by Mark Satter | Oct 31, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted mostly along party lines Thursday to formalize the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, opening the investigation to the public for the first time. The resolution, which passed 232-196,...
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by Mark Satter | Oct 29, 2019 | Featured, Military
WASHINGTON – The Government Accountability Office opened an investigation as a result of at least eight Army and Marine Corps training deaths that occurred so far in 2019, GAO and House Armed Services Committee officials confirmed Thursday. The investigation was...
by Mark Satter | Oct 24, 2019 | Health
WASHINGTON – Surgeon General Jerome Adams warned a Senate committee Thursday that efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in the U.S. fall short and laid out a new approach that would end the overprescription of addictive pills. “We still have an epidemic of...
by Mark Satter | Oct 22, 2019 | Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee grilled top Trump administration diplomats Tuesday on the impact of Turkey’s military incursion in northeast Syria, just as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was set to expire. Questioning led by Committee...
by Mark Satter | Oct 3, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps is preparing to make large structural changes to the way it trains soldiers and supports other branches of the military to meet the coming challenges of a global power struggle in the Pacific as China emerges as a top military power, the...
