by Jason Harward | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Congress passed a stopgap spending bill Thursday, averting a government shutdown and maintaining the federal government’s budget at current levels for the next two months. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill shortly after 6 p.m. Eastern...
by Rayna Song | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Wiping away tears, Rep. Cori Bush on Thursday told a House committee the story of her rape at age 17 to demonstrate the need for abortion rights and less restrictive access to abortion. “When he was done, he got up, he pulled up his pants, and...
by Christina van Waasbergen | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday defended the Supreme Court’s decision to decline a request to block a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, saying it was not unusual for the court to use the “shadow docket” to...
by Jason Harward | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – A group of Republican senators Wednesday signaled their support for a temporary spending bill to avoid a government shutdown Thursday at midnight when the 2022 federal fiscal year begins. But their support was conditioned on removing language that would...
by Mary Yang | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats on Tuesday pushed a fragile message of party unity in hopes of passing both a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure agreement and a $3.5 trillion spending bill – both part of President Joe Biden’s agenda....
by Rupa Palla | Mar 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law 10 years ago this month. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, access to health care will likely weigh heavily on voters in the remaining Democratic primaries leading up to the Democratic National...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — When Matthew Petersen left his role as a commissioner in the Federal Election Commission at the end of August, the campaign finance oversight agency no longer had a quorum four commissioners — leaving it unable to meet. The Senate Republicans finally...
by Suzy Vazquez and Cassidy Wang | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Rachel Fey remembers struggling to get health insurance to cover her birth control costs – more than $400 out of pocket for three months of her pills. For some women, paying for food and shelter often doesn’t leave enough left over to pay for birth...
by Martha Castro and Khadija Islow | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
With increasing concerns about the coronavirus spreading in Iran’s overcrowded prisons, Michael White, an American citizen detained in Iran since 2018, has been temporarily released, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday, although four other American imprisoned...
by Joshua Irvine | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Politics
A bill mandating paid sick leave and expanding federal unemployment benefits that won resounding bipartisan approval in the House and Senate received no support from Wisconsin’s Republicans, who say it was rushed and would put further strain on small businesses. The...
by Olivia Olander | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Campaigns, interest groups and political parties may not be effectively tapping into a pool of nearly 100 million Americans in 2020: nonvoters. There’s greater focus on people who will likely turn out in November, rather than finding new groups of voters...
