by Ricky Zipp | Oct 4, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Wednesday condemned the Republicans’ new tax and budget plans for cutting over a trillion dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funding. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an...
by Ricky Zipp | Sep 30, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – More than 75 percent of Raqqa has been cleared of ISIS forces, with only 400 to 800 of the terrorist group’s fighters left in the self-proclaimed capital of the so-called Islamic State caliphate, the chief spokesman for the military’s operation in Iraq...
by Ricky Zipp | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris grilled Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke Wednesday on whether customs officials will share information about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, but Duke said she didn’t know what the...
by Ricky Zipp | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A group of progressives gathered in Washington this weekend to try to lure Sen. Bernie Sanders to lead the creation of new political party, but the former Democratic presidential candidate was a no-show. Nevertheless, the group calling itself Draft Bernie...
by Ricky Zipp | Sep 26, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Ensuring a stable and independent military and police forces in Afghanistan is vital to U.S. strategic interests, and the U.S. official responsible for monitoring Afghanistan reconstruction believes progress is being made. But other foreign policy experts...
