Stories by Sarah D. Wire

  • Trip by Cotton put at $36,000

    U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton's recent trip to Israel with his wife was the third most expensive privately financed trip a member of Congress has taken in the past 15 …

  • Candidates file finance reports

    Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Conner Eldridge pulled in more than $400,000 in the three weeks since announcing his bid, topping the more than $359,000 broug…

  • Bill signed to rename courthouse for judge

    The Helena-West Helena Courthouse complex has been renamed for an Arkansas federal judge whose rulings in two cases shaped the debate about civil rights in the…

  • Boozman serves taste of the state

    WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., provided a taste of Arkansas to his Senate colleagues Thursday when he hosted a barbecue lunch in Washington, fea…

  • LR teen named 1 of 5 National Student Poets

    David Xiang, 17, of Little Rock read his poetry in public for the first time Thursday, debuting at the White House ceremony naming him a 2015 National Student …

  • House OKs Hill's bill to delay bank rebuke

    In a 303-121 vote, the U.S. House approved legislation Wednesday that would keep the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from penalizing banks and title compa…

  • Crawford floats Cuba trade bill

    U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., filed legislation Wednesday aimed at making it easier to export American agricultural goods to Cuba.

  • Defense cuts come back to haunt, Cotton says

    America's allies closely watch U.S. military spending, and cuts in funding put the United States at a disadvantage, Arkansas' U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said Tuesda…

  • 5 Arkansas firefighters added to D.C. memorial

    EMMITSBURG, Md. -- Seeing her husband recognized at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial on Sunday was overwhelming, Veronica Villalobos-Pogue said.

  • Cotton condemns Russian airstrikes

    Russian intervention in Syria this week is "a near catastrophe for U.S. foreign policy in the region, and really, around the world," U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ar…

  • Hill urges grace period for loan rules

    U.S. Rep. French Hill wants Congress to assure banks and title companies that the government will be lenient as they work under new rules starting Saturday tha…

  • Arkansans get in spirit of papal visit

    PHILADELPHIA — Hundreds of Arkansans took a nearly 24-hour bus trip to feed the homeless and celebrate their faith with hundreds of thousands of other Catholic…

  • Hill visits, touts lockup in Cuba

    WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., and other House members visited the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba on a trip organized by…

  • Hill's guest: 'It's just all fantastic'

    Monsignor Lawrence Frederick wouldn't say what grade U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., received in his class years ago, but the freshman congressman probably earn…

  • Bill advances on renaming of courthouse

    The U.S. House approved legislation Thursday to rename the Helena-West Helena federal courthouse complex for a federal judge who took on a white supremacy grou…

  • Arkansans line up for peek at pontiff

    Arkansans flocked to the White House, to Catholic University and to a parade route in downtown Washington on Wednesday, hoping to catch a glimpse of the leade…

  • Clinton booster reflects on state

    WASHINGTON -- A onetime Clinton opponent who has become a booster for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid repeatedly invokes Ar…

  • Cotton: Backing GOP candidate

    WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton on Wednesday brushed off a conservative pundit's suggestion that he be part of a third-party bid if Donald Trump is the GOP'…

  • Cotton ties Democrats, any Iran ills

    U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said Wednesday that President Barack Obama and Democrats who helped support the Iran nuclear deal "bear a direct political, moral and pers…

  • 6 ask review of wind-power line

    Arkansas' congressional delegation on Tuesday asked U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to examine whether the federal government or the state should get final …

  • Ex-POW visits WWII memorial

    = On Wednesday, former prisoner of war James "Leon" Gray, 90, of Malvern finally got to visit the national memorial recognizing those who fought in World War I…

  • Cotton: Israelis want assurance

    Israeli officials want Congress to pass legislation demonstrating that the U.S. still has a close relationship with Israel, in the event that the Iran nuclear …

  • Huckabee: Obey ruling from court 'if it's right'

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Sunday compared a Kentucky clerk in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples to objections to sla…

  • Huckabee sets Kentucky rally

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is to hold a rally Tuesday afternoon in support of a Kentucky county clerk who has been jailed for refusing to issue marriag…

  • Tickets for pope visit still available

    Arkansans have started to claim the hundreds of tickets available to watch Pope Francis' address to Congress later this month, but several members of Arkansas…

  • Huckabee backs clerk, says court can't set law

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Wednesday came out in support of a Kentucky county clerk's refusal to obey federal judges, saying she does not have "the …

  • Clinton circle talks Arkansas in emails

    Thousands of pages of emails from 2009 and 2010 show insights into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her inner circle, including notes about Arkans…

  • D.C. delegation home on break

    The six Republicans in Arkansas' congressional delegation were in Arkansas last week continuing their August recess. Lawmakers are to return to Washington on S…

  • Arkansans laud water-rule injunction

    Arkansas lawmakers and businesses on Friday praised a North Dakota federal judge's decision to temporarily block a controversial clean water rule from taking e…

  • Eldridge weighs bid for Senate

    Former U.S. Attorney Conner Eldridge is considering a run for U.S. Senate against incumbent John Boozman, he said in a statement Monday.

  • D.C. break leads to state travels

    WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., crossed the state visiting farms and agricultural businesses last week for his fifth annual "Ag Tour" during the …

  • Cotton talks up travels in Asia

    U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said Wednesday that meetings with foreign leaders during his recent trip to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan gave him "invaluable" informati…

  • Cotton to donate books to school

    U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton is scheduled to present more than 30 excess books from the Library of Congress on Thursday to Little Rock Central High School.

  • U.S. parks going with the flow in H2O sales

    Thirsty visitors to most national parks in Arkansas can either buy refillable bottles of water or stick to slurping from the drinking fountains. Only one of se…

  • Iowa State Fair a draw

    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Arkansas first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had the Iowa State Fair on their calendars last week.

  • Boozman favors a memorial wall

    U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., introduced legislation last week to add at the Korean War Memorial on the National Mall a "remembrance wall" listing the names …

  • Acxiom looks like a winner in '16 election

    As the 2016 presidential campaign begins to take shape, candidates are looking to target and influence specific voters, and some will turn to consumer data gat…

  • Rename of court in Helena advances

    Legislation to rename the Helena-West Helena Federal Courthouse complex for the nation's first Jewish federal judge was approved by the U.S. Senate on Wednesda…

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