by Cameron Peters | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Experts Thursday called the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia and uncertainty about the future of another treaty with Russia — New START — an indication that the administration is not...
by Cameron Peters | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — In a contentious House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz interrogated Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert McMahon over the reallocation of funding for President Donald Trump’s national emergency...
by Samantha Handler | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed to favor allowing a 40-foot cross commemorating those who died in World War I to remain in a public park, leaning toward a conclusion that it is a secular symbol honoring war dead rather than a violation of the...
by Henry Erlandson and Charlotte Walsh | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, told a House committee Wednesday that he committed several federal crimes at the direction of the president, admitted lying in the past but swore that he is neither a liar nor a “bad man.”...
by Brooke Fowler | Feb 26, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – After months of uncertainty, President Donald Trump signed a federal spending bill for the 2019 fiscal year last week. A renewal for the Violence Against Women Act, which expired in September, wasn’t included. But even though the law has ended,...
by Ester Wells | Feb 26, 2019 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Democrats tried to hold a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing Tuesday on industries’ use of disinformation to deny climate change, but Republicans walked out, saying the topic was beyond the subcommittee’s jurisdiction. The Oversight and...
by Brooke Fowler | Feb 26, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Members of the Task Force to End Extremism in Fragile States met with Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday to share the latest report on preventing extremism abroad. “You cannot kill your way into winning this battle against extremism,” said...
by Leslie Bonilla | Feb 26, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Top Democrats and Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee brushed off talk of the Green New Deal at a hearing Tuesday on how infrastructure could mitigate climate change. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., said that although he...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Feb 26, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON—In a hearing before the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, former national security officials called for a return to post-World War II ideals of U.S. foreign policy: transatlantic Democratic alliances, taking a stand against Russia and China and...
by Charlotte Walsh | Feb 25, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — He cracked a few jokes at the beginning of his speech, but comedian Jon Stewart appeared on Capitol Hill Monday with a serious message: it’s time to provide permanent help for 9/11 first responders who have become ill or died after exposure to...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 21, 2019 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – An estimated half billion television viewers worldwide witnessed Neil Armstrong take mankind’s first steps on the moon in July 1969, an event that effectively ended the Cold War space race and spurred five ensuing NASA missions to the moon. Fifty years...
by Leslie Bonilla | Feb 21, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Anti-Jewish sentiment exists on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum, but many people only recognize it in their opponents, a leading Holocaust and Jewish history scholar said Thursday. “A lot of progressives think the issue is Israel,”...
