by Sara Wilson | Feb 24, 2020 | Politics
1. The White House is expected to ask Congress for emergency funding to battle the coronavirus sometime this week. The Washington Post reported that the spending package could teeter close to $1 billion. For context, Congress approved a $5.4 billion package to fight...
by Silvia Martelli | Feb 23, 2020 | Politics
LAS VEGAS — “I am here because my vote can make a difference,” Octavio Barrera Soto said in Spanish as he walked into a caucus venue in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood on Saturday morning. Barrera Soto migrated from Mexico to the U.S. in 1985. A native...
by Silvia Martelli | Feb 23, 2020 | Politics
LAS VEGAS — Climate change will be among the top priorities for Democratic voters in Nevada as the state begins to caucus Saturday. Climate and environmental protection is a “very important” or the “most important” issue for 86 percent of...
by Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, HyoJung Kim and Mark Satter | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Politics
If 2019 was a fraught year for abortion access in the United States, with state legislatures passing 59 restrictions on the procedure, a clash over contraception is emerging in 2020. From an impending Supreme Court case to attempts in state legislatures, the increased...
by Sara Wilson | Feb 18, 2020 | Politics, Topics
Carolyn Bourdeaux lost the 2018 House race in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District by 433 votes. Despite the fact that the district hasn’t had a Democrat representative since the 1990s, it was the closest race in the country, with five-term Republican incumbent Rob...
by Sam Cabral | Feb 7, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Politics
WATERLOO, Iowa, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Before the results of the Iowa caucuses trickled in, one of the main concerns for the campaign of former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg was his lack of support from minority voters. Buttigieg hoped to repair that with the...
