After False Starts, D.C. Convoy Excites Supporters But Merely Perplexes Commuters: Photos

by Zachary Miller | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — The arrival of several truck convoys in the nation’s capital has, so far, failed to live up to the hype. In February, anti-vaccine and anti-mask protestors used cars and trucks to blockade Ottawa and a nearby major shipping highway. Similar protests...

TRANS RIGHTS POST-SOTU: TEXAS COURT, HHS AND ADVOCATES RESPOND

by Jenny Huh | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Living, State of the Union

WASHINGTON – A day after President Biden’s State of the Union, a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents for providing gender-affirming health care to...

TABLING “TPS”: DEMOCRATS CALL FOR SUPPORT AMID LACK OF DESIGNATION FROM BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

by Ali Bianco | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON – As countless Ukrainians begin to leave their homes following the Russian invasion, conversations have spurred around the Capitol about President Biden potentially designating the country for Temporary Protected Status. All the while, countless Central...

Republicans respond to Rep. Greene’s raucous rant

by Zachary Kessel | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union

WASHINGTON – While Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) dinged President Joe Biden on issues salient to the American people like crime, education and inflation in the official GOP response to the State of the Union, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took a different approach...

Despite progress, VA still has 400,000 backlogged claims

by Lauren Caruba | Feb 3, 2014 | Health & Science

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs cut its backlog of hundreds of thousands of disability claims by nearly one-third last year but is still struggling to modernize an outdated processing system, a report released Monday by the Iraq and Afghanistan...