by Caroline Vakil | Jan 11, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced Thursday that his agency will provide $2 billion in grants to fight homelessness through temporary housing. “The funding we announced today is provided through the Continuum of Care grant...
by Kristina Karisch & Maggie Harden | Jan 11, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Despite deep party divides surrounding immigration policy, House Republican and Democratic leaders on Thursday said they were confident that Congress would pass a bill that protects “dreamers.” Speaking at back-to-back news conferences, both House Speaker...
by Syd Stone | Jan 11, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress should quickly pass a Senate bill to make it easier to take legal action against websites that support or encourage sex trafficking rather than a similar House bill, the Senate bill’s sponsors said Thursday, claiming the House version doesn’t go...
by Mila Jasper | Jan 11, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Eleven of the 41 remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be freed because they have not been charged and their continued detention is illegally punitive, the human rights group Center for Constitutional Rights said Thursday in asking a federal court...
by Neha Rashid | Apr 22, 2017 | Living
WASHINGTON – The trend of increased urbanization as baby boomers and young people leave the suburbs for metropolitan areas has created economic segregation, but it can be mitigated by ensuring affordable housing, better wages for service jobs and leadership at the...
by Sara Sarwar | Apr 10, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan congressional task force created last week wants to draft legislation that would take on sexual violence in colleges, in elementary and high school and in the military, saying the stigma of being a victim must be eradicated and police...
by Benjamin Din | Dec 1, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The first family rang in the holiday season Thursday evening, lighting the National Christmas Tree for the final time. Joined by first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha Obama, President Barack Obama focused on the need for acceptance, regardless of...
by Jason Mast | Dec 1, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The liberal Supreme Court justices Wednesday seemed skeptical of U.S. policies that allowed certain immigrants to be detained for years without trial, potentially signaling a ruling that would impede President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation...
by Jason Mast | Dec 1, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – On the evening of Nov. 8, Tracy Terrill smiled and kissed his partner beneath the vaulted glass ceiling of the Javits Convention Center, Hillary Clinton’s election night headquarters. When the Associated Press called Florida for Donald Trump...
by Evelyn Wang | Dec 1, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
WASHINGTON – The ongoing search for scapegoats to explain the surprise result of the presidential election has found a convenient one in the form of fake news. But it is impossible to tell how much fake news has affected the election results, said Kathleen Jamieson,...
by Isabella Alvarenga | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail about Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin has understandably created speculation about what U.S.-Russia relations will look like under President-elect Trump. As tensions with Russia increased...
by Marissa Page | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON –Senators on the Special Committee on Aging said Wednesday the government needs to better track the extent of elder abuse involving financial manipulation, which elderly advocates said is a vastly underreported problem. “There are currently no national...
