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...
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...
