by Evan Ochsner and James Pollard | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday named House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and five other House members as the impeachment managers who will present the case against the president in...
by Sneha Dey and Angelina Campanile | Jan 14, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –Top Department of Homeland Security officials told a congressional hearing Tuesday that the agency has made significant progress in ensuring that children sent to border detention centers get health care and has administered thousands of vaccinations to...
by Evan Ochsner | Jan 14, 2020 | Featured, Impeachment, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Democrat-controlled House will vote Wednesday to send its two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, Democratic leaders said Tuesday, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell swiftly responded that the Senat trial will...
by Zamone "Z" Perez | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Department of Agriculture plan to cut off food stamp eligibility for some adults with no dependents could severely hurt veterans, the chairman of a House subcommittee said Thursday, but a USDA official said the program could lead to veterans being...
by Sneha Dey and Olivia Olander | Jan 9, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The 2020 census could undercount hard-to-reach populations because it will be the first to be completed largely online and the Trump administration’s failed attempt to add a citizenship question may scare away immigrants, especially those who are...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — It seems a foregone conclusion that President Donald Trump will be acquitted of impeachment charges by the Republican majority in the Senate. But that didn’t stop a group of frustrated current and former Republicans who want Trump to be removed from...
by Megan Lebowitz and Evan Ochsner | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she would proceed “smartly and strategically” in determining when to send the House articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial while also laying out the case for a House resolution that would reign in...
by Henry Erlandson | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Pablo Picasso once described an artist as “a political being constantly alert to the horrifying, passionate or pleasing events in the world, shaping himself completely in their image.” Picasso’s definition of an artist may hold true, but artists today...
by Justin Askenazy and Brooke Fowler | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Army Women’s Foundation hosted its 11th annual hall of fame induction and scholarship awards reception on March 7, 2019 to honor the service of exceptional female army soldiers. Honorees included Lauran Glover, Clara Adams-Ender and a group of World...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The six senators are running for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president are on the campaign trail railing against big corporations in Brooklyn and pumping iron in Iowa, but they also are creating legislative records in the Senate that often will...
by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for 2020 to eliminate a program that offers government and nonprofit workers a way to have their federal education loan forgiven would make it harder for nonprofits and government agencies to attract employees,...
by Samantha Handler | Mar 20, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Most of the Supreme Court justices Wednesday said they will consider the history of racial bias in jury selection by the prosecutor in a Mississippi man’s murder conviction and death sentence. Justice Elena Kagan strongly questioned whether Mississippi...
