by Aidan Johnstone | Mar 25, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – As digital platforms redefine news consumption habits, several outlets face challenges in maintaining trust from partisan audiences. The internet and social media have intensified sensationalism and polarization. With Super Tuesday results setting...
by Aidan Johnstone | Mar 13, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – For years, US venture capital firms have invested in Chinese technology companies linked to China’s military and persecution of the Uyghur people. Now, the recent glare of the spotlight from Congress and declining public opinion of China has prompted...
by Aidan Johnstone | Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — More than 40 pro-Palestinian groups organized the “People’s State of the Union” outside the White House hours before President Biden’s State of the Union address. According to protesters, “the state of our union is genocide.” “We are here to give a...
by Aidan Johnstone | Feb 28, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Justices seemed poised to remand Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski to the Ninth Circuit Court – a case related to a $1.2 million Dogecoin giveaway in 2021. The lawsuit originated from a claim that Coinbase – a cryptocurrency exchange platform – did not...
by Aidan Johnstone | Feb 25, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Many South Carolina voters arrived at their usual voting locations on Saturday to find no other voters there, which was an unexpected sight on the day of the state’s Republican primary election. These locations weren’t just empty, however – they were...
by Aidan Johnstone | Feb 6, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The Small Business Administration (SBA) is adjusting standards that determine which businesses can access government contracts and benefits designated for small businesses. These policy changes may alter small businesses’ competition and access to...
by Aidan Johnstone | Jan 31, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers slammed top executives of large tech companies on Wednesday for not doing enough to prevent online exploitation of children as protesters helped pack the audience sharing victims’ pictures and grim statistics of the problem. “There is blood on...
by Aidan Johnstone | Jan 24, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Intellectual property experts told Congress members on Tuesday that the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) is essential to encourage more inventors to apply and get their patents approved, adding that the act would benefit American innovation...
by Aidan Johnstone | Jan 18, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – “Shark Tank” investor and venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary urged House members on Thursday to oppose a set of proposed bank regulations that he said would harm small businesses’ access to lending. The set of regulations, titled Basel III, would...
by Aidan Johnstone | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Country music artist and rapper Jason “Jelly Roll” DeFord urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass legislation to help combat the fentanyl crisis that is gripping the country. The Grammy nominee was arrested at 14 years old and spent the following years...
