by Bailey Williams | Feb 11, 2015 | Living
By Bailey Williams WASHINGTON–House Republicans pressed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro Wednesday to admit that the Federal Housing Administration doesn’t have enough capital reserves, but Castro was adamant that the mortgage insurer was on...
by Olivia Marcus | Feb 11, 2015 | Business, Politics
By Olivia Marcus WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., turned red with anger Wednesday. “You talk about waterboarding, this is waterboarding at its worst,” he said. But Kelly wasn’t talking about torture. He wasn’t even at a...
by Jesse Kirsch | Feb 11, 2015 | Living
By Jesse Kirsch WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder presented 22 public servants with the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Wednesday. The honorees include an FBI team, which participated in a 2013 Alabama kidnapping rescue mission....
by Tara Longardner | Feb 9, 2015 | Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – Residents of the nation’s capital voted overwhelmingly in November to legalize marijuana, but the fate of the initiative is now in the hands of a Republican-controlled Congress. Without congressional authorization, the legalization issue would be...
by Tara Longardner | Jan 28, 2015 | Living
WASHINGTON– For the ninth consecutive year, more freedom has been lost than found in countries worldwide, an advocacy group said Wednesday. Washington-based Freedom House is an independent, nonpolitical watchdog organization that’s led by former senior...