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Breaking down the omnibus bill

Breaking down the omnibus bill

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...

Mental Health Disorders Are Pervasive in the Juvenile Justice System. Here’s How One State Is Addressing It

by Rachel Frazin | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science

WASHINGTON – Between 50 and 70 percent of the young prisoners in state juvenile justice systems have a mental disability, but an analysis of those systems found that only one state — Indiana — requires all teachers in such facilities to have special education...
How self-driving vans and minibuses will change the transit landscape

How self-driving vans and minibuses will change the transit landscape

by Anna Laffrey | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Technology

WASHINGTON— A sleek minibus cruises the streets of National Harbor, Maryland, stopping for walkways and making clean turns. The black-and-white vehicle rolls up to street curbs where riders who have summoned it with an app stand waiting, all the while avoiding...
For GOP, the Year of the Woman Has Not Yet Arrived

For GOP, the Year of the Woman Has Not Yet Arrived

by Maggie Harden | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics

POLITICAL COMMENTATORS are calling 2018 the “year of the woman” based on the record-breaking number of women running for Congress this year. According to estimates from the Center for American Women and Politics, 575 women have declared their intention to...

360 Video: Sustainability at the US Botanic Garden

by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 21, 2018 | Environment, Featured

Environment Reporter Ben Trachtenberg visits the United States Botanic Garden to learn about ways it is helping to teach sustainable gardening and landscaping across the...
Supreme Court hears arguments on tribal land suits

Supreme Court hears arguments on tribal land suits

by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 21, 2018 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices had tough questions for both parties Wednesday during oral arguments in a case that could determine judicial jurisdiction over Indian tribes.  The case concerns a parcel of land in Washington state purchased by the Upper Skagit Indian...
Democratic lawmakers push for gun control measures and school safety programs

Democratic lawmakers push for gun control measures and school safety programs

by Rachel Frazin | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Hours after a student shot two classmates in Maryland on Tuesday, a teacher who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in Florida told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers that students in her school still are often absent...
Experts say lines between terrorist and organized crime organizations are increasingly blurred

Experts say lines between terrorist and organized crime organizations are increasingly blurred

by Renzo Downey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – The lines between terrorists and organized crime groups have become increasingly blurred, but both are national security threats, members of the House Financial Services Committee said Tuesday. In a memorandum, the committee said that terrorist...
Heidi Heitkamp was ready for six more years in the Senate. Then, Kevin Cramer came along.

Heidi Heitkamp was ready for six more years in the Senate. Then, Kevin Cramer came along.

by Stavros Agorakis | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — With Democrats facing a November election in which 24 of their Senate seats are up for a vote, the North Dakota seat, now held by Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, is within the grasp of the Republican Party – and experts expect the battle to get ugly....
FEMA Extends Temporary Housing Assistance for Evacuated Puerto Ricans

FEMA Extends Temporary Housing Assistance for Evacuated Puerto Ricans

by Stavros Agorakis, Mila Jasper & Anna Laffrey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Living

TAMPA, Fla. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended temporary housing set to expire this week by more than two months for Puerto Rican citizens who relocated to the United States after Hurricane Maria, a FEMA representative said. Puerto Ricans...
FEMA-funded Hotel Rooms Are Still the Only ‘Home’ for Many Puerto Rican Evacuees

FEMA-funded Hotel Rooms Are Still the Only ‘Home’ for Many Puerto Rican Evacuees

by Stavros Agorakis, Mila Jasper & Anna Laffrey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Living

TAMPA, Fla. — The Baymont Inn & Suites sits on the edge of the University of South Florida campus outside Tampa. A ceiling fan blows humid air around the lobby, where an array of giant stuffed animals observe tourists coming and going in the early spring warmth....
Senators push for resources to combat election interference by midterms

Senators push for resources to combat election interference by midterms

by Erica Snow | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security needs to work hard to ensure there is no outside interference in the November midterm elections, while lambasting Russian interference in the 2016...
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