![Pentagon says Raqqa 90 percent clear, despite reports of ISIS’ defeat]()
by Ricky Zipp | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – More than 90 percent of Raqqa has been cleared of ISIS forces and 350 ISIS fighters have surrendered in the last week as operations by the U.S.-led coalition continue in the self-proclaimed capitol of the Islamic State, a military spokesman said Tuesday....
by Oyin Falana & Gerald Harris | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, Health, Politics
WASHINGTON – The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate health committee reached a deal Tuesday that would provide a two-year extension of federal health care payments to insurers to help reduce premiums for low-income earners in an effort to stabilize the health...
![New approach to sovereign debt restructuring needed, bankruptcy law expert says]()
by Elizabeth Strassner | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Current approaches to restructuring nations’ sovereign debt are inadequate, because they don’t account for systemic risk and rely too much on the International Monetary Fund and similar institutions to bail out debtor nations, a bankruptcy law expert said...
by Oyin Falana | Oct 13, 2017 | Featured, National Security
Marines awarded medals to five retired military dogs — four Labrador retrievers and a German shepherd — for serving “with distinction” in Afghanistan and Iraq. At the Wednesday evening ceremony in the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Hill, Marine Corps Lt....
![U.S.-Led Forces Clear ISIS From Much of Iraq]()
by Ricky Zipp | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured, National Security
At least 95 percent of the territory in Iraq that was previously controlled by Islamic State group forces has been cleared and some have even mentioned surrender as Iraqi Security Forces and U.S.-led coalition forces move closer to the complete liberation of the...
![GOP pushes tax reform as valuable for families, Dems assure opposite]()
by Kevin Schmidt | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan promoted the Republican tax reform plan on Thursday as a means to “lower tax rates at every income level for families,” but Democratic leaders fired back a few hours later, emphasizing that ending state and local...
