by Charlotte Walsh | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON–Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife, Bloomberg journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, were preparing to attend a surprise birthday party for Yeganeh’s mother when Iranian agents came to the building where the couple lived in Tehran. The agents,...
by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 22, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Forty-three of the 50 states have failed to meet optimal traffic safety laws, according to a report released Tuesday by a highway safety group. The Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance between insurance companies and consumer, medical and...
by Samantha Handler | Jan 22, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Last fall when Debbie Goldman was outside the Chevy Chase Community Center in Northwest Washington distributing literature on Election Day, she saw a family run to the library across the street. It was 5:15 p.m. The library was closed. The mother told...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 22, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military to go into effectwhile the case plays out in lower courts. In voting five-four to reverse a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to block...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 20, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of women’s rights activists flooded the streets of cities across the U.S. for the third annual Women’s March. In Washington, the marchers not only advocated for women’s rights but for an end to the partial...
by Cameron Peters | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump heralded a new era in U.S. missile defense on Thursday, saying space-based missile defenses will be built to protect against adversaries’ hypersonic and cruise missiles. The need for a new missile defense strategy due to the threat...
by Brooke Fowler | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House voted Thursday to continue sanctions on companies owned by Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch involved with interference in the 2016 U.S. election, which would block a controversial decision by President Donald Trump to remove the...
by Charlotte Walsh | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — With only 13 women Republicans in the House compared with 89 Democratic women, the GOP House leadership Thursday backed the launch of E-PAC, a political action committee created by GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik dedicated to elect more Republican women to...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is “deeply unpopular with women voters,” but they voted in the mid-terms based on candidates merit rather than to check Trump, a poll released in early December found. The post-November election poll, sponsored by American...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of anti-abortion advocates Thursday kicked off the 2019 March for Life Conference and Expo in advance of the annual march Friday in which protesters call for the overthrow of protections in Roe v. Wade. David Daleidan told the anti-abortion crowd...
by Justin Askenazy | Jan 16, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs to modernize its aging nuclear energy system, the chairman of a Senate energy appropriations subcommittee said, and experts answered that 3-D printing is the answer to advanced, less expensive nuclear reactors. Tennessee Sen. Lamar...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 16, 2019 | Living
WASHINGTON — Thomas and Elfriede Flavin lost over $80,000 to someone claiming on Facebook to represent their grandson, leaving them with barely enough money from Social Security and pensions to cover daily living expenses, their daughter told the Senate Special...
