by Charlotte Walsh | Mar 7, 2019 | Featured, Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge Thursday sentenced Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to less prison time than expected — 47 months — and three years of supervised release for his conviction on eight tax and bank fraud charges. Of the six former Trump advisers...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 7, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Democrats and Republicans agree that reauthorizing the landmark 1994 Violence Against Women Act is a priority but disagree on whether to pass the bill with major changes. Ranking Member John Ratcliffe, R-TX., called a request for increased resources and new...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that House Democrats’ sweeping government and election reform bill will not be debated or voted on in the Senate. Speaking at a news conference with other Republicans, McConnell said, “This is a...
by Charlotte Walsh | Mar 6, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Politics, Technology
WASHINGTON — House and Senate Democrats Wednesday introduced legislation to restore net neutrality protections undone by the Trump administration. The three-page “Save the Internet Act” would restore a 2015 Obama-era order allowing the Federal Communications...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON –– The Department of Homeland Security has been regularly “misleading” Congress and the public by denying it was separating thousands of children from parents at the border and failing to give the House Homeland Security Committee documents related to the...
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A House Judiciary subcommittee debated President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration Thursday — the first congressional hearing on the National Emergencies Act in more than 40 years. The hearing examined Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration, which...
by Samantha Handler | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed to favor allowing a 40-foot cross commemorating those who died in World War I to remain in a public park, leaning toward a conclusion that it is a secular symbol honoring war dead rather than a violation of the...
by Henry Erlandson and Charlotte Walsh | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, told a House committee Wednesday that he committed several federal crimes at the direction of the president, admitted lying in the past but swore that he is neither a liar nor a “bad man.”...
by Brooke Fowler | Feb 26, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – After months of uncertainty, President Donald Trump signed a federal spending bill for the 2019 fiscal year last week. A renewal for the Violence Against Women Act, which expired in September, wasn’t included. But even though the law has ended,...
by Leslie Bonilla | Feb 26, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Top Democrats and Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee brushed off talk of the Green New Deal at a hearing Tuesday on how infrastructure could mitigate climate change. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., said that although he...
by Charlotte Walsh | Feb 25, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — He cracked a few jokes at the beginning of his speech, but comedian Jon Stewart appeared on Capitol Hill Monday with a serious message: it’s time to provide permanent help for 9/11 first responders who have become ill or died after exposure to...
by Leslie Bonilla | Feb 21, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Anti-Jewish sentiment exists on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum, but many people only recognize it in their opponents, a leading Holocaust and Jewish history scholar said Thursday. “A lot of progressives think the issue is Israel,”...
