by Christina van Waasbergen | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday defended the Supreme Court’s decision to decline a request to block a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, saying it was not unusual for the court to use the “shadow docket” to...
by Delaney Nelson | Sep 29, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON —In order to curb the effects of extreme weather events, emergency management leaders said Wednesday that the federal government needs to increase state and local funding for natural disaster preparedness and simplify the Federal Emergency Management...
by Linus Hoeller | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –Biden’s national strategy for countering domestic terrorism will require federal agencies to develop new tools that focus on internal threats rather than foreign terrorists and bring up divisive issues of information sharing among law enforcement, the...
by Jason Harward | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – A group of Republican senators Wednesday signaled their support for a temporary spending bill to avoid a government shutdown Thursday at midnight when the 2022 federal fiscal year begins. But their support was conditioned on removing language that would...
by Rayna Song | Sep 29, 2021 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Small forestry products businesses play an important role in combating climate change and should be encouraged to use practices that protect forests against wildfires and that preserve forests, members of the House Subcommittee on Underserved,...
by Hannah Zhihan Jiang | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Almost a month after the U.S.’s rapid evacuation from Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Central Command chief Gen. Frank McKenzie, testified Tuesday on Capitol...
by Mary Yang | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats on Tuesday pushed a fragile message of party unity in hopes of passing both a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure agreement and a $3.5 trillion spending bill – both part of President Joe Biden’s agenda....
by Mikayla Denault | Sep 28, 2021 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Health inequities and vaccination strategies were the topics of debate at today’s House Education and Labor joint subcommittee hearing. The witnesses and committee members discussed ways to protect vulnerable communities from COVID-19, such as...
by Ali McCadden | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — After serving a total of 12 years in prison on a series of felony convictions, Dolfinette Martin spent the first year of her release living in her mother’s senior living apartment, hiding from others in the building because the lease prohibited...
by Khadija Islow | Apr 1, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
President Donald Trump should invoke his authority under the Defense Production Act to expedite the delivery of masks, gloves and gowns to frontline workers who are at a high risk of contracting the coronavirus, union leaders said Tuesday. “While the rest of America...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Wednesday it is seeking $255 million to deliver equipment to test refugees and migrants for the coronavirus, to deliver medical supplies and to install handwashing stations in camps and settlements. The...
