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...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 21, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer said Wednesday he hopes Congress will pass a resolution to protect “dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children ahead of the massive annual spending bill that must be passed by Friday to avoid a...
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...
by Catherine Kim | Mar 21, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON –– Democrat Conor Lamb’s win in the special election for a long-time GOP congressional seat in Pennsylvania does not indicate a more conservative turn for Democrats, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley said at a press conference Wednesday. ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
by Jakob Lazzaro & Caroline Vakil | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices questioned the constitutionality of a California law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose that they do not provide abortion services and educate women on where those services are available during oral arguments...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 20, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON— Energy Secretary Rick Perry faced tough questions on proposed funding for oil drilling in the Arctic, renewable energy and security of the energy grid Tuesday during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Trump administration’s 2019...
