by Basma Amer & Loumay Alesali | Jul 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hollywood icon Jane Fonda joined forces with domestic workers Thursday to urge Congress to provide better protections against sexual harassment for in-home workers. “This is not a new thing for me to want to stand with women workers. When the MeToo...
by Loumay Alesali & Guilia Petroni | Jun 30, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The names of the Capital Gazette journalists killed Thursday in Annapolis likely will be placed on the Newseum’s Journalists Memorial next year, the head of the Freedom Forum Institute said Friday. “I would think that the nature of this, the tragedy, the...
by Cailin Crowe & Hannah Wiley | Jun 15, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON — At the end of almost every weekday, Sarah Hilmer drives 40 minutes from her Silicon Valley communications job to her home in Belmont, California, for three hours of mommy-and-daughter time. The new mom routinely uses those hours for a family run...
by Em Steck | Jun 15, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Exactly one year after a lone gunman opened fire on the Republican congressional baseball team and their aides, injuring four people, Republican Rep. Steve Scalise and his fellow members of Congress played at the annual Congressional baseball game,...
by Elizabeth Beyer | Jun 14, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The battle for control of the House of Representatives in November’s elections will be fought in 54 key battleground districts with a possible blue wave of Democrats heading to Washington, sent by voters angry with the behavior of President Donald Trump....
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by Caroline Tanner | Jun 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The courts need to make it easier for federal judiciary employees to file sexual harassment and misconduct complaints, a court official told the Senate judiciary committee Wednesday during a hearing on the findings of a Supreme Court task force. Supreme...
