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by Jeff A. Chamer | Jul 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Housing rights advocates, community leaders, and faith-based organizations across the country are scrambling to provide resources and funding to thousands at risk of losing their housing when the federal eviction moratorium ends on Aug. 1. The...
by Hazel Tang | Jul 28, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON–Republican members held a press conference the morning of July 27 before the first day of committee hearings on investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. House Minority Leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., criticized Democrats’ choices...
by Mark Dovich | Jul 21, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans alike condemned Turkey’s 2017 purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system at Wednesday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S.-Turkey relations. The S-400 missile system, originally developed...
by Saeed Abdullah | Jul 21, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks urged a House Armed Services subcommittee Tuesday to give the military the authority to change its justice system by removing prosecution of sexual assault and related crimes from the military chain of command...
by Hazel Tang | Jul 16, 2021 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — America’s immigration restrictions limiting visas for highly skilled workers are forcing such workers to go to other countries and causing a brain drain in the U.S., advocates and the head of a House subcommittee said Tuesday. “If we want to compete...
by Saeed Abdullah | Jul 16, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan threatens the essential rights of Afghan women to education, healthcare, employment and participation in politics, and some activists could be in danger from the Taliban, according to several experts...
