by Bryan Lowry | Nov 4, 2013 | National Security, Topics
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs questioned officials from the agencies in charge of issuing security clearances on how Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter, was granted access to a military site despite his history of brushes with the...
by Bryan Lowry | Oct 30, 2013 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – More than a half-million Arkansans relying on the federal food stamps program will see their benefits cut in November by about five percent. Nationwide, about 47 million Americans will experience cuts. The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or...
by Bryan Lowry | Oct 24, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Failures in the foster care system put children in Texas and across the nation at greater risk of falling into the sex trade, activists and lawmakers asserted Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Child welfare advocates and U.S. House members from both parties told...
by Bryan Lowry | Oct 16, 2013 | Politics
WASHINGTON – As the debt ceiling clock ticked, news of a compromise solution to both increase the debt ceiling and end a 16-day partial government shutdown broke midday on Wednesday. But House Republicans were in no rush to say yes to a deal. Outside the Capitol a...
by Bryan Lowry | Oct 16, 2013 | Education
WASHINGTON – For the second time in less than a year, the Supreme Court on Tuesday revisited the issue of affirmative action in college applications, hearing oral arguments on whether a state’s voters can pass a law barring public universities from using race as a...
