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 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 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...
by Evan Ochsner | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Stating that senators should render “impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws,” Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday administered an oath to senators for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Nearly a month after the House of...
by Evan Ochsner and James Pollard | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Shortly before the Senate formally accepted the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump from the House, senators delivered the president a major legislative victory Thursday, passing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement in an...
by Sneha Dey and Rupa Palla | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said new information related to the impeachment charges against President Donald Trump is evidence of “this tangled web to deceive that the administration has engaged in.” “Every day that we’re involved in this...
by Joshua Irvine | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Democratic operatives Thursday unveiled a slew of state legislatures they have targeted for takeover in the 2020 elections. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee named seven states –North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Texas...
by James Pollard and Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution appointing and authorizing managers for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. The vote comes nearly one month after the House voted to impeach the president — a month of sparring...
by Zamone "Z" Perez and Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 15, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The full Senate looks on track to approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement this week, after the last four Senate committees considering the trade deal advanced it Wednesday. Republicans in the Senate are aiming to push USMCA through before the start of...
