by Meaghan Downey | Nov 29, 2023 | Politics
WASHINGTON – After passing bipartisan gun legislation last year, senators clashed Tuesday over the next steps in addressing gun violence. Democrats had called the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to address what they called a public health crisis caused by guns....
by Meaghan Downey | Nov 16, 2023 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality, Politics
WASHINGTON — In a powerful testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, Talia Dror, a junior at Cornell University and the daughter of a Jewish-Iranian immigrant, explained how she never imagined that the antisemitism her family faced in Iran...
by Meaghan Downey | Nov 2, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Less than a week before Virginia’s legislative elections, experts at the American Enterprise Institute’s Election Watch 2024 panel determined that Virginia’s off-year-election would likely carry no predictive value for the 2024 general election. “I would...
by Meaghan Downey | Oct 25, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Members of the House Subcommittee on National Security, Border, and Foreign Affairs clashed Wednesday over whether religious persecution is only a problem outside of the United States. Witnesses were called to testify on the persecution of Christians in...
by Meaghan Downey | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans failed on Tuesday to leave the chaos of the last two weeks behind, after Jim Jordan of Ohio fell short of the votes needed to win the race to be the next speaker of the House. Thirteen days after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker of...
