Past Articles by Liz Halloran
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Oklahoma's GOP Senators Find Themselves In Tornado Aid Bind Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe have become the faces of pushback on federal emergency spending. Now the deadly and devastating tornado in their home state has put them in an awkward position. |
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Oklahoma's GOP Senators Find Themselves In Tornado Aid Bind Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe have become the faces of pushback on federal emergency spending. Now the deadly and devastating tornado in their home state has put them in an awkward position. |
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Oklahoma's GOP Senators Find Themselves In Tornado Aid Bind Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe have become the faces of pushback on federal emergency spending. Now the deadly and devastating tornado in their home state has put them in an awkward position. |
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Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers The Model S from electric car manufacturer Tesla has been named Motor Trend Car of the Year. But the company's business model is under attack by a formidable foe: the National Automobile Dealers Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington. |
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Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers The Model S from electric car manufacturer Tesla has been named Motor Trend Car of the Year. But the company's business model is under attack by a formidable foe: the National Automobile Dealers Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington. |
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Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers The Model S from electric car manufacturer Tesla has been named Motor Trend Car of the Year. But the company's business model is under attack by a formidable foe: the National Automobile Dealers Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington. |
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Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers The Model S from electric car manufacturer Tesla has been named Motor Trend Car of the Year. But the company's business model is under attack by a formidable foe: the National Automobile Dealers Association, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington. |
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When The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too More than 300 freed abductees are part of an online community they call the RooterHood, where they can share their stories, their fears, and get help. |
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On Military Sexual Assault Issue, A New Era for An Old Committee Women on the Senate and House Armed Services committees are leveraging their clout in response to the problem of sexual assaults in the military. |
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On Military Sexual Assault Issue, A New Era for An Old Committee Women on the Senate and House Armed Services committees are leveraging their clout in response to the problem of sexual assaults in the military. |
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Poll: Obama Approval Up, Effectiveness Down; GOP In Doldrums Pew survey finds Americans place gridlock blame largely on GOP, but there's good news and bad news for Obama, Democrats and Republicans |
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Poll: Obama Approval Up, Effectiveness Down; GOP In Doldrums Pew survey finds Americans place gridlock blame largely on GOP, but there's good news and bad news for Obama, Democrats and Republicans |
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Joy, And New Hope, For All Families Of The Missing For parents of missing children, the world can be filled with the most horrific imaginings. Those imaginings were replaced by hope Monday when news broke that three young women were rescued in Cleveland. "We were like a bunch of little kids on Christmas morning," one mother said. |
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Bulletproof Whiteboards And The Marketing Of School Safety It's not just the conversation about guns and school safety that's changed since the Newtown elementary school massacre — it's also the plethora of products being marketed to school districts that are typically cash-strapped but desperate to prove they're doing something to provide better security. |
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Bulletproof Whiteboards And The Marketing Of School Safety It's not just the conversation about guns and school safety that's changed since the Newtown elementary school massacre — it's also the plethora of products being marketed to school districts that are typically cash-strapped but desperate to prove they're doing something to provide better security. |
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Bulletproof Whiteboards And The Marketing Of School Safety It's not just the conversation about guns and school safety that's changed since the Newtown elementary school massacre — it's also the plethora of products being marketed to school districts that are typically cash-strapped but desperate to prove they're doing something to provide better security. |
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Bulletproof Whiteboards And The Marketing Of School Safety It's not just the conversation about guns and school safety that's changed since the Newtown elementary school massacre — it's also the plethora of products being marketed to school districts that are typically cash-strapped but desperate to prove they're doing something to provide better security. |
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Personality Or Party? Mass. Senate Race Shows Value Of Both When Scott Brown decided not to seek the Republican nomination in the state's special election to replace Sen. John Kerry, it left political observers predicting a very easy Democratic win in the blue state. Republican and Democratic experts discuss what's going on in Massachusetts. |
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Personality Or Party? Mass. Senate Race Shows Value Of Both When Scott Brown decided not to seek the Republican nomination in the state's special election to replace Sen. John Kerry, it left political observers predicting a very easy Democratic win in the blue state. Republican and Democratic experts discuss what's going on in Massachusetts. |
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Personality Or Party? Mass. Senate Race Shows Value Of Both When Scott Brown decided not to seek the Republican nomination in the state's special election to replace Sen. John Kerry, it left political observers predicting a very easy Democratic win in the blue state. Republican and Democratic experts discuss what's going on in Massachusetts. |
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Palmetto Faceoff: Sanford, Colbert Busch In Spirited Debate The Republican's bid to salvage a political career and the Democrat's effort to start one collided in a vigorous debate just eight days before South Carolina voters decide whom to send to Washington. The fast-paced hour in Charleston, S.C., marked the only face-to-face meeting of the candidates. |
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Palmetto Faceoff: Sanford, Colbert Busch In Spirited Debate The Republican's bid to salvage a political career and the Democrat's effort to start one collided in a vigorous debate just eight days before South Carolina voters decide who to send to Washington. The fast-paced hour in Charleston, S.C., marked the only face-to-face meeting of the candidates. |
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Palmetto Faceoff: Sanford, Colbert Busch In Spirited Debate The Republican's bid to salvage a political career and the Democrat's effort to start one collided in a vigorous debate just eight days before South Carolina voters decide whom to send to Washington. The fast-paced hour in Charleston, S.C., marked the only face-to-face meeting of the candidates. |
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Max Baucus Says He Was Montana's 'Hired Hand' On Gun Vote In an interview with NPR's Robert Siegel, Montana Sen. Max Baucus says he broke with Democrats on gun legislation because he represents the wishes of Montanans and agrees with them. |
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Max Baucus Says He Was Montana's 'Hired Hand' On Gun Vote In an interview with NPR's Robert Siegel, Montana Sen. Max Baucus says he broke with Democrats on gun legislation because he represents the wishes of Montanans and agrees with them. |
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The Meaning Of Boston: Depends On Your Angle, Literally The opportunistic political sentiment of never letting a crisis go to waste has been reframed since the Boston bombings by those seizing on the attack as certain evidence of their positions. But a national security expert warns against the inclination. "It's difficult to make law by anecdote," he says.. |
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The Meaning Of Boston: Depends On Your Angle, Literally The opportunistic political sentiment of never letting a crisis go to waste has been reframed since the Boston bombings by those seizing on the attack as certain evidence of their positions. But a national security expert warns against the inclination. "It's difficult to make law by anecdote," he says.. |
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Bush Sees Approval Hike, But Trumanesque Recovery? Unlikely A poll released days before the opening of George W. Bush's presidential library in Dallas is serving as fodder for some sequestered GOP nostalgia about his two terms in the White House. |
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Bush Sees Approval Hike, But Trumanesque Recovery? Unlikely A poll released days before the opening of George W. Bush's presidential library in Dallas is serving as fodder for some sequestered GOP nostalgia about his two terms in the White House. |
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A Rand Paul White House Path Complicated By Dad's Legacy The Kentucky senator says he's "considering" a 2016 run for the White House. Backers tout the built-in support and money networks established during 2008 and 2012 presidential runs by his father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. But others view the dad's libertarian legacy as a decidedly mixed bag. |
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A Rand Paul White House Path Complicated By Dad's Legacy The Kentucky senator says he's "considering" a 2016 run for the White House. Backers tout the built-in support and money networks established during 2008 and 2012 presidential runs by his father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. But others view the dad's libertarian legacy as a decidedly mixed bag. |
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Tragedy In Real Time: Living A Terrible Week, Vicariously The Boston Marathon bombings. The fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. The defeat of gun control legislation. We absorbed these past six days in an instantaneous, nonstop, firsthand-but-once-removed way that now defines our communal experiences. |
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Boston Bombing Suspects Are Brothers Living In U.S. For Years The two suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are brothers from a former Soviet republic who were in the United States legally for years and lived together in a Cambridge, Mass., apartment. |
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Boston Bombing Suspects Are Brothers Living In U.S. For Years The two suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are brothers from a former Soviet republic who were in the United States legally for years and lived together in a Cambridge, Mass., apartment. |
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Boston Bombing Suspects Are Brothers Living In U.S. For Years The two suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are brothers from a former Soviet republic who were in the United States legally for years and lived together in a Cambridge, Mass., apartment. |
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Boston Bombing Suspects Are Brothers Living In U.S. For Years The two suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are brothers from a former Soviet republic who were in the United States legally for years and lived together in a Cambridge, Mass., apartment. |
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Gang Of 8 Champion Plan, Declare 'Year Of Immigration Reform' Bipartisan bonhomie broke out Thursday afternoon when four Democratic and four Republican senators made a case for their comprehensive immigration overhaul proposal. "America is an idea; nobody owns it," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "We've got to create order out of chaos." |
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Gang Of 8 Champion Plan, Declare 'Year Of Immigration Reform' Bipartisan bonhomie broke out Thursday afternoon when four Democratic and four Republican senators made a case for their comprehensive immigration overhaul proposal. "America is an idea; nobody owns it," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "We've got to create order out of chaos." |
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Gang Of 8 Champion Plan, Declare 'Year Of Immigration Reform' Bipartisan bonhomie broke out Thursday afternoon when four Democratic and four Republican senators made a case for their comprehensive immigration overhaul proposal. "America is an idea; nobody owns it," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "We've got to create order out of chaos." |
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Security Expert: Investigators Seek Bomber's 'Signature' An expert on terrorism and security says investigators in Boston are looking for minute clues in bomb debris that could point to a suspect, and also turning to race spectators who might have captured evidence. "That was one of the most photographed sites on the planet yesterday," he says. |
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Security Expert: Investigators Seek Bomber's 'Signature' An expert on terrorism and security says investigators in Boston are looking for minute clues in bomb debris that could point to a suspect, and also turning to race spectators who might have captured evidence. "That was one of the most photographed sites on the planet yesterday," he says. |
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Howard Students Question Rand Paul's Vision Of GOP Sen. Rand Paul went to one of the top historically black colleges in the nation and tried to make a case for his Republican Party as a continuing defender of the civil rights of African-Americans. The Kentucky Republican got credit for the effort, but not always his message. |
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Howard Students Question Rand Paul's Vision Of GOP Sen. Rand Paul went to one of the top historically black colleges in the nation and tried to make a case for his Republican Party as a continuing defender of the civil rights of African-Americans. The Kentucky Republican got credit for the effort, but not always his message. |
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Immigration Overhaul 'Feels Unstoppable Now,' Backers Say Thousands of supporters will descend on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. This time, as differences are worked out among interested parties, the optimism is more palpable than it was in past attempts. |
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Immigration Overhaul 'Feels Unstoppable Now,' Backers Say Thousands of supporters will descend on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. This time, as differences are worked out among interested parties, the optimism is more palpable than it was in past attempts. |
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Gun Control Prospects Recede As Politics Swamp Momentum Nearly four months after the massacre of young children and educators in a Connecticut elementary school, federal efforts to enact comprehensive gun control legislation appear to be in jeopardy. And while a few blue states have passed tougher new laws, many red states are pushing in the opposite direction. |
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Gun Control Prospects Recede As Politics Swamp Momentum Nearly four months after the massacre of young children and educators in a Connecticut elementary school, federal efforts to enact comprehensive gun control legislation appear to be in jeopardy. And while a few blue states have passed tougher new laws, many red states are pushing in the opposite direction. |
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Expert: Recent Attacks On Justice Community 'Really Unprecedented' Two county prosecutors fatally shot in Texas. Colorado's top prison official gunned down. And a dozen more members of the U.S. justice community — ranging from police to judges — victims of targeted killings since the beginning of the decade. An investigator who studies such crimes says he's worried about a possible trend. |
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Expert: Recent Attacks On Justice Community 'Really Unprecedented' Two county prosecutors fatally shot in Texas. Colorado's top prison official gunned down. And a dozen more members of the U.S. justice community — ranging from police to judges — victims of targeted killings since the beginning of the decade. An investigator who studies such crimes says he's worried about a possible trend. |
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Expert: Recent Attacks On Justice Community 'Really Unprecedented' Two county prosecutors fatally shot in Texas. Colorado's top prison official gunned down. And a dozen more members of the U.S. justice community — ranging from police to judges — victims of targeted killings since the beginning of the decade. An investigator who studies such crimes says he's worried about a possible trend. |
