by Allyson Chiu | Jan 11, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON—Power plants have to cut carbon dioxide and other emissions under a new federal environmental plan, but states have to decide how they will allocate emission allowances to local energy companies — and their decisions will have long-range...
by Tyler Kendall | Jan 11, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON- Demonstrators rallied outside the Supreme Court on Monday morning ahead of the hearing of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The case challenges the requirement that teachers, including non-union members, are required to pay agency fees to...
by Geordan Tilley | Jan 6, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON – The House Rules Committee Wednesday reviewed a bill that could have a significant impact on class-action lawsuits such as those that could be brought against Volkswagen. The bill would limit participation in class-action lawsuits to people who...
by Jasper Scherer | Jan 6, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that the U.S. government’s initial analysis of seismic tremors in North Korea is not consistent with the country’s claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb. That doesn’t rule out the possibility that a less powerful device...
by Erin Bacon | Jan 6, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON- Conflict in Iraq is driven by poor governance and injustice more than by sectarianism, which is often cited as a prime cause, according to a Mercy Corps report released Wednesday. The report, which was based on three face-to-face surveys of more than 5,000...
by Noah Fromson | Jan 6, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denounced a budget bill, passed Wednesday, that would repeal the Affordable Care Act. The line in the budget reconciliation bill is the 62nd attempt to eliminate Obamacare — and it would also defund Planned...
by Ethan Cohen | Jan 6, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Despite an almost certain presidential veto of the first Obamacare repeal bill to make it to the White House, a group of conservative congressmen strongly defended the measure but indicated they may differ with Republican leaders on what a GOP health care...
by Mariana Alfaro | Jan 6, 2016 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — The recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids targeting Central American undocumented immigrants will go down as one of the “darkest moments” in President Barack Obama’s administration, the head of the National Immigration Law Center said...
by Nick Hagar | Jan 6, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON – The chairman of an influential House committee called Wednesday for a “complete overhaul” of the federal Small Business Administration operations because of at least 10 years of investigations showing lax loan oversight and lack of security for its...
by Isabella Gutierrez | Jan 6, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A top General Services Administration official told a House subcommittee Wednesday that the agency has reduced by 15 percent its backlog of reimbursement requests under the Army’s family assistance program, but the panel’s chairman said GSA...
by Natalie Escobar | Jan 6, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON – An activist group called Priests for Life on Wednesday urged Catholic parishes to expand their efforts to educate and mobilize voters in the 2016 election campaign, saying that too often some churches have censored themselves. “This is not about the...
by Drew Gerber | Jan 6, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Republicans pushed a bill through the House of Representatives Wednesday that “guts Obamacare and defunds Planned Parenthood,” sending a repeal of the Affordable Care Act to President Barack Obama for the first time after five years of...
