by Maryam Saleh | Jan 27, 2017 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – For 32 years, Chicago has welcomed undocumented immigrants. The policy began with Mayor Harold Washington, who forbade local authorities from asking immigrants their legal status. Now, the city vows to continue his legacy and keep its “sanctuary city”...
by Maryam Saleh | Jan 21, 2017 | Inauguration
WASHINGTON—A group of Women’s March protesters’ pushed aside gray metal barricades on Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday afternoon to get closer to the White House, leading to an hour-long standoff with Secret Service agents and police officers. Dozens of law enforcement...
by Maryam Saleh | Jan 21, 2017 | Inauguration
WASHINGTON — Guinevere Thomas and her high school friends decided to take a quiet moment at church to reflect upon the day before joining hundreds of thousands of people converging on the Women’s March on Washington. “Fighting for women’s rights but also black...
by Maryam Saleh | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured, Inauguration
Washington—Police fired pepper spray, tear gas, and flash grenades at clusters of protesters who smashed windows and lit fires as they marched in downtown Washington on Friday, hours after Donald Trump took office as the 45th President of the United States. Police in...
by Maryam Saleh | Jan 19, 2017 | Politics
WASHINGTON–South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Donald Trump’s nominee to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that the country must speak with a single voice in fighting the Islamic State, but she...
