by Bryan Wood & Patty Nieberg | Oct 2, 2018 | National Security
LUMBERTON, N.C. — Two years ago, when John Givens was driven from his home by Hurricane Matthew, he went to a shelter and was given plenty of food and clothes to carry him through the crisis. This week, Givens is once again in a shelter due to flooding from...
by Patty Nieberg | Oct 2, 2018 | National Security
WASHINGTON – America’s declining commercial nuclear industry may be a threat to national security and reduce U.S. authority to influence nuclear safety and anti-proliferation globally, an international security expert said Tueday. “The time for discussion is over. The...
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 Brock Hall | Oct 2, 2018 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Seema Verma, the head of Medicare and Medicaid, defended the Trump administration’s healthcare policies and criticized the idea of Medicare for All during a public interview at an event Tuesday morning. “The administration is often...
by Dorothy Mills-Gregg | Oct 2, 2018 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday backed a bill to allow the Forest Service to pick a couple of lawsuits that it could move out of the courts and into arbitration, but Democrats strongly opposed the idea, saying...
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...
