by Ester Wells | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON — A health expert and the family members of elderly abuse victims told a Senate committee Wednesday that many nursing homes are unsafe and treat their patients abusively, including rape. Seminole, Florida resident Maya Fischer told the Senate Finance...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON –– The Department of Homeland Security has been regularly “misleading” Congress and the public by denying it was separating thousands of children from parents at the border and failing to give the House Homeland Security Committee documents related to the...
by Brooke Fowler | Mar 5, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – High school student Ethan Lindenberger, who sought vaccinations last month without his mother’s approval, told a Senate committee Tuesday that anti-vaccination rhetoric is founded in fear and misinformation. Outside the hearing, hundreds of...
by Henry Erlandson | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Living
WASHINGTON – In the months after the Trump administration formally ended its family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, more than 200 new immigrant children were separated from their families and the number previously separated was much larger than reported....
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A House Judiciary subcommittee debated President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration Thursday — the first congressional hearing on the National Emergencies Act in more than 40 years. The hearing examined Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration, which...
by Brooke Fowler | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – An increasingly female veterans’ population is pressuring the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand their health care options, especially in rural areas. Between 1973, when the draft ended, and 2018, the percentage of women in enlisted forces increased...
by Justin Askenazy | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – State and local health experts Thursday stressed the need for more doctors and other health care providers, especially in rural areas, to combat the opioid epidemic at a Senate hearing. State health department directors, behavioral science professors and...
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,...
