by Bryan Wood | Mar 13, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats reiterated their objections to the massive cuts the White House proposed this week to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, in a Budget Committee hearing on Wednesday. “The president’s budget proposal should be discarded immediately. We...
by Bryan Wood | Mar 13, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission is “overbuilding” rural United States in its efforts to improve broadband access in states like North Dakota and South Dakota, according to telecommunications companies in rural service areas who...
by Bryan Wood | Feb 28, 2019 | Topics
WASHINGTON — One woman in Washington, D.C. believes that she can end the Cameroon crisis and she’ll do it almost single-handedly. “All I need,” she says, “is more visibility.” Sylvie Bello moved from Cameroon to New Jersey with her dad in 1998. Although she’s...
by Bryan Wood | Feb 1, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON – More than 14 LGBT people were targeted by Chechen police on suspicion of homosexuality in the last two months, some detained for weeks in a government basement, and subjected to torture during what the Russian LGBT Network calls a “new wave of mass...
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by Bryan Wood | Jan 24, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON – A Republican and Democratic senator have called for broader sanctions on Chechen officials accused of carrying out a second wave of LGBT “purges,” though experts say the White House is unlikely to support such an effort. After the first round of the...
