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...
by Angelina Campanile, Joshua Irvine, Megan Lebowitz and Evan Ochsner | Jan 29, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded its opening statement Tuesday, warning senators of undermining the Constitution and urging them to acquit the president. “Reject these articles of impeachment for our country and for the American...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The House Subcommittee on National Security Tuesday probed the Trump Administration’s actions in Afghanistan, where the United States is currently engaged in its longest-ever conflict. “Obviously we have not succeeded in keeping the bad guys out,”...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 28, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Controlled forest cutting and development of a public-private bank to fund infrastructure changes to respond to climate change were some of the fixes recommended by experts at a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on Tuesday. Anthony Davis,...
by Olivia Olander | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — A general sense of urgency overshadowed policy details at a Republican-led Senate hearing Tuesday about the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee considered how to reconcile the...
by Angelina Campanile and Evan Ochsner | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday continued to publicly urge Republicans to join Democrats in voting to subpoena witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, saying new revelations should force the GOP lawmakers to get top...
by Janea Wilson | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON–Congress should expand Medicaid to cover a pregnant woman’s prenatal health care as well as the delivery and the baby’s health care, the chairwoman of a House Education and Labor subcommittee said Tuesday. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., said the...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Democrat and Republican members of Congress agreed Tuesday that the federal government should do more to help families after the arrival of a child or when family members are ill — but they couldn’t agree on how to provide that help. At a House Ways and...
by Megan Lebowitz and Cassidy Wang | Jan 25, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — After a mere two hours, President Donald Trump’s defense team concluded their first day of oral arguments in the Senate impeachment trial. The lawyers said they do not believe Democrats met the burden of proof and neglected to cite certain key pieces of...
