by Renzo Downey | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON—Rail transportation and other mass transit are particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks, yet President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the surface transportation security budget in half, a member of a Senate subcommittee...
by Catherine Kim | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –– Experts lambasted Trump’s plans for nuclear warfare strategy, leaked earlier this month, during a Tuesday event here sponsored by the Arms Control Association. The plans, described in a draft of the Nuclear Posture Review, are an...
by Erica Snow | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON—The number of anti-Muslim hate groups and crimes in the United States have increased dramatically in recent years, experts told reporters in a conference call. Organized by legal and educational group Muslim Advocates, the call highlighted the one-year...
by Anna Laffrey | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Mayors worry that high prices and scarcity in housing will cause people to move out of their cities, according to a survey of over 100 mayors across the country released Thursday. Half of the mayors surveyed – 51 percent — cited housing costs...
by Rachel Frazin | Jan 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – On the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, thousands of women, joined by many men, marched from the Lincoln Memorial area to the White House on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March, which was...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured, Politics
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. — President Donald Trump touted his tax plan as boosting Americans’ paychecks and praised Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone Thursday during a speech at a manufacturing company outside of Pittsburgh. Calling Saccone a...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Jan 18, 2018 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON— Last year was the one of the warmest on record, according to a joint report released Thursday by scientists from NASA and NOAA. “2017 was the second warmest year in the NASA GISTEMP record, only less than 2016,” said NASA Goddard Institute...
by Stavros Agorakis | Jan 18, 2018 | Education
WASHINGTON — Getting financial aid at American colleges is too complicated and should be simplified immediately to make it easier for low-income students to apply for the funds while also consolidating the confusing number of programs, the chairman of Senate Health,...
by Renzo Downey & Priyanka Godbole | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan said Senate Democrats are using “dreamers” to threaten a government shutdown at the expense of a proper military budget, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Republicans are to blame for the impending shutdown, which she...
by Rachel Frazin | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the historic Women’s March on Washington following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, as many as 8,000 people are expected to participate in Saturday’s women’s march to support female candidates in the 2018...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — House Democrats from the Congressional Black Caucus and the Judiciary Committee on Thursday introduced a resolution to censure President Donald Trump for his recent comments about Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. “We will not stand quietly by and...
by Syd Stone | Jan 18, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Cleaning up the hazardous waste at Superfund sites is taking too long and the fact that some sites from the original 1980 list have not been fixed is “embarrassing,” a member of the House Subcommittee on Environment said Thursday during a hearing. The...
