by Samantha Handler | Jan 15, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Department of Education on Tuesday outlined proposed changes to Obama-era regulations on the college accreditation process, which controls billions of dollars in federal student aid. Accrediting agencies monitor nonprofit and for-profit...
by Ester Wells | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats on Tuesday vowed to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict women’s access to birth control and to eliminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood. “What happens to women’s bodies should be our choice made with our...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Attorney General nominee William P. Barr testified Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would let special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation continue to its conclusion, responding to Democrats’ concerns that some of his past...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s rollback of a program that allows undocumented students to leave the U.S. for education or work and return legally has hurt so-called “dreamers,” the executive director of the California-Mexico Studies Center told several...
by Cameron Peters and Heena Srivastava | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration should condemn Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for orchestrating the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a group of congressmen and the publisher of The Washington Post said Thursday, 100 days...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Federal Communications Commission employee Ronald Cunningham wants to keep his Ford truck. He’s only owned it for three months. But he has been furloughed for nearly three weeks as part of the partial federal government shutdown and says if he is not paid...
by Nirmal Mulaikal | Jan 10, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Speaking at the National Press Club, Bibb County School Superintendent Curtis Jones Jr. said Thursday that the nearly three-week partial federal government shutdown is affecting local communities and makes it harder to teach children in those...
by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Wearing purple shirts, federal aviation workers joined by aviation industry employees and organizations rallied Thursday for an end to the three-week partial federal government shutdown Air traffic controllers have been working without pay since the...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 10, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – House Democrats, joined by 10 Republicans voted Thursday to pass a bill that would fund the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, which have been shut down for nearly three weeks, though the measure is unlikely to get Senate...
by Ester Wells | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders and several Democratic House members proposed legislation Thursday to cut prescription drug prices, saying U.S. prices are higher than in most other developed countries. “How many Americans have to die before Congress takes on...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House Republicans should support funding the Interior Department in a Friday vote so that it can reopen because they originally proposed it. While Republicans proposed the legislation, Pelosi said she believes...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 25, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in issuing a travel ban against eight countries, but a Justice Department lawyer said the ban is based on national security requirements and isn’t...
