by Brooke Fowler | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to pass an appropriations bill that would fund closed federal agencies but provide no money for the $5.7 billion border wall that President Donald Trump demanded in return for signing legislation to end the partial...
by Charlotte Walsh | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON–Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife, Bloomberg journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, were preparing to attend a surprise birthday party for Yeganeh’s mother when Iranian agents came to the building where the couple lived in Tehran. The agents,...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 20, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of women’s rights activists flooded the streets of cities across the U.S. for the third annual Women’s March. In Washington, the marchers not only advocated for women’s rights but for an end to the partial...
by Brooke Fowler | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House voted Thursday to continue sanctions on companies owned by Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch involved with interference in the 2016 U.S. election, which would block a controversial decision by President Donald Trump to remove the...
by Charlotte Walsh | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — With only 13 women Republicans in the House compared with 89 Democratic women, the GOP House leadership Thursday backed the launch of E-PAC, a political action committee created by GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik dedicated to elect more Republican women to...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 17, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is “deeply unpopular with women voters,” but they voted in the mid-terms based on candidates merit rather than to check Trump, a poll released in early December found. The post-November election poll, sponsored by American...
by Nirmal Mulaikal | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The House passed Wednesday $12.1 billion in emergency disaster aid to help recovery efforts from California’s wildfires, Hurricanes Florence and Michael, typhoons the Alaska earthquakes and Hawaii’s volcano eruption and earthquakes — and also would...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups, legal experts and former colleagues offered contradictory accounts of Attorney General nominee William Barr’s views and temperament during the second day of his Senate confirmation hearings – with civil rights leaders criticizing his...
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...
