by Annie Klingenberg and Allison Novelo | Oct 14, 2021 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Some oil companies have evaded paying for their inactive offshore infrastructures, and American taxpayers could find themselves in hot water if they wind up with the clean-up costs, some lawmakers and experts agreed on Thursday. “Without stronger...
by Julia Mueller | Oct 14, 2021 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Once an example of democratic success in the Middle East, Tunisia has faltered in the decade since the Arab Spring, experts said at a Thursday hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global...
by Ariel Gans | Oct 14, 2021 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Workers and consumers alike are experiencing supply chain issues, but economic experts and industry professionals warned Congress to tread carefully at a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing Thursday. Over a year and a half into the COVID-19...
by Zoya Mirza | Oct 13, 2021 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON –– The alarming increase in gun and organ trafficking and the illegal sales of counterfeit pharmaceuticals made through online platforms underscores the imperative to update and draft new cyberspace laws, according to an organized crime expert. “Our laws...
by Julia Mueller | Oct 13, 2021 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Conflicting privacy and public interests dominated oral arguments Wednesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a Freedom of Information Act case brought against the Department of Justice for its redaction of the Mueller Report. The...
by Cristobella Durrette | Oct 13, 2021 | Politics
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices differed Wednesday on whether defense counsel made a compelling argument to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. “At a trial, you don’t have these mini trials. If a person is on trial for murder...
