• Trump administration proposes merging Education and Labor departments

    Trump administration proposes merging Education and Labor departments

    Jun 21, 2018 05:49 PM EST

    ... University, said various reorganization plans have been hashed and rehashed for decades but have ultimately failed because of stubborn resistance in Congress. "You're not just asking members of Congress to reorganize agencies, you're asking them to reorganize the appropriations process and give up their subcommittee positions," Light said ...

  • How will the FBI adjust after the Clinton email probe report?

    How will the FBI adjust after the Clinton email probe report?

    Jun 14, 2018 10:40 PM EST

    ... was going on, but ultimately the people doing the work based their final assessment on the facts, the law, and so forth. So it's asking us to believe the best, rather than the worst, isn't it? John Carlin: Well, I don't think it's just asking us ...

  • Why defendants plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit

    Why defendants plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit

    May 30, 2018 10:35 PM EST

    ... and Juan 19. Juan Johnson: I was sitting on the porch with my girlfriend when a friend of mine came running down the street. He just asked me come down there to break up a fight. When he told me what was going on, I thought it would be a ...

  • Trump floats DMZ as location for North Korea meeting

    Trump floats DMZ as location for North Korea meeting

    Apr 30, 2018 01:47 PM EST

    ... would Peace House/Freedom House, on the Border of North & South Korea, be a more Representative, Important and Lasting site than a third party country? Just asking!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/990928644100034561 Trump said over the weekend that the time and location of the meeting with Kim are being ...

  • Displaced Puerto Ricans, now living in hotels, may soon lose housing

    Displaced Puerto Ricans, now living in hotels, may soon lose housing

    Feb 18, 2018 09:10 PM EST

    ... the state’s request. Malloy says the state could use even more case-workers, plus bilingual educators, and funds for affordable housing. Meanwhile, the Governor just asked for 400-thousand dollars in the state’s proposed budget to support Maria evacuees. But it may not be enough to cover the ...

  • Emails show Pruitt monitored changes to EPA webpages on climate

    Emails show Pruitt monitored changes to EPA webpages on climate

    Feb 02, 2018 03:01 PM EST

    ... just finishing up. Should happen this week," replied J.P. Freire, then EPA's associate administrator for public affairs and a former GOP congressional staffer. "Just asking because he is asking ...," Ferguson emailed back. Versions of the edited pages are still available on an archived "snapshot" of EPA's website ...

  • Texas prepares for ‘life-threatening’ Hurricane Harvey

    Texas prepares for ‘life-threatening’ Hurricane Harvey

    Aug 25, 2017 10:35 PM EST

    ??re just asking people to clear path for first responders and to make sure that the roads are clear as evacuees continue to come here. We've had 700 of them come already that are sheltered and we have many more that are coming through our area or stopping ...

  • Growing number of Georgia students have debt but no college degree

    Growing number of Georgia students have debt but no college degree

    Aug 23, 2017 08:57 PM EST

    ... can be investing in financial aid,” said Debbie Cochrane, vice president of The Institute for College Access and Success, a national nonprofit. “Folks aren’t just asking for higher education to be supported because it’s a nice thing. We know that our society, our workforce, our health – our societal ...

  • Shields and Brooks on GOP’s health care bill gridlock, Trump tweet backlash

    Shields and Brooks on GOP’s health care bill gridlock, Trump tweet backlash

    Jun 30, 2017 11:22 PM EST

    Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the difficulty Republican leaders are having getting enough support for the Senate health care bill, including tense relations between the White House and Congress, plus the political reaction to President Trump’s tweets about two cable...

  • Rivals on the baseball field, these congressmen share solidarity after shooting

    Rivals on the baseball field, these congressmen share solidarity after shooting

    Jun 14, 2017 11:38 PM EST

    Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., managers of the two congressional baseball teams, talk with Judy Woodruff about what it was like to be practicing on the field as a shooting targeting Republican lawmakers unfolded Wednesday in Alexandria, Va.