by Joey Maya Safchik | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — “Over 100 years ago, my great-grandfather came to New York City fleeing anti-Semitism,” said Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y. The House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism convened last week to discuss the thereat posed by domestic anti-Semetic...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 23, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON— The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds before midnight, the closest the clock has inched to midnight and a signal of “a very dangerous world,” officials of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said on Thursday. The world’s proximity to Doomsday moved...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy and Janea Wilson | Jan 22, 2020 | Business, Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg emphasized the need to improve America’s infrastructure in a speech Wednesday at the Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In 2017, the American Society of Civil...
by Zamone "Z" Perez and Olivia Olander | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Politics, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed to favor proponents of religious schooling during oral arguments on Wednesday by allowing parents to spend government tax credits on private religious education. The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of...
by Martha Castro, Josh Irvine, Rupa Palla and Suzy Vazquez | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House impeachment managers laid the groundwork for the case against President Donald Trump Wednesday, emphasizing that the president’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine threatened U.S. security. On the second day of the Senate impeachment...
by Cassidy Wang | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — An Economic Development Administration official told a Senate committee on Wednesday that the opportunity zone tax break is a “powerful vehicle” for bringing economic growth to distressed communities. However, Democrats were skeptical that the tax break...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 21, 2020 | Topics
WASHINGTON —- In a case Justice Sonia Sotomayor called “easy to win,” Supreme Court justices Tuesday heard arguments on whether a subcontractor that didn’t sign the main contract with a foreign-owned company can use a legal concept called equitable estoppel to force...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy | Jan 21, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The 2020 U.S. census count officially kicked off Tuesday in Southwest Alaska. Activists on Tuesday questioned whether it will once again undercount racial minorities, which means the groups lose out in allocation of federal funding and electoral...
by Angelina Campanile, Megan Lebowitz, Evan Ochsner and Zamone Perez | Jan 21, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Eleven times Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rose before Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday and Wednesday morning to introduce amendments to allow more evidence in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Each time, those amendments...
by Alex Moore | Jan 16, 2020 | Living
WASHINGTON — With the 2020 elections looming, politicians need to take into account a growing dissatisfaction among voters over the lack of stable and affordable housing, senior leaders with the National Low Income Housing Coalition said Thursday. Speaking at the...
by Suzy Vazquez and Joey Safchik | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – About 100 protesters swarmed Capitol Hill on Thursday to call for the removal of President Donald Trump and demand that Congress take action to stop war with Iran. A dozen were arrested. The protest was organized by a diverse network of grassroots...
by Zamone "Z" Perez and Olivia Olander | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration broke the law when it withheld funds for assistance to Ukraine to further his own interests or policy priorities, according to a report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office that deals with one of the two...
