by Caroline Vakil | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
In a western Pennsylvania district that President Donald Trump won by 19 points, experts says there’s a good chance that Democratic women, and by some GOP female voters, could turn out in large enough numbers to boost Democrat Conor Lamb to a seat in Congress in...
by Syd Stone | Mar 13, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON —Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s policies are an “unprecedented” attack on public lands and the environment, the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said Tuesday. Zinke explained to the committee President Donald Trump’s 2019...
by Priyanka Godbole | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Action, accountability and training starting at top leadership levels are crucial first steps toward combating sexual harassment and creating safe and fair newsrooms, two former journalists who founded Press Forward said Tuesday. Launched in...
by Paola de Varona | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Less than a week after Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson defended his push to remove anti-discrimination language from the HUD mission statement, the National Low Income House Coalition released a report Tuesday showing the shortage of...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb are facing off Tuesday to represent Pennsylvania’s 18th district, a place where no Democrats even bothered to run in the last two cycles and President Trump won by 20 points in 2016. Polls show the two...
by Anna Laffrey | Mar 13, 2018 | Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON — The intersection of autonomous vehicle technology, ride-sharing and electric propulsion in vehicles will change the way that cities work, transportation experts said Tuesday at a meeting on how the new cars will affect urban sprawl. The...
by Rachel Frazin | Mar 13, 2018 | Education, Featured, Politics
Since 26 students and teachers were murdered and two injured by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., there have been 10 more fatal shootings at American elementary, middle, and high schools. In all, 57 people were killed, excluding the shooters....
by Renzo Downey | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Changes made to the Freedom of Information Act in 2016 to make government documents more accessible have still not been fully implemented by most agencies surveyed, according to a Government Accountability Office audit released Tuesday. The GAO, the...
by Eric Miller | Mar 12, 2018 | Politics
WAYNESBURG, Pa. – Two days before the Tuesday special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district, Conor Lamb, the first Democrat to run for Congress here since 2012, was all smiles. Speaking before a crowd of coal miners in rural Greene County,...
by Eric Miller | Mar 12, 2018 | National Security, Politics
ARLINGTON, VA – Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort pled not guilty on Thursday to charges of tax and bank fraud as part of the Russia investigation. The charges were the latest brought by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller in the wide-ranging probe of possible...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Politics
CANNONSBURG, Pa. – Millennial turnout could make or break Democrat Conor Lamb’s chances to win a seat in Congress in Pennsylvania’s special election Tuesday, possibly offsetting the fact that President Donald Trump won the heavily Republican district by over 19...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Once the most prosperous country in Latin America, Venezuela now has the worst hyperinflation in the world, and the resulting exodus of its citizens may produce more refugees than the Syrian conflict, according to some experts. Venezuela is experiencing...
