by James Pollard | Mar 1, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — The last time Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar saw the late Sen. John McCain, who was the Republicans’ 2008 presidential nominee, he gave her some important advice. Speaking in a ballroom filled with North Carolina...
by Khadija Islow | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – India is headed toward active genocide if it cannot stop the violence against Muslims and protesters who oppose the country’s new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, the head of a Muslim rights advocacy group said Wednesday. Riots have swept New Delhi...
by Martha Castro | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is destroying sacred indigenous sites while federal agencies fail to properly consult tribes, experts on indigenous rights and tribal members told a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday. “For us, [the...
by Alex Moore | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Wealth inequality in the United States now resembles the massive wealth gap of the Great Depression, with the top 0.1% of today’s wealthiest Americans holding more than 20% of the nation’s wealth, and the future of working class families is...
by Evan Ochsner | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The head of the Senate Appropriations Committee said Tuesday that the U.S. should spend more than the $2.5 billion proposed by President Donald Trump to address the coronavirus as it continues to spread worldwide. So far, 53 Americans are infected with...
by Cassidy Wang | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON –The unprecedented number of injunctions issued by federal district judges during the Trump administration, prohibiting the government from enforcing laws, invigorated Republican senators to demand curbing this authority on Tuesday, but Democrats said...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 24, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
LAS VEGAS – More than 80 employees at Harrah’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino used their lunch break on Saturday to vote in Nevada’s Democratic caucus. State party officials use such examples as proof that the caucus system worked, but critics say too many voters still...
by Alex Moore and Evan Ochsner | Feb 24, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada caucuses had a starkly different demographic landscape from the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states largely bereft of racial and ethnic diversity. And while the result was the same – a third win for Bernie Sanders, this time the...
by James Pollard | Feb 20, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg entered Wednesday night’s debate pitching the race as a two-person contest between himself and Sen. Bernie Sanders—and that of the two, the former New York City mayor is best equipped to defeat President...
by Suzy Vazquez and Cassidy Wang | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –A federal judge sentenced Roger Stone, a friend of President Donald Trump, to 40 months in jail after he was convicted of impeding a congressional investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, despite Trump’s tweets suggesting the...
by Alex Moore and Zamone Perez | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—The Census Bureau has not done enough to quell fears that responses to the nationwide survey will be used against people, especially undocumented immigrants and marginalized communities, faith leaders said on Tuesday at a summit where they were asked to...
by Rupa Palla | Feb 18, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Six Democratic presidential candidates will participate in Wednesday night’s debate in Nevada, with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg making his first debate appearance. The Democratic National Committee set two qualification thresholds:...
