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....
by Jesse Kirsch | Jan 12, 2015 | Politics
by Adam Mintzer | Jan 12, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Despite Republican lawmakers’ resistance to carbon emission regulation, a new study suggests voters’ views don’t always align with their elected officials’ actions. On Monday, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication said 54 percent of...
