![Lawmakers debate how to address racial economic disparities]()
by Courtney Degen | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and experts suggested ways Thursday that the federal government could reduce racial economic disparities, including increasing school choice, creating trust accounts for newborns and providing relatives of Black World War II veterans with...
![House subcommittee questions election security, voting rights]()
by Michael Korsh | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — With the 2022 midterm elections 10 months away, members of a House homeland security subcommittee on Thursday questioned the security of the 2020 presidential election and the upcoming midterms. During the hearing of the Cybersecurity,...
by Hannah Schoenbaum | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise on Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden for an “entire year of crises” and mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in advance of Biden’s afternoon White House news...
by Julia Mueller | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case brought by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who is challenging a federal campaign finance law that limits how much candidates can be repaid for loans they make to their political campaigns. Cruz...
![Death Penalty Protesters Want to “Break the Cycle of Violence”]()
by Catherine Buchaniec | Jan 19, 2022 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Police arrested 11 people who were protesting the death penalty outside the Hart Senate Office Building on Monday. The Abolitionist Action Committee was marking the 45th anniversary of the first execution in the modern era: Gary Gilmore was executed...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The fate of a Pissarro painting estimated at $40 million rests in the hands of the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, the justices heard oral arguments in a long-running case concerning ownership of the painting, which was seized by the Nazis from a Jewish family...
