by Paola de Varona | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Less than a week after Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson defended his push to remove anti-discrimination language from the HUD mission statement, the National Low Income House Coalition released a report Tuesday showing the shortage of...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb are facing off Tuesday to represent Pennsylvania’s 18th district, a place where no Democrats even bothered to run in the last two cycles and President Trump won by 20 points in 2016. Polls show the two...
by Anna Laffrey | Mar 13, 2018 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON — The intersection of autonomous vehicle technology, ride-sharing and electric propulsion in vehicles will change the way that cities work, transportation experts said Tuesday at a meeting on how the new cars will affect urban sprawl. The...
by Rachel Frazin | Mar 13, 2018 | Education, Featured, Politics
Since 26 students and teachers were murdered and two injured by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., there have been 10 more fatal shootings at American elementary, middle, and high schools. In all, 57 people were killed, excluding the shooters....
by Renzo Downey | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Changes made to the Freedom of Information Act in 2016 to make government documents more accessible have still not been fully implemented by most agencies surveyed, according to a Government Accountability Office audit released Tuesday. The GAO, the...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Politics
CANNONSBURG, Pa. – Millennial turnout could make or break Democrat Conor Lamb’s chances to win a seat in Congress in Pennsylvania’s special election Tuesday, possibly offsetting the fact that President Donald Trump won the heavily Republican district by over 19...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Once the most prosperous country in Latin America, Venezuela now has the worst hyperinflation in the world, and the resulting exodus of its citizens may produce more refugees than the Syrian conflict, according to some experts. Venezuela is experiencing...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Mar 11, 2018 | Featured, Politics
MOON TOWNSHIP, PENN. – President Donald Trump touted steel tariffs and his upcoming talks with North Korea as he urged western Pennsylvania Republicans to vote for Rick Saccone in a Saturday night campaign rally leading up to a tight special election against Democrat...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Mar 9, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Transportation policy expert Sarah Kline has done a lot of research on selling government assets to the private sector. But President Donald Trump’s proposal to sell the George Washington Memorial Parkway took her by surprise. “You...
by Libby Berry | Mar 8, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON – Despite early concerns about its effects on reproductive health care in the developing world, Congress is unlikely to repeal policy that restricts international organizations’ ability to offer abortion services if they receive U.S. funding, Sen. Jeanne...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Mar 8, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Featured, National Security, Technology
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has failed to hire needed cybersecurity professionals even though it was given approval to do so by Congress in 2014, according to a report released March 8 by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO, which is the...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Mar 8, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Touting Oregon’s efforts to combat the opioid crisis, Gov. Kate Brown told a Senate committee Thursday that states need the federal government to step up its efforts by providing more money and moving beyond punishment of drug users to prevention. “Right...
