by Kimberly Jin and Thomas Ilalaole | Jul 24, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Kate Brown of Gurnee, Illinois, will never forget the Monday morning in May 2005 when she received a phone call and was told that her 27-year-old son was hit by a truck when he was driving in a car in Round Lake, Illinois. The truck driver had fallen...
by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 19, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Democratic presidential candidate from Minnesota, presented her plan for the first 100 days in office, at the National Press Club on Tuesday. Her first step would include signing back into the International Climate Change...
by Amanda Horowitz | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan told a House committee Thursday “incendiary and overwrought attacks on the men and women securing our border” are “damaging,” saying border agents are dealing with an “unprecedented...
by Ariana Puzzo and Ebony JJ Curry | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Susan Kent Avjian, whose parents are Holocaust survivors, says she refuses to stay silent about immigrant detention facilities at the U.S. southern border because it reminds her of the path that led to the genocide of Jewish Europeans by German Nazis in...
by Noah Broder | Jul 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Friday’s edition of the House Judiciary Committee’s attempts to learn more about the implications of special counsel Robert Mueller report on 2016 election interference followed a familiar partisan path of Republican calls to move on and Democrats’...
by Kelly Rissman | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Yazmin Juárez, a Guatemalan asylum seeker, told a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee that her 19-month-old daughter died because of medical negligence at a federal detention center in Texas last year, causing several Democrats on the committee to...
