by Noah Broder | Jul 13, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON ––Democrats and Republicans took opposing views on the value of coal to the U.S. economy Thursday, with Democrats calling for more environmental controls and Republicans stressing how essential coal is to the energy infrastructure. Democrats at the House...
by Noah Broder | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Friday’s edition of the House Judiciary Committee’s attempts to learn more about the implications of special counsel Robert Mueller report on 2016 election interference followed a familiar partisan path of Republican calls to move on and Democrats’...
by Kelly Rissman | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Yazmin Juárez, a Guatemalan asylum seeker, told a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee that her 19-month-old daughter died because of medical negligence at a federal detention center in Texas last year, causing several Democrats on the committee to...
by Yuru (Priscilla) Zhu | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A program that allows pre-checked, low-risk travelers to gain expedited entry into the United States is criticized for the lax vetting of applicants and verification procedures in a report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector...
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by Andre Earls | Jul 11, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON, July 11 — Senate Democrats introduced a bill Thursday calling for the end of family separations at the U.S. border with Mexico, as well as bolstering health and safety protections for children and families. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New...
by Holly Barker, Josephine Chu, Matt Reynolds & Kelly Rissman | Jul 8, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – More than 200 Trump supporters from Proud Boys, an alt-right group, and a larger number of counterprotesters confronted each other Saturday during a pro-Trump rally at the Freedom Plaza, and some minor scuffles broke out but no one was arrested. The...
