Warmbier’s Parents Praise Bill Seeking Further North Korea Sanctions
The parents of Otto Warmbier, an American student who died after 17 months in a North Korean prison, hailed on Wednesday new congres...
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Democrats Threaten to Boycott Debate Over Labor Dispute
All seven Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for next week's debate threatened on Friday to skip the event if an...
Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Combating Campus Anti-Semitism
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he signed to help combat anti-Semitism in the U. S., during a Hanukkah reception...
Trumps Signs Stopgap Spending Bill
President Trump on Thursday signed a short-term funding bill, averting the threat of a government shutdown until next month. Trump...
US House Panel Backs Marijuana Decriminalization
A divided U.S. House committee approved a proposal Wednesday to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level, a vote that wa...
Pelosi Seeks Trade Pact Passage by Year’s End
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said a breakthrough in talks with the Trump administration on the trade pact with Mexico...
House Democrats Pass Election Security Bill
The House approved legislation Wednesday to better protect the country's elections from foreign interference, the third major b...
America’s Mayors Agree on What Needs Fixing
Few public officials are as close to the ground as America’s mayors and, in general, they seem to agree on what needs fixing in the...
Bipartisan Group of US Lawmakers Opposes Plan to Freeze Foreign Aid
Some material for this report came from RFE/RL. Republican and Democratic lawmakers joined forces to oppose moves by the White Hous...
US Mayors Call for New Gun Control Measures
More than 200 U.S. mayors demanded Thursday that the Senate return from its summer recess to approve gun control legislation in the...
US Mass Shootings Renew Fight Over Gun Legislation
Two horrific mass shootings in the United States that killed 31 people have set the stage for a titanic political and legislative fi...
