by Heena Srivastava | Jan 15, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Attorney General nominee William P. Barr testified Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would let special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation continue to its conclusion, responding to Democrats’ concerns that some of his past...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 10, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House Republicans should support funding the Interior Department in a Friday vote so that it can reopen because they originally proposed it. While Republicans proposed the legislation, Pelosi said she believes...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The United States and France will continue to work together to counter terrorism in Iran, stop the use of nuclear weapons in Syria and put pressure on North Korea, U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 17, 2018 | Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration needs to work with its allies in the Middle East to counter terrorist networks supported and funded by Iran that pose a threat to the U.S., a senior scholar from the Center for American Progress told a House Homeland Security...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 11, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Once again asserting that Cambridge Analytica and other companies improperly obtained millions of Facebook users’ data, Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday at his second congressional hearing in two days that he was among Facebook users whose data was...
by Libby Berry & Paola de Varona | Apr 3, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Eighth-grader Cailyn Moreno can’t wait to tell her mom about the exciting news she just received: “I got my grade up 15 percent,” exclaims the 14-year-old from Anne Arundel County. “Fifteen percent in two days!” It’s a Wednesday afternoon, but she’ll have...
by Kristina Karisch | Mar 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — It appears likely that Congress can prevent a “perfect storm” of problems that could jeopardize the accuracy of the 2020 census by giving the Census Bureau a crucial $1.3 billion funding hike. An inaccurate census means more than a mistaken count of...
by Paola de Varona | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday that funds the federal government through Sept. 30. Now the Senate faces a Friday deadline to pass the bill to avoid a government shutdown, which would be the third such shutdown this year. The...
by Libby Berry & Maggie Harden | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to pass a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill that would fund the government until September. The bill includes several controversial provisions, including increased funding for border security and no long-term fix for DACA...
by Maggie Harden | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
POLITICAL COMMENTATORS are calling 2018 the “year of the woman” based on the record-breaking number of women running for Congress this year. According to estimates from the Center for American Women and Politics, 575 women have declared their intention to...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 21, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer said Wednesday he hopes Congress will pass a resolution to protect “dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children ahead of the massive annual spending bill that must be passed by Friday to avoid a...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 21, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices had tough questions for both parties Wednesday during oral arguments in a case that could determine judicial jurisdiction over Indian tribes. The case concerns a parcel of land in Washington state purchased by the Upper Skagit Indian...
