by Jakob Lazzaro & Caroline Vakil | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices questioned the constitutionality of a California law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose that they do not provide abortion services and educate women on where those services are available during oral arguments...
by Syd Stone | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee members on Tuesday called for the Violence Against Women Act to be reauthorized but with several additions to strengthen protections for diverse communities and speed up analyses of DNA. The original 1994 law provided federal...
by Anna Laffrey | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Six months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, 270 schools are operating without power, families are leaving the island and the federal government hasn’t done enough to help children, several Democratic congressional leaders said Tuesday. At least...
by Erica Snow & Syd Stone | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
Jami Averwater called her father during the second week of law school with a dilemma — she couldn’t identify a single other Republican in her classroom. When she did acknowledge she was a Republican, she said, her classmates at Belmont University in Nashville...
by Renzo Downey | Mar 15, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON–White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders doubled down Thursday on President Donald Trump’s claim this week that the U.S. has a trade deficit with Canada. In an audio file obtained by the Washington Post, Trump told fundraiser attendees Wednesday...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Mar 15, 2018 | Featured, Politics
CANONSBURG, Pa. —House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Democrat Conor Lamb’s narrow win in Pennsylvania’s special election is “a tremendous victory” and said Lamb’s repeated statements that he would not vote for Pelosi as the party’s House...
by Libby Berry | Mar 15, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – More than two years before the 2020 presidential election, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, who has been a vocal Trump administration critic and is retiring at the end of the year, has a message for Republicans: not Donald Trump, no matter the cost. Speaking...
by Catherine Kim | Mar 15, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON –– Conor Lamb’s surprising win in a Pennsylvania special election for a House seat may be a sign that the key to success for Democrats running in red districts is distancing themselves from the national party. Lamb won against Republican Rick Saccone in a...
by Paola de Varona | Mar 14, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students from area schools walked out of their campuses in droves Wednesday morning to demand action on gun violence, some traveling to downtown Washington to protest outside of the White House and the Capitol. Combining a solemn...
by Caroline Vakil | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
In a western Pennsylvania district that President Donald Trump won by 19 points, experts says there’s a good chance that Democratic women, and by some GOP female voters, could turn out in large enough numbers to boost Democrat Conor Lamb to a seat in Congress in...
by Priyanka Godbole | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Action, accountability and training starting at top leadership levels are crucial first steps toward combating sexual harassment and creating safe and fair newsrooms, two former journalists who founded Press Forward said Tuesday. Launched in...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — Republican Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb are facing off Tuesday to represent Pennsylvania’s 18th district, a place where no Democrats even bothered to run in the last two cycles and President Trump won by 20 points in 2016. Polls show the two...
