by Khadija Islow | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s proposed $2 billion budget increase for the agency to $10.4 billion, saying the agency needs more resources for the influx of migrants to the border....
by Cassidy Wang | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Both Democrats and Republicans vehemently criticized two former Wells Fargo board members Wednesday for not changing practices after repeated management failures that have led to consumer abuses and compliance breakdowns. Former board members Elizabeth...
by Rupa Palla | Mar 11, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON – It’s not easy. Sen. Bernie Sanders began his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with hopes of bringing millions of young voters into the political process. On Super Tuesday he got the youth vote, but it wasn’t enough. According to Pew...
by Sneha Dey | Mar 11, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON — Before she ended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Elizabeth Warren went after fellow candidate Mike Bloomberg about sexual misconduct allegations against him. At the Feb. 19 debate three days before the Nevada Democratic...
by Virginia Langmaid | Mar 11, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Climate activists have been calling on the next president to declare a national climate emergency within his first 100 days in office. But the legality of such a move will be tested when the Supreme Court rules on whether President Donald Trump can...
by Janea Wilson | Mar 11, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
ANN ARBOR, Michigan — When freshman Andrew Schaeffler arrived at the University of Michigan last fall, he was surprised that there was no organization supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. So he did something...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — As high numbers of children in the United States continue to be born into poverty, members of Congress agreed Wednesday they should do more to provide for poor families and help their children — primarily by making it easier for parents to...
by Martha Castro | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON— Former government terrorism experts say stricter oversight of federal agencies is needed to ensure anti-terrorism surveillance and monitoring don’t violate people’s privacy and civil liberties in response to a Department of Homeland Security report...
by Khadija Islow | Mar 10, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON–The United States ability to respond to the coronavirus outbreak is the result of underfunding of public health organizations over the last decade, the former White House Ebola coordinator and a top of Trust for America’s Health said. Nadine Garcia,...
by Alex Moore | Mar 10, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The 2020 U.S. Census is underway with the goal to count every U.S. resident once, and in the right place, which is defined as where they sleep a majority of the time. But critics say this decision grants too much power to rural communities that are...
by Angelina Campanile | Mar 10, 2020 | Featured, Living
A vivid example of Washington’s rank as having the highest number of homeless people per capita is the line of pitched tents outside the brick walls of Union Station. Any free sidewalk space is occupied by shopping carts overflowing with blankets and cardboard boxes....
by Janea Wilson | Mar 10, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured
ANN ARBOR, Michigan — When freshman Andrew Schaeffler arrived at the University of Michigan last fall, he was surprised that there was no organization supporting former Vice President Joe Biden’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. So he did something...
