by Heena Srivastava | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a vote set for Tuesday on recommending the Senate confirm Attorney General nominee William Barr because Democrats wanted to air fears that Barr would compromise the Mueller investigation. Such delays have...
by Heena Srivastava | Jan 24, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Senate on Thursday voted against President Donald Trump’s proposal to end the shutdown and build the border wall as well as a Democratic measure for short-term funding to reopen government while seeking a compromise on border security. The...
by Henry Erlandson | Jan 24, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Some House Democrats on Thursday criticized the Interior Department for bringing furloughed workers back to their jobs without pay to continue processing oil and gas leasing and permits. California Rep. Alan Lowenthal asserted that the Bureau of Ocean...
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...
