by Geordan Tilley | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
[rev_slider alias=”friendsofireland”] WASHINGTON — Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny joined President Barack Obama at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon in the Capitol on Tuesday. It was Speaker Paul Ryan’s first time hosting the tradition. At the...
by Celena Chong | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Alan Gross said he only saw the sun for 20 minutes during the first year of being shuttered in a Cuban prison. Gross, 66, was a contractor under the U.S. Agency for International Development, tasked to improve Internet access within a single Jewish...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
[rev_slider alias=”puertorico”][/rev_slider] WASHINGTON — Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Broadway hit “Hamilton,” and several New York members of Congress offered a proposal Tuesday to fix a quirk in federal law that bars Puerto Rico from...
by Alex Duner | Mar 15, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Digital tools have shaped how the government stays accountable to the American people in 2016 On Tuesday at the Commerce Department, advocates for government openness said publishing data and maintaining electronic records are a driver of transparency and...
by Shane McKeon | Mar 14, 2016 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Henry Louis Gates was getting death threats. It was July 2009. Days earlier, the Harvard professor had returned home from China, where he was researching Yo-Yo Ma’s ancestry for a new documentary. When he got to his house in Cambridge, Mass., he...
by Geordan Tilley | Mar 8, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
WASHINGTON — Political analyst Charlie Cook said Tuesday he’s one of the last pundits to think New York mogul Donald Trump will not get the Republican nomination. “The Republican Party is quite screwed up,” Cook said, “but I don’t think they’re that screwed up.”...
by Ethan Cohen | Mar 7, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — David Farmer, a hunter who has lived in Portland, Maine, for 14 years, wants residents of his state be able to buy guns – but only after universal background checks on gun purchases and transfers. He’s part of a growing movement that has given up on...
by Jacob Meschke | Mar 7, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The political attitudes of students on Michigan college campuses tell two tales. The first is familiar to those following the Democratic presidential campaigns: outspoken fans of Hillary Clinton are a rarity, and support for Bernie Sanders is...
by Jacob Meschke | Mar 7, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
[rev_slider alias=”detroit”] DETROIT — The remaining four candidates for the Republican party’s presidential nomination battled Thursday in the 11th GOP debate, but the first to be held in Michigan. Before the event began, protesters gathered on...
by Drew Gerber | Mar 2, 2016 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court should rule against a Texas law imposing stricter requirements for abortion providers as a violation of the “undue burden” standard because the law’s provisions are not medically necessary and make abortions less accessible, a lawyer...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Mar 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
HAMPTON, Va. — Some young black voters in Virginia say they see Sen. Bernie Sanders as a candidate who wants their votes while Hillary Clinton seems to think they’ll vote for her just because their parents would. At Hampton University and Norfolk State...
by Mariana Alfaro | Mar 2, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
RICHMOND, Va. – As TV screens announced a Hillary Clinton win over Bernie Sanders in Virginia on Super Tuesday, some of the Democrats filling a bar in the state capital Richmond cheered; and some didn’t. But they all agreed that their party’s primary candidates’...
