by Megan Lebowitz | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Senators Tuesday pressed Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s $2 billion proposal for border wall construction and also criticized the construction’s potential harm to tribal lands and...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 24, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
LAS VEGAS – More than 80 employees at Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino used their lunch break on Saturday to vote in Nevada’s Democratic caucus. State party officials use such examples as proof that the caucus system worked, but critics say too many voters still...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 24, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada caucuses had a starkly different demographic landscape from the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states largely bereft of racial and ethnic diversity. And while the result was the same – a third win for Bernie Sanders, this time the...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 23, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
LAS VEGAS–Bernie Sanders won the Nevada Democratic caucuses Saturday by making it a campaign priority and investing resources in the state for months, his third consecutive win in the early primary and caucus states. Sanders entered the contest after winning the...
by Joey Maya Safchik and Gregory Svirnovskiy | Feb 20, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Democrats must work to curtail the “entrepreneurship gap” at the Democratic debate in Las Vegas Wednesday, clashing with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on how to build business equity....
by Khadija Islow | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON— The United States must be the world leader in artificial intelligence to ensure the technological advances are underpinned by Western values, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios said Thursday. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, Kratsios said that...
by James Pollard | Feb 20, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg entered Wednesday night’s debate pitching the race as a two-person contest between himself and Sen. Bernie Sanders—and that of the two, the former New York City mayor is best equipped to defeat President...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Feb 20, 2020 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposed sweeping changes to school meal regulations, overturning key pieces of former first lady Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, worries public health experts who fear an increase in childhood obesity...
by Suzy Vazquez and Cassidy Wang | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –A federal judge sentenced Roger Stone, a friend of President Donald Trump, to 40 months in jail after he was convicted of impeding a congressional investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, despite Trump’s tweets suggesting the...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 20, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
LAS VEGAS—It didn’t take long Wednesday for Democrats to target the new face on the debate stage –former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. “I like to talk about who we’re running against, a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse faced lesbians,” Sen....
by Martha Castro | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Trump administration should impose sanctions on Egyptian officials to prevent the deaths of at least four American citizens detained in Egypt, said human rights activists and members of Congress. Mustafa Kassem, an American citizen, died in an Egyptian...
by Khadija Islow and James Pollard | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Highly rated businesses in black neighborhoods sustain revenue losses totaling about $3.9 billion and do not grow any faster than low-rated businesses, a study released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution and Gallup found. The study by Brookings’...
