by Bryan Wood | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Leaders from several Olympic sports told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that they need more money to adequately address sexual abuse allegations from their athletes. “Monsters are often in plain sight,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said...
by Patty Nieberg | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump for deriding Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony about her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, calling his behavior inappropriate and...
by Jessica A. Floyd | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Census Bureau told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he would be “independent from improper influences” in conducting the 2020 census, which for the first time in decades will ask whether people...
by Daniel Grimes & Patty Nieberg | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Artificial Intelligence cannot eliminate human involvement in technology because people will have to create ways to fight back against efforts to threaten national cybersecurity, experts said at The Atlantic Festival on Wednesday. “Humans will...
by Brock Hall | Oct 2, 2018 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – The head of Medicare and Medicaid called Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal “absolutely lousy” Tuesday and said instead that Medicaid recipients need incentives to work their way out of poverty. Seema Verma defended the Trump administration’s...
by Bryan Wood | Oct 2, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday from lawyers trying to stop Alabama’s planned execution of an elderly prisoner with memory loss so severe he is unable to recall the murder he was convicted of committing. Vernon Madison, 68, was sentenced to...
