by Charlotte Walsh | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — During the recent 35-day partial government shutdown, 22 airports operated at full strength — those that use private security agencies instead of Transportation Safety Administration employees. The federal program that allows them to choose private...
by Charlotte Walsh | Jan 31, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved what could become a forceful Congressional break with President Trump’s foreign policy. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. previously proposed an amendment objecting to Trump’s plan to withdraw troops from...
by Charlotte Walsh | Jan 30, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Legislators began negotiating funding for the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday. The bicameral conference committee has two weeks to reach a compromise before the stopgap government funding bill expires Feb. 15. However, the president tweeted...
by Samantha Handler and Charlotte Walsh | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON —Roger Stone walked into federal court Tuesday as a crowd erupted into chants of both “Roger Stone did nothing wrong” and “lock him up.” Once inside, he pleaded innocent to charges brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller in connection with...
by Nirmal Mulaikal | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — In a ceremony to honor Chinese-American World War II veterans, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that recognition of the Chinese-American service in the armed forces is long overdue. The ceremony comes at the heels of the bipartisan...
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...
