by Janea Wilson | Feb 27, 2020 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON—Samantha Griffin became a doula six years ago to try to ensure that women of color made it through childbirth because black women account for one-third of the 700 women who die each year from a pregnancy-related complication. “If you go out every day in the...
by Janea Wilson | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON—The 15th travel-related case of coronavirus in the United States was confirmed Tuesday afternoon by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar at a House committee meeting where some members said President Donald Trump isn’t asking for enough money to...
by Martha Castro | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is destroying sacred indigenous sites while federal agencies fail to properly consult tribes, experts on indigenous rights and tribal members told a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday. “For us, [the...
by Virginia Langmaid | Feb 26, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON –A bill that would pledge U.S. participation in a global plan to protect and restore 1 trillion trees by 2050 endorsed by President Donald Trump at Davos had environmental stakeholders split Wednesday at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing. The...
by Alex Moore | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Wealth inequality in the United States now resembles the massive wealth gap of the Great Depression, with the top 0.1% of today’s wealthiest Americans holding more than 20% of the nation’s wealth, and the future of working class families is...
by Evan Ochsner | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The head of the Senate Appropriations Committee said Tuesday that the U.S. should spend more than the $2.5 billion proposed by President Donald Trump to address the coronavirus as it continues to spread worldwide. So far, 53 Americans are infected with...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON –The unprecedented number of injunctions issued by federal district judges during the Trump administration, prohibiting the government from enforcing laws, invigorated Republican senators to demand curbing this authority on Tuesday, but Democrats said...
by James Pollard and Suzy Vazquez | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON –The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that could ultimately decide whether the First Amendment protects the people who encourage unauthorized immigrants to remain in the country. The case, United States v. Sineneng-Smith, centers on...
by Khadija Islow | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –President Donald Trump’s meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018 and 2019 did nothing to limit North Korea ‘s nuclear program and instead gave North Korea legitimacy, an expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies told a...
by Megan Lebowitz | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Senators Tuesday pressed Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s $2 billion proposal for border wall construction and also criticized the construction’s potential harm to tribal lands and...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 24, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
LAS VEGAS – More than 80 employees at Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino used their lunch break on Saturday to vote in Nevada’s Democratic caucus. State party officials use such examples as proof that the caucus system worked, but critics say too many voters still...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 24, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada caucuses had a starkly different demographic landscape from the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states largely bereft of racial and ethnic diversity. And while the result was the same – a third win for Bernie Sanders, this time the...
