by Andrew Merica | Oct 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
ST. LOUIS – After a contentious second presidential debate, campaign officials, surrogates and reporters clamored into the spin room to discuss the candidates’ performances. U.S. News and World Report’s David Catanese gives us a look inside. (Andrew...
by Benjamin Din | Oct 5, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed to side with Duane Buck, a condemned man, during oral arguments Wednesday involving a decades-old Texas death-penalty case that included racially discriminatory references during court testimony. In 1997, Buck was sentenced to...
by Benjamin Din | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Worries – real or imagined – about a potentially rigged election may be eased by an international election observation mission focusing on the November General Election in the U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said publicly that he...
by Evelyn Wang | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Journalists and partisans who rose at an ungodly hour Tuesday morning expecting Julian Assange to release a hyped data dump that could possibly damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign instead received a two-hour long Wikileaks commercial. Their only consolation...
by Ross Krasner | Sep 28, 2016 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the first U.S ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years faced immediate opposition from GOP senators Wednesday, casting serious doubt on the long-shot attempt to get Senate confirmation of Jeffrey DeLaurentis....
by Andrew Merica | Sep 28, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The risk of hacking into voting systems on Election Day is remote and unlikely, some election officials and experts said Wednesday during a hearing that was briefly hijacked by Rep. Elijah Cummings’ impassioned criticism of Georgia Secretary of...
by Anna Waters | Sep 28, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan, a close observer of the 2016 campaign, still thinks about his unsuccessful race for vice president four years ago. “My 9th grade daughter was just elected high school vice president,” Ryan said. “Goes to show that at...
by Andrew Merica | Sep 27, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured, Politics
A representative from NextGen Climate Action Committee holds a sign with others bearing the phrase “Do Your Job,” the theme of Tuesday’s event. (Andrew Merica/MNS) Wade Henderson, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, emceed the event...
by Anna Waters | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – As many as 100 million people are expected to watch Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton face off for the first time in a televised debate Monday night. But a panel of bipartisan activists, moderated by Federal Election Commission Commissioner Ann Ravel, has...
by Dan Waldman | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and Democrats clashed again Monday over funding levels for Zika research, the Flint, Michigan water crisis and combating opioid addiction — a fight that has blocked a stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown on Friday....
by Ross Krasner | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A top Obama administration official teamed up with a Democratic lawmaker Monday to push for ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker defended the agreement, arguing it will result in “more jobs...
by Ethan Cohen | Apr 4, 2016 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama mentioned House Speaker Paul Ryan only once in his last State of the Union address – when he raised their shared goal of tackling poverty. The two men don’t agree on much. But the idea of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, a...
