Olympics’ opening ceremony could symbolize a warming relationship, North Korea also may be taking advantage of the situation to expand its nuclear weapons program under the radar,...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 18, 2018 | Energy, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Better access to government resources and federal contracts is crucial for small businesses, members of the House Small Business subcommittee said at a hearing on Thursday. Members met to discuss resources available to small businesses through the...
by Libby Berry | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion advocate Stephanie Gray on Thursday kicked off the annual anti-abortion demonstrations by March for Life ahead of the Jan. 22 anniversary of Roe v. Wade by telling the conference that a pregnant woman’s circumstances – poverty, rape, youth –...
by Renzo Downey | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders Wednesday presented former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest distinction awarded by Congress. President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader...
by Mila Jasper | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees Wednesday tried to look beyond North Korea’s nuclear risks and investigate the state of chemical, biological and conventional weapons programs in the “rogue” nation. “We need to take stock of what we do and...
by Anna Laffrey | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Americans living in rural areas may be forced to leave because of inadequate access to health care, North Dakota Sen. Heidkamp said Wednesday at the rollout of a new study that recommended telemedicine and doctor training programs to increase access to...
by Caroline Vakil | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – A group of university presidents united with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called on Congress Wednesday to pass a bill to protect “dreamers” from imminent deportation with the expiration of temporary visas provided by the Obama...
by Rachel Frazin | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube officials disagreed Wednesday with a foreign policy expert who told a Senate Committee that the social platforms take too long to identify extremist and terrorist content. Testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Republican Sen. Jeff Flake on Wednesday compared President Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin over his use of the phrase “enemy of the people” to describe journalists who write negative stories about his administration. Flake also condemned the...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Jan 17, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion could be contributing to the opioid epidemic because its low co-payments mean Medicaid recipients can re-sell the drugs for a profit, a report released Wednesday from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security...
by Paola de Varona & Rachel Frazin | Jan 16, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of “dreamers” and supporters swarmed a Senate office building Tuesday, blocking the doors to a number of the senators’ offices and occupying others as the chanted “Dream Act now” and demanded that Congress pass legislation this week to let them...
