by Hannah Farrow | Jun 27, 2020 | Featured, Politics
Along with lions, tigers and bears, Congress may make monkey trading illegal across state borders. The Captive Primate Safety Act was introduced during the U.S. House Water, Oceans, and Wildlife hearing in Washington on Thursday morning. It aims to amend the Lacey Act...
by Arnab Mondal | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, National Security
The Air Force does not have enough pilots and operators to meet its staffing targets for unmanned aircrafts, causing mental and physical health problems for existing personnel, a Government Accountability Office report said. Since 9/11, there has been a...
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by Shirin Ali | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Several Democratic senators, including former presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, grilled Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan on reports that unaccompanied migrant children are not being appropriately screened to determine if they are...
by Nicole Girten | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Politics
U.S. Rep. Ross Spano emphasized holding China accountable for the spread of COVID-19 during a telephone town hall Thursday night. “We’ve had 127,000 folks in our nation that now have died,” Spano said in response to a caller from Lakeland. “In large part it’s a result...
by Anabel Mendoza | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Sen. Kamala Harris demanded Thursday that the head of Customs and Border Protection explain the rationale behind his agency’s deployment of border agents to anti-police brutality protests and marches across the country. “Given your mission to focus on our borders, why...
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by Amy Sokolow | Jun 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured
The Trump administration is “more terrified of transparency and accountability” than the COVID-19 pandemic that has created a crisis in America’s nursing homes, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee said Thursday as doctors, nurses and family...
