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...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The United States and France will continue to work together to counter terrorism in Iran, stop the use of nuclear weapons in Syria and put pressure on North Korea, U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 18, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Washington state argued to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that replacing hundreds of stream culverts blocking salmon migration is onerous and too expensive. In the 1850s, the federal government signed the Stevens Treaties with Indian tribes, granting them...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 17, 2018 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration needs to work with its allies in the Middle East to counter terrorist networks supported and funded by Iran that pose a threat to the U.S., a senior scholar from the Center for American Progress told a House Homeland Security...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 11, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Once again asserting that Cambridge Analytica and other companies improperly obtained millions of Facebook users’ data, Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday at his second congressional hearing in two days that he was among Facebook users whose data was...
by Libby Berry & Paola de Varona | Apr 3, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Eighth-grader Cailyn Moreno can’t wait to tell her mom about the exciting news she just received: “I got my grade up 15 percent,” exclaims the 14-year-old from Anne Arundel County. “Fifteen percent in two days!” It’s a Wednesday afternoon, but she’ll have...
by Kristina Karisch | Mar 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — It appears likely that Congress can prevent a “perfect storm” of problems that could jeopardize the accuracy of the 2020 census by giving the Census Bureau a crucial $1.3 billion funding hike. An inaccurate census means more than a mistaken count of...
by Paola de Varona | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday that funds the federal government through Sept. 30. Now the Senate faces a Friday deadline to pass the bill to avoid a government shutdown, which would be the third such shutdown this year. The...
by Libby Berry & Maggie Harden | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to pass a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill that would fund the government until September. The bill includes several controversial provisions, including increased funding for border security and no long-term fix for DACA...
