by Ester Wells | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Vehicle safety leaders and the mother of a drunk driving victim urged a House subcommittee Thursday to adopt comprehensive breathalyzer legislation and support new technology to prevent drunk driving. Helen Witty, national president of Mothers Against...
by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Living, Politics
WASHINGTON — Native American tribal governments need more power to properly investigate and prosecute cases of murdered and missing Native American women, tribal advocates told a House Natural Resources subcommittee Thursday. Tribal governments often have difficulty...
by Brooke Fowler | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted 59-41 Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration of a national emergency, with 12 Republicans joining the 47 Democrats to send a message to the president that he had overstepped his authority. Trump said he declared...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics
In 2009, Carrboro, North Carolina Alderman Lydia Lavelle asked the state legislature for permission to include LGBTQ people in Carrboro’s laws banning housing discrimination. Lawmakers said no. North Carolina’s statewide anti-discrimination law does not include...
by Samantha Handler and Charlotte Walsh | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics, Topics
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Every four years, presidential hopefuls swarm the small state of New Hampshire, home to the nation’s first primary, And to its diners, where they must do what politicians do best: mingle. From pancake breakfasts to hamburgers to-go, diners...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 13, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Americans are increasingly concerned that climate change is both real and manmade, and major fossil fuel industries are heeding the change in public sentiment by investing in green energy. In 2019 alone, BP and Glencore agreed to investor demands to set...
by Henry Erlandson | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — The United States must prioritize its international partnerships and harness the private sector to maintain its position as the global leader in space, legislators said Wednesday. Several senators expressed a growing concern at a Committee on Commerce,...
by Nirmal Mulaikal | Mar 13, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The head of the House Education and Labor Committee called for “bold higher education reforms” Wednesday to solve the $1.5 trillion owed in student loans, as part of an effort to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. “If we only tinker around the edges...
by Samantha Handler | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Federal Bureau of Investigations and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive officials said Wednesday they need more funding because of the possible passage of background check legislation and the increased cost of criminal investigations. At a Commerce,...
by Ester Wells & Leslie Bonilla | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
ALEXANDRIA, VA —School lunchrooms across Washington, DC will be serving an original recipe from five middle school students next year. The quinoa and chicken “Winter Bowl” recipe, created by a team from Takoma Park Middle School, won the 7th annual Real Food for Kids...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 13, 2019 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON –– A bill to renew a diesel emissions reduction law is one of the few successful climate initiatives with bipartisan support and should get quick congressional approval, senators on the Environment and Public Works committee said Wednesday at a hearing on...
by Justin Askenazy | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – House Armed Services Committee chairman Adam Smith ridiculed President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.75 trillion budget Wednesday in a speech before defense officials and investors, saying the Pentagon is being left in the dark as to how their funds would be...
