by Sarah Lin | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Embassy Row opened its doors to candy-seeking trick-or-treaters on Thursday as children of all ages celebrated Halloween. While some embassies, such as Indonesia’s, offered imported candies from their country, others opted for more common American...
by Caroline Killilea | Oct 31, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden held a trick-or-treating event at the White House on Wednesday for the final time during Biden’s presidency. The First Lady dressed in a panda costume, honoring the two giant pandas that arrived at the...
by Marisa Guerra Echeverria and Audrey Pachuta | Oct 31, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — At Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s set overshadowed the lineup of warm-up acts, drawing sharp criticism for a series of jokes that targeted various communities, including incendiary remarks about Puerto...
by Erica Schmitt | Oct 31, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
In this fourth episode of Point by Point, we examine the sharp divides in abortion policy between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. With insights from legal expert Amanda Barrow, we dive into the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade,...
by Ananya Chag and Coby Potischman | Oct 30, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris led with criticism of former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol in her closing pitch to the American people on Tuesday, with a week to go until election day. Harris gave a 30-minute...
by Sonya Dymova | Oct 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Congressional delays in passing spending and other legislation undermines U.S. positioning on the global stage and invigorates “competitors,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the Foreign Service Institute on Wednesday. “Look, if we’re...
by Marisa Guerra Echeverria | Oct 30, 2024 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — For South Texas communities, the southern border is not a political tool making headlines but a feature of citizens’ everyday lives. South Texas boasts some of the most predominantly Hispanic counties in the state, and has a continuous exchange with their...
by Erica Schmitt and Hannah Webster | Oct 30, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris drew sharp contrasts between herself and former President Donald Trump during a speech dubbed her “closing argument” on Tuesday in an appeal to voters a week before the election. At the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., Harris...
by Hannah Webster | Oct 29, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Around 80 protesters gathered to criticize the World Bank and International Monetary Fund for climate and development policies on Friday. Representatives from various climate action groups met at Edward Murrow Park to hear from global advocacy leaders...
by Coby Potischman | Oct 28, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics, Religion
WASHINGTON — With less than two weeks until election day, former President Donald Trump doubled down on his efforts to court religious voters on Wednesday, holding a “Believers and Ballots” town hall where he urged Evangelicals to vote. At the event in Zebulon, Ga.,...
by Emma Richman | Oct 28, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump has ramped up media appearances targeting Latino voters in the weeks before the election, participating in a roundtable with supporters and community leaders on Tuesday, as well as a town hall on Univision on Oct. 16. The...
by Hannah Webster | Oct 24, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Only nine years after the signing of the Paris Agreement — a landmark treaty promoting international cooperation to combat climate change — global carbon emissions are out of line with Paris’ global warming targets, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
