by Rupa Palla | Jan 24, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Friday marked the 47th annual March for Life rally where pro-lifers from across the country came to Capitol Hill to support the movement. Matt Surdyke was one of the thousands in attendance. He came to represent those who have “no one to...
by Angelina Campanile | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Near freezing temperatures, rain and snow failed to prevent thousands of protesters from gathering in Freedom Plaza on Saturday morning and in several other locations across the country for the fourth annual Women’s March. On the first full day of...
by Sneha Dey, Olivia Olander, James Pollard, Benjamin Rosenberg, Gregory Svirnovskiy and Janea Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON- House impeachment manger Sylvia Garcia said Thursday that President Donald Trump prioritized his personal interests over the country’s national security in a “gross abuse of power.” “If we allow this gross abuse of power to continue…then this...
by Alex Moore | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The solutions that America’s cities need do not have to come from Washington because nobody can better build communities than America’s mayors, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, told the Conference of American Mayors on Thursday. The...
by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — “Over 100 years ago, my great-grandfather came to New York City fleeing anti-Semitism,” said Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y. The House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism convened last week to discuss the thereat posed by domestic anti-Semetic...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds before midnight, the closest the clock has inched to midnight and a signal of “a very dangerous world,” officials of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said on Thursday. The world’s proximity to Doomsday moved...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy and Janea Wilson | Jan 22, 2020 | Business, Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg emphasized the need to improve America’s infrastructure in a speech Wednesday at the Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In 2017, the American Society of Civil...
by Zamone "Z" Perez and Olivia Olander | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Politics, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed to favor proponents of religious schooling during oral arguments on Wednesday by allowing parents to spend government tax credits on private religious education. The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of...
by Martha Castro, Josh Irvine, Rupa Palla and Suzy Vazquez | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House impeachment managers laid the groundwork for the case against President Donald Trump Wednesday, emphasizing that the president’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine threatened U.S. security. On the second day of the Senate impeachment...
by Cassidy Wang | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — An Economic Development Administration official told a Senate committee on Wednesday that the opportunity zone tax break is a “powerful vehicle” for bringing economic growth to distressed communities. However, Democrats were skeptical that the tax break...
by Angelina Campanile, Megan Lebowitz, Evan Ochsner and Zamone Perez | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Eleven times Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rose before Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday and Wednesday morning to introduce amendments to allow more evidence in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Each time, those amendments...
by Suzy Vazquez and Joey Safchik | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – About 100 protesters swarmed Capitol Hill on Thursday to call for the removal of President Donald Trump and demand that Congress take action to stop war with Iran. A dozen were arrested. The protest was organized by a diverse network of grassroots...
