by Nirmal Mulaikal | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House passed Wednesday $12.1 billion in emergency disaster aid to help recovery efforts from California’s wildfires, Hurricanes Florence and Michael, typhoons the Alaska earthquakes and Hawaii’s volcano eruption and earthquakes — and also would...
by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — The 26-day partial government shutdown is hurting financial markets as well as low-income renters, the head of the House Financial Services Committee said Wednesday. The Financial Services Committee oversees the securities, insurance, banking and housing...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 16, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works criticized acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler over his ties to the coal industry, his support for loosening mercury regulations and what they considered lackluster support for...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups, legal experts and former colleagues offered contradictory accounts of Attorney General nominee William Barr’s views and temperament during the second day of his Senate confirmation hearings – with civil rights leaders criticizing his...
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...
