by Carlotta Angiolillo | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday clashed over the safety of mifepristone, a drug used in conjunction with misoprostol for medical abortions, and Americans’ ability to procure the pills without an in-person medical consultation. During a...
by Brooke Sharp | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans and Democrats clashed Wednesday on who to blame for the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection during a hearing on the effectiveness of the FBI’s investigation into the pipe bombs planted outside of the Democratic and...
by Sarah Han and Anisha Iqbal | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –– National security experts and lawmakers argued against the sale of advanced artificial intelligence chips to China at a Wednesday House of Foreign Affairs hearing, warning that continued sales could undermine U.S. dominance in technology and spark an...
by Isabel Papp | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
SILVER SPRING, Md. – A chorus of demonstrators filled Gene Lynch Park with song on Monday evening, to recognize Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week. As the sun set, 16 members of the Rapid Response Choir, a volunteer...
by Cayla Labgold-Carroll | Jan 13, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Over 200 demonstrators stood outside the Supreme Court Tuesday morning, watching guest speakers, performances and lawmakers speak to their respective sides. Split down the center of the Supreme Court, a barrier divided the opposing sides of the...
by Chloe Park | Jan 13, 2026 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — House Republicans and Democrats disagreed Tuesday over how to address the nation’s ongoing child care crisis, as concerns mount following the Trump administration’s freezes on child care funding amid fraud investigations. During a House Subcommittee on...
by Melody Xu | Jan 13, 2026 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats shared bipartisan support for Earned Wage Access during a House hearing on Tuesday, but disagreed on whether it needs to be treated like credit — a distinction that could determine how much consumers pay in fees and how tightly...
by Isabel Papp | Jan 13, 2026 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Stars of private and government cybersecurity showed a united front on Tuesday, urging a congressional committee to develop more aggressive cyber capabilities with greater assistance from private companies. Charting a more muscular course in...
by Ben Shapiro | Jan 13, 2026 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared poised to uphold state laws barring transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports after hearing oral arguments in two cases Tuesday. The cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., challenge Idaho’s...
by David Sun | Jan 13, 2026 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether a federal contractor could move a case from state to federal court, after a state court ruled Chevron, alongside other oil companies, had to pay $745 million to a Louisiana parish. In the original...
by Isabella Jacob | Dec 17, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In May, Marjorie Ziefert and Chuck Kieffer realized that people in their community were disappearing, taken by immigration enforcement to the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Mich. The retired Ann Arbor residents started participating in...
by Desiree Luo | Dec 16, 2025 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — As Gotham FC and the Washington Spirit sought to get on the board during the NWSL Championship on Nov. 22, both teams’ respective supporters’ groups faced one another from opposite sides of PayPal Park. But when the clock hit 51:00, the stadium united in...
