by Nicole Markus | Feb 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – One hundred faces lined the walls of the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in the first week after the fentanyl memorial was created last May. Now, less than a year later, over 4,800 people are memorialized there. DEA Administrator Anne Milgram...
by Logan Schiciano | Feb 15, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Nikki Haley formally launched her 2024 presidential bid Wednesday morning in front of friends, family and supporters in downtown Charleston, S.C., setting the stage for a bout with her former boss, Donald Trump, in the Republican primary. Haley affirmed...
by Emiliana Betancourt | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis created controversy last month when the Florida Department of Education threatened to reject AP African American studies. DeSantis was criticized for the move and accused of pursuing it to further his political agenda. He...
by Caroline Neal | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and John Kennedy (R-La.) called for stricter legislation limiting social media use for minors under 16 years old during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. The hearing, called “Protecting Our...
by Saul Pink | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden started his career in politics in 1971 as a member of the New Castle, Del., County Council. Over half a century later, he touted his administration’s economic efforts to more than two thousand county officials at Tuesday’s National...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) led a group of seven House Democrats to introduce a formal resolution Thursday to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from Congress. It’s the first formal move to remove the embattled freshman congressman, who is the subject of...
by Brennan Leach | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Democrats doubled-down on the label of “extreme MAGA Republicans” in Congress after heckles during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. “I’m confident that the overwhelming majority of the American people found that aggressive,...
by Lucia Barnum | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and community leaders from across the country gathered to talk health, baseball and resiliency at the fifth Annual Dominicans on the Hill event on Wednesday. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), the first Dominican American to serve in the House,...
by Stephanie Markowitz | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee’s hearing on Wednesday over Twitter’s temporary suppression of an article about Hunter Biden’s laptop rapidly devolved into partisan fighting about First Amendment rights, claims of collusion between Twitter and the...
by Brennan Leach | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In his first State of the Union address to a divided Congress, President Joe Biden emphasized unity. House Democrats, however, spotlight chaos and dysfunction within the GOP that have made that goal nearly impossible. Biden began his speech Tuesday...
by Logan Schiciano | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – As President Joe Biden unofficially kicks off his campaign with a trip to Wisconsin on Wednesday following his State of the Union address, several Democrats aren’t openly encouraging the president to run for reelection. When asked if Biden should run in...
by Saul Pink | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden touted the recent decrease in crossings at the southern border while urging Congress to pass bipartisan immigration reform at the State of the Union address Tuesday. “If you won’t pass my comprehensive immigration reform, at least pass...
