by Tal Axelrod | Jan 13, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Four powerful Republican senators Tuesday pushed for legislation that would impose a two-year moratorium on the transfer of high-level Guantanamo detainees, citing volatility of the Middle East and the recent terror attacks in Paris as signs that now is...
by Tanner Howard | Jan 13, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — The new Congress will take up legislation this year to make higher education more affordable, especially for working parents striving for a college degree, Sen. Mike Lee told a conservative-leaning think tank Tuesday. Lee, R-Utah, said policy-makers...
by Madeline Fox | Jan 13, 2015 | Living
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday released its annual “Most Wanted” list of safety improvements, supplementing six returners from previous years that are still dogging the NTSB with four new concerns. New to the list this year: Ensuring...
by Daniel Hersh | Jan 13, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday pressed experts on how to effectively sanction North Korea in response to the hack on Sony Pictures. “Now this brutal regime has added a new weapon to its arsenal: cyberattacks,” said Rep. Ed Royce,...
by Yunita Ong | Jan 13, 2015 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – House Democrats on Tuesday announced a national tour to encourage undocumented immigrants to sign up for benefits created by President Barack Obama’s November executive order. The move represents another attack on ongoing Republican efforts to shut down...
by Olivia Marcus | Jan 13, 2015 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON – Republican leaders are driving a new comprehensive tax plan, and Paul Ryan is at the wheel. After telling reporters Monday he will forgo a 2016 presidential bid to focus on policy work, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., previewed his agenda Tuesday at his...
by Tyler Pager | Jan 13, 2015 | Politics
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON – House Democrats on Tuesday blasted Republicans for using legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security as a political tool to undermine President Barack Obama’s executive actions easing immigration restrictions. The legislation,...
by Nancy Wang | Jan 13, 2015 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON — The nation faces a “transportation-funding crisis” due to a lack of financial efficiency, transparency and public education, John Schroer, the head of the Tennessee Department of Transportation, said Tuesday. “Our transportation system is falling...
by William Hicks | Jan 13, 2015 | Politics
WASHINGTON—A task force, named by President Obama in the aftermath of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, met for the first time Tuesday to generate recommendations aimed at strengthening community policing and building public trust towards law enforcement....
