Monthly Archive: March 2017
The Senate Judiciary Committee continued the confirmation process for high level posts in the U.S. Department of Justice Tuesday, with a joint hearing for Deputy Attorney General and Associate Attorney General nominee. The hearings...
Two villages living adjacent to the Indian Ocean in the southern coast of Kenya are improving their livelihoods after earning money from selling carbon credit from mangrove trees to international environmental organizations. Diana Wanyonyi...
The Trump administration is taking a second crack at using an executive order to block people from half a dozen countries from entering the United States. The order signed today – and set to...
Sessions, amid controversy, recuses himself from investigations into presidential campaign New Secy. of the Interior moves to reverse Obama-era environmental protections Trump weaves immigration through speech to joint session of Congress Program travels the...
Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Ryan Zinke as head of the Department of the Interior. The Montana Republican got right to work, wasting no time reversing an Obama-era ban on the use of lead fishing...
Calls for an independent prosecutor to probe the Trump administration’s relationship with Russia are growing, as are calls for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stand down. Just weeks into the job, Sessions is now...
In another major reversal on civil rights issues, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions did an about face on voter ID this week. Just one day before an important hearing in...
In his speech before a Joint Session of Congress Tuesday night, President Donald Trump kept immigration enforcement front and center, framing it as a law and order approach. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download...
Thursday marks the first anniversary of the murder of the prominent environmentalist and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres in Honduras. The crime sparked international condemnation and a reconsideration of U.S. military aid to the...