by Drew Gerber | Feb 29, 2016 | Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers said Monday they see the November election as a referendum on President Barack Obama’s signature health care law as their party seeks to offer voters alternative plans. Speaking before the annual Federation of American Hospitals...
by Alex Lederman | Feb 29, 2016 | Business, Politics
Matthew Petersen might have made the best financial decision of his life when he was fifteen. For $1, he bought the Star ’85 Chicago Bulls basketball card team set—a bundle that included a Michael Jordan rookie card. In 2016, that piece of cardboard is selling on eBay...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former President Bill Clinton tried to make a case Wednesday for why his wife is the best candidate for millennials struggling to get a foothold in the modern economy. Bill Clinton spoke to more than 150 people at a recreation center here in suburban...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 24, 2016 | Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former President Bill Clinton tried to make a case Wednesday for why his wife is the best candidate for millennials struggling to get a foothold in the modern economy. Bill Clinton spoke to more than 150 people at a recreation center here in...
by Erin Bacon | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON- In the midst of a legal battle between Apple and the FBI over bypassing encryption in a terrorist’s iPhone, two lawmakers are readying a bill to create a digital security commission that would help decide how the government investigates terrorism on...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers criticized President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the Department of Homeland Security over what they called “gimmicky” accounting. They called the $40.6 billion proposal “unrealistic” and “politically motivated,” because more than...
by Celena Chong | Feb 23, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest blasted Congress for failing to do its job Tuesday after Republican lawmakers snubbed President Barack Obama’s long-awaited plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Obama’s proposal, sent up to...
by Alex Duner | Feb 23, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Refusing to speculate on who President Barack Obama should nominate as a successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Samuel Alito said Tuesday that the nation’s highest court will continue to hum along with eight justices. “What’s...
by Erin Bacon | Feb 23, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — More than 13.1 million Latinos may cast votes in the primary and general elections this year, a record high that could be the difference in swing states such as Colorado, Nevada and Texas, according to a projection by the National Association for...
by Julia Jacobs | Feb 23, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
After three days reporting on Republican rallies in the lead-up to the South Carolina primary, one thing was clear: Trump was the chief news generator in the race. So on the eve of the South Carolina primary, three journalism students on the campaign trail decided to...
by Jasper Scherer | Feb 23, 2016 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON — Oil-producing Gulf Coast states would lose hundreds of millions of dollars if Congress approves the Interior Department’s budget request, which proposes a repeal of offshore oil and gas revenue-sharing allotted to four states —...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 23, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee used a State Department budget hearing Tuesday to grill Secretary of State John Kerry on far more than diplomatic finances. “I think that as former chair of this committee,” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., joked with...
