by Patty Nieberg | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump for deriding Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony about her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, calling his behavior inappropriate and...
by Brock Hall | Oct 3, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case that calls into question a 30-year-precedent that a plaintiff cannot file a takings claim in federal court until all state court options have been exhausted. The case began when the...
by Jessica A. Floyd | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Census Bureau told a Senate committee on Wednesday that he would be “independent from improper influences” in conducting the 2020 census, which for the first time in decades will ask whether people...
by Bryan Wood | Oct 3, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Tuesday posed the idea of expanding the reason that a person cannot be executed to include severe dementia in a case involving a 68-year-old Alabama man with dementia who murdered a police officer 33 years ago. “We...
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...
by Charlene Zhang | Aug 28, 2018 | Economy, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – White House Advisor Ivanka Trump addressed the Inter-American Council for Integral Development of the Organization of American States on sustainable financial empowerment in the Americas Monday afternoon. “Women are in fact one of the greatest...
