by Daniel Hersh | Feb 3, 2015 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Gang shootings in the Washington metropolitan area have been on the rise in the last few months but how the gangs operate differs significantly based on their location – and that has caught the attention of law enforcement officials. “I know the...
by Adam Mintzer | Feb 3, 2015 | Business
WASHINGTON — Standard & Poor’s 500 index agreed to pay nearly $1.38 billion in a settlement related to the rating service’s involvement in the 2008 financial crisis, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday. The Justice Department in 2009 began...
by Shelbie Bostedt | Feb 3, 2015 | Energy, Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON — The European Union needs to cut its dependence on Russian oil and streamline its climate change policies, the EU’s energy chief said Tuesday. Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete is spearheading the establishment of a European Energy Union...
by Bailey Williams | Feb 3, 2015 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., touted President Barack Obama’s budget plan Tuesday morning, stressing the importance of research, education, infrastructure and tax reform in helping American working families. Pelosi said the budget should...
by Nancy Wang | Feb 3, 2015 | Business
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s proposed $4 trillion budget for 2016 would not increase the deficit and also help pay down the $18 trillion national debt, the head of the Office of Management and Budget said Tuesday. “We have taken the action of the full six...
by Yunita Ong | Feb 3, 2015 | Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats blocked a bill Tuesday that would have overturned President Barack Obama’s order loosening immigration restrictions, a move that leave the Department of Homeland Security funding in question. Three GOP senators, including Majority Leader...
by Jesse Kirsch | Feb 3, 2015 | Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON—The House Tuesday passed legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act, the latest of numerous attempts to dissolve Obamacare, but also the first strike in the 114th Congress where both the House and Senate are under Republican control. “The...
by Madeline Fox | Feb 3, 2015 | Energy
WASHINGTON – The U.S. needs more pipelines, railroads and other infrastructure to support the growth in domestic oil and natural gas production, transportation and energy industry leaders told a House infrastructure subcommittee Tuesday. The hearing, which focused on...
by Olivia Marcus | Feb 3, 2015 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — In the first House Ways and Means Committee hearing following the release of President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget proposal, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew defended the would-be tax increases GOP leaders are already trying to kill. “It has been almost three...
by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Feb 3, 2015 | Health & Science, National Security, Topics
By Astrid Goh WASHINGTON — Veteran Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald brought his message of transparency about health care benefits to a town hall Tuesday morning. Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson and members from the Veterans Affairs Committee also participated in...
by Preston R. Michelson | Feb 3, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lamar Alexander called for the federal government Tuesday to encourage — but not mandate — educational innovation as it updates the “No Child Left Behind” law. “I hope we are not far from a conclusion from moving from hearings and discussions to...
by Ashley Gilmore | Feb 2, 2015 | Education, Politics
By Ashley Gilmore WASHINGTON— The centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s $70.7 billion education budget for 2016 – free community college education – would “make college as free and universal as high school was 100 years ago,” Education Secretary Arne Dunn said...
