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...
by Nirmal Mulaikal | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House passed Wednesday $12.1 billion in emergency disaster aid to help recovery efforts from California’s wildfires, Hurricanes Florence and Michael, typhoons the Alaska earthquakes and Hawaii’s volcano eruption and earthquakes — and also would...
by Leslie Bonilla | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — The 26-day partial government shutdown is hurting financial markets as well as low-income renters, the head of the House Financial Services Committee said Wednesday. The Financial Services Committee oversees the securities, insurance, banking and housing...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 16, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works criticized acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler over his ties to the coal industry, his support for loosening mercury regulations and what they considered lackluster support for...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups, legal experts and former colleagues offered contradictory accounts of Attorney General nominee William Barr’s views and temperament during the second day of his Senate confirmation hearings – with civil rights leaders criticizing his...
by Samantha Handler | Jan 15, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Department of Education on Tuesday outlined proposed changes to Obama-era regulations on the college accreditation process, which controls billions of dollars in federal student aid. Accrediting agencies monitor nonprofit and for-profit...
by Ester Wells | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats on Tuesday vowed to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict women’s access to birth control and to eliminate federal funds for Planned Parenthood. “What happens to women’s bodies should be our choice made with our...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Attorney General nominee William P. Barr testified Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would let special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation continue to its conclusion, responding to Democrats’ concerns that some of his past...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s rollback of a program that allows undocumented students to leave the U.S. for education or work and return legally has hurt so-called “dreamers,” the executive director of the California-Mexico Studies Center told several...
