Monthly Archive: March 2017
The State Dept announced Friday that it has issued a Presidential permit allowing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to begin. The project was put on ice in Obama’s second term and then revived...
Thursday marks seven years since former President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. It’s also the day that the GOP predetermined they would bring a bill to the House floor that...
A newspaper reporter in Chihuahua, Mexico was killed this morning, becoming the second journalist murdered in Mexico this week. Shannon Young reports. Download Audio Veteran journalist Miroslava Breach was shot eight times in front...
Five years of peace talks aimed to end the decades-long civil war in Myanmar have still not achieved a lasting peace between the central government and marginalized ethnic minorities. Rebels remain skeptical of the...
U.S. government policies and practices on immigration, indigenous rights and the treatment of asylum seekers were the subject of hearings today at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a body of the Organization of...
Editor’s Note: The introduction to this story was updated to include the fiilbuster threat. Another Congressional show-down may be ahead regarding confirmation of President Trump’s nominee to fill out the bench at the U.S....
The Directors of both the FBI and the NSA appeared before the House Select Intelligence Committee Monday for the first public hearing by intelligence agency officials on Russian interference in the 2016 election. FSRN’s...
With revised travel ban on hold, the White House requests funds to expand deportations while slashing social spending Los Angeles students to use theater to prepare for anti-immigrant crackdowns Salvadoran deportees warn of looming...
Legislatures in states with ongoing – or planned – pipeline projects are moving to increase penalties for certain types of protests aimed at opposing pipelines. The governor of South Dakota signed a bill into...
On the heels of a court defeat blocking what critics call the Muslim Ban 2.0, the Trump Administration has presented the blueprint of its 2018 budget request while requesting additional funds for the current...