by Alicia Tang | Feb 1, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left its key interest rate unchanged for the fourth consecutive meeting, with Chair Jerome Powell quashing hope of rate cuts in March. The unanimous vote by the 12-member, rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee called...
by Emma Sullivan | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — In an effort to lower drug costs, Medicare will begin price negotiations with drug manufacturers on Thursday for the 10 most costly prescriptions covered by Medicare. It marks the first step in historic negotiations under the Medicare Drug Price...
by Lindsey Byman | Feb 1, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured
MANCHESTER, N.H. – After years of political leaders making unfounded claims about election fraud, many voters in the U.S. still doubt the security of elections. A CNN entrance poll to this year’s Iowa caucuses found that 66% of Republican participants did not think...
by Simone Garber | Feb 1, 2024 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Health experts on Wednesday urged Congress to take more action to address the growing problem of unaffordable health care and deteriorating quality of care as spending is expected to continue to rise. Health care spending rates grew 4.1% to reach $4.5...
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 Maria Heim | Jan 31, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – A recent deal between the National Football League and NBCUniversal’s Peacock to stream a wild-card game solely on that platform has prompted lawmakers to further examine the rise of sports streaming services. On Wednesday, the House Commerce...
by Braedyn Speight | Jan 31, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) introduced a bill on Thursday to add a citizenship question to the 2030 census to stop non-citizens from being counted in congressional districts. The legislation called the Equal Representation Act is rooted in the idea that...
by Ellie Skelly | Jan 31, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON- Some Senate Republicans are backing away from border negotiations, responding to calls from former President Donald Trump to abandon the deal. For weeks Congress has been working to pass a funding bill that bundled aid for the war in Ukraine and border...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Experts in the commercial shipping industries outlined the ever-increasing humanitarian and economic costs of recent Iran-backed Houthi militant strikes on American ships positioned in the Red Sea during a subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. The continuing...
by Lily Ogburn | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned lawmakers on Tuesday that China is increasingly collaborating with nations hostile to the United States and urged lawmakers to provide more support to help Taiwan...
by Emma Sullivan | Jan 27, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured
HAMPTON, N.H. — President Joe Biden easily won the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday as a write-in candidate. Biden won 64% of the vote, beating nearly two dozen opponents, including Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and Marianne Williamson. The Democratic...
by Charlotte Ehrlich and Clare Zhang | Jan 25, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Thursday stressed the urgency of renewing the National Flood Insurance Program, with reforms to rein in ever-increasing premiums that are becoming harder for homeowners to afford. The Senate Banking Committee is working to reauthorize the...
