by Meaghan Downey | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans failed on Tuesday to leave the chaos of the last two weeks behind, after Jim Jordan of Ohio fell short of the votes needed to win the race to be the next speaker of the House. Thirteen days after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker of...
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by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The highest ranking general of the U.S. Army in the Pacific stressed the importance of joint exercises with allies in the region to keep deterring China after the Israel-Hamas war erupted. Gen. Charles Flynn, the commanding general of the U.S. Army...
by Phillip Powell | Oct 11, 2023 | Featured, Politics
In a closed-door meeting Wednesday, U.S. House Republicans narrowly chose Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) as their nominee for the next speaker of the House by a vote of 113-99. But with the Republican caucus still sharply divided after the recent ouster of former Speaker...
by Meaghan Downey | Oct 11, 2023 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Majority Leader Steve Scalise emerged from the Republican House Conference’s closed-door vote Wednesday as the party’s nominee to run for speaker of the House. Scalise of Louisiana secured the nomination over House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio,...
by Kelsey Baker | Oct 11, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – National security experts sounded the alarm on Tuesday about the risks posed by Chinese tech company Huawei, and its growing presence in Mexico. Huawei, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and 5G network providers, is viewed by some...
by Nicole Norman | Oct 11, 2023 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Abortion opponents have complicated the reauthorization of a 2003 HIV/AIDS law that had long garnered bipartisan support. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, originally signed by President George W. Bush, had been renewed three times and...
