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...
by Nirmal Mulaikal and Cameron Peters | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students and activists skipped school on Friday to protest in front of the Capitol as part of a worldwide student climate strike. The strike was one of more than 2,000 to take place around the world. According to organizer Greta Thunberg, a...
by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Living, Politics
WASHINGTON — Native American tribal governments need more power to properly investigate and prosecute cases of murdered and missing Native American women, tribal advocates told a House Natural Resources subcommittee Thursday. Tribal governments often have difficulty...
by Brooke Fowler | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The Senate voted 59-41 Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration of a national emergency, with 12 Republicans joining the 47 Democrats to send a message to the president that he had overstepped his authority. Trump said he declared...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics
In 2009, Carrboro, North Carolina Alderman Lydia Lavelle asked the state legislature for permission to include LGBTQ people in Carrboro’s laws banning housing discrimination. Lawmakers said no. North Carolina’s statewide anti-discrimination law does not include...
by Samantha Handler and Charlotte Walsh | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics, Topics
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Every four years, presidential hopefuls swarm the small state of New Hampshire, home to the nation’s first primary, And to its diners, where they must do what politicians do best: mingle. From pancake breakfasts to hamburgers to-go, diners...
