by Brooke Fowler | Jan 31, 2019 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Advocates for women’s rights in the Gulf countries have adopted a style of feminism that blends western equality with secular values, several experts said Thursday. Academics, economic experts and human right advocates gathered at an event hosted by...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 31, 2019 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Economic redistribution is the solution to global inequality, according to International Monetary Fund researchers who gathered Thursday at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “We’ve seen protest after protest over the past 20 years in...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 31, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Abortion foes Thursday condemned recent legislative moves across the country loosening restrictions on late-term abortions. Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, condemned Democratic lawmakers who are passing abortion rights...
by Cameron Peters | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A joint resolution to quickly end U.S. support for the Saudi-backed forces at war in Yemen was reintroduced on Wednesday after failing to receive a vote in the Republican-controlled House last year. The bill would direct the president to remove U.S. armed...
by Charlotte Walsh | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Legislators began negotiating funding for the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday. The bicameral conference committee has two weeks to reach a compromise before the stopgap government funding bill expires Feb. 15. However, the president tweeted...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 30, 2019 | Environment, Featured
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, experts predict that the effects of hurricanes, floods, and other disasters will be much worse for low-income communities. Houston’s Manchester neighborhood is a symbol of the problem. On one...
by Nirmal Mulaikal | Jan 30, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON –Democrats on Wednesday proposed spending $100 billion over 10 years to build new schools and improve existing schools nationwide, especially in low-income communities. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., who sponsored the Senate version of the bill, called on the...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Jan 30, 2019 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON —The Paycheck Fairness Act was reintroduced in the 116th congress Wednesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democrats from the House and Senate. If passed, it would protect employee’s ability to discuss their salaries, require employers...
by Justin Askenazy | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Representatives from Venezuela’s interim government Wednesday advocated for greater international support for self-declared interim president Juan Guaidó and greater pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to step down. Guaidó’s representative to the United...
by Ester Wells | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON — Space Foundation CEO Tom Zelibor and industry leaders called Wednesday for development of space for commercial uses by entrepreneurs and businesses rather than a war for space domination among competing countries. “Today’s space race is being waged by...
by Samantha Handler and Charlotte Walsh | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON —Roger Stone walked into federal court Tuesday as a crowd erupted into chants of both “Roger Stone did nothing wrong” and “lock him up.” Once inside, he pleaded innocent to charges brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller in connection with...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee hammered Pentagon officials Tuesday on the cost of having nearly 6,000 troops on the US-Mexico border, both in terms of dollars spent and training activities that are disrupted by irregular deployment...
