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Tensions were High as Representatives Debated Allegations Against the Southern Poverty Law Center
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday examining claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center had funded the very hate groups the center aims to dismantle. Tensions were high as Republicans and Democrats fired back at each other....
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Tensions were High as Representatives Debated Allegations Against the Southern Poverty Law Center
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday examining claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center had funded the very hate groups the center aims to dismantle. Tensions were high as Republicans and Democrats fired back at each other....
Research funding in limbo after Trump fires National Science Board
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's dismissal of every member of the National Science Board has thrown into limbo nearly $9 billion in congressionally appropriated funds for research into science and technology. The board oversees the National Science Foundation...
Election Officials Warn of Rising Threats As Security Funding Declines Ahead of Midterms
WASHINGTON – Election officials warned lawmakers on Wednesday that threats against election workers and voting systems are escalating even as federal funding for election security remains far below 2020 levels, posing risks ahead of the 2026 midterms. In 2020,...
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‘Women Will Die’: How the Mifepristone Ban Will Affect Women across the Country
WASHINGTON–Maternal health advocates and a Virginia state legislator warned that women’s health would suffer even in states that allow abortions if the Supreme Court fails to block a ban on mail deliveries of mifepristone, a drug used in abortions. Jennifer McClellan,...
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‘Women Will Die’: How the Mifepristone Ban Will Affect Women across the Country
WASHINGTON–Maternal health advocates and a Virginia state legislator warned that women’s health would suffer even in states that allow abortions if the Supreme Court fails to block a ban on mail deliveries of mifepristone, a drug used in abortions. Jennifer McClellan,...
Bipartisan Support for Increases to the ‘Indian Health Service’s’ FY27 Budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. – There was rare bipartisan support to increase funding for the Indian Health Service’s (IHS) proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 on Thursday in the House Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related...
Amicus attorneys believe Monsanto has a leg up in Supreme Court bid to undercut 60,000 Roundup cases
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to lean towards ruling for Monsanto during oral arguments last week in a pesticide label dispute that could undercut more than 60,000 cancer patients' lawsuits accusing the company of failing to warn them about Roundup...
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War in Iran showcases Pentagon’s break from public affairs norms
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon's top officials conducted far fewer press briefings and interviews during a period of major combat operations than the department has in decades, a Medill News Service review of five previous U.S. military flashpoints showed. Instead,...
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War in Iran showcases Pentagon’s break from public affairs norms
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon's top officials conducted far fewer press briefings and interviews during a period of major combat operations than the department has in decades, a Medill News Service review of five previous U.S. military flashpoints showed. Instead,...
Scientific report on ‘Golden Dome’ program counters Trump’s claims
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's move to build a national missile defense system would leave millions of Americans vulnerable to nuclear attack despite the program's exorbitant cost, the author of a new scientific report said at a press conference Tuesday...
U.S. Central Command chief: Iran’s military ‘significantly degraded’
WASHINGTON -- The war in Iran has "significantly degraded" the Iranian regime's military, the commander of U.S. military operations in the Middle East told lawmakers Thursday, flatly rejecting reports that most of Iran's missile stockpiles and launchers remained...
Latest in Social Justice
Tensions were High as Representatives Debated Allegations Against the Southern Poverty Law Center
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday examining claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center had funded the very hate groups the center aims to dismantle. Tensions were high as Republicans and Democrats fired back at each other....
Latest in Social Justice
Tensions were High as Representatives Debated Allegations Against the Southern Poverty Law Center
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing last Wednesday examining claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center had funded the very hate groups the center aims to dismantle. Tensions were high as Republicans and Democrats fired back at each other....
Democrats and Republicans express bipartisan concern regarding loan caps for graduate nursing degrees
WASHINGTON — Of the five minutes Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla, had to question Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon about the 2027 Department of Education budget, he spent four of them expressing his concerns about how a new rule creating a federal cap on student...
Bipartisan Support for Increases to the ‘Indian Health Service’s’ FY27 Budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. – There was rare bipartisan support to increase funding for the Indian Health Service’s (IHS) proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 on Thursday in the House Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related...
Latest in Business & Tech
Kalshi Wants to Help Americans Hedge Risk. Lawmakers Say It’s Just Gambling with a Different Name
WASHINGTON – Prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket are facing mounting pressure in Congress as lawmakers debate whether the platforms should be treated as financial exchanges or gambling operations. The platforms allow users to bet on real-world...
Senators eye crackdown on prediction markets advertising to minors
WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- As sports betting and prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket grow in popularity, U.S. senators on Wednesday weighed the need to regulate use of the platforms by minors. One main issue senators raised during a hearing by the...
Ahead of Trump-Xi summit, Japanese lawmakers urge US to stay focused on US-Japan partnership in AI, critical minerals
As President Donald Trump prepared for his meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping in Beijing next week, Japanese lawmakers urged the U.S. to remain focused on the U.S.-Japan alliance in artificial intelligence and critical minerals.
Latest in Immigration
DACA recipients fear job loss, deportation as they face renewal delays
Sen. Dick Durbin said that 32,000 people have lost their DACA status largely as a result of delays.
Protesters outside the White House call for ending detention for migrant families, kids
WASHINGTON — Dozens of people gathered on a sandy lot in front of the White House construction zone Tuesday evening, carrying posters peppered with monarch butterflies and unfurling massive banners reading “Set kids free.” The butterflies symbolized immigrants...
Supreme Court hears arguments on permanent resident parole case
WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday on how much evidence of a crime U.S. border control agents need to impose parole a legal permanent resident re-entering the country. In Blanche vs. Lau, the justices examined when immigration...
Latest in Environment
Congress grills officials about the Potomac River sewage spill
Months after a collapsed pipe pushed nearly 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the river, residents say the area still smells.
Senators worry about proposed FY 2027 budget cuts to U.S. Forest Service amid active fire season
Senators balked at proposed budget cuts to the world-leading U.S. Forest Service, including the complete elimination of all forest research funding, during a subcommittee meeting late last month.
NOAA Defends Cuts to Research and Climate Monitoring at Budget Hearing
A key Republican joined Democrats in pushing back against the Trump administration’s proposal to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s research and data collection programs at a House environment subcommittee hearing Tuesday. NOAA requested a 26...
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